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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Have done, and my original patrol went according to that list, so I should be fine. Had to use time compression anyway, as I wasn't going to make that trip in real time. Got the green tick. I'm not worried anyway. As I said, currently just checking it out.
Will do, thanks. Another thing I see: I noticed it in screenshots, but actually playing reconfirmed it - the bow and stern foam is white, but the foam in the water is a different color, sort of a greyish off-white. I'm surprised no one has mentioned it before; to me it's rather obvious.
When I talked to Dan in Houston three years ago he told me the new game (unspecified at that time) would give names to the ships you sank, something similar to what Commander does for SH3. SH4 is so much more sophisticated in that area that I would have been able to make lists for individual nations had there been an SH4 Commander, or something similar. Privateer was going to do that for me back when GWX4 was still in the works. I was hoping SH5 would do that naturally, so all I would have to do is apply the research I've already done. The result would be ending a patrol with the names of the ships you had sunk, and they would be nation-specific, that is a Greek ship of a certain class would get the name of a real ship of that size. Of course there are so few ship types in SH5 right now, but I keep hoping for a breakthrough.
So, basically, that's the real reason I finally got the game.
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I think I know what you mean. Sometimes when you sink a ship, you'll intercept its SOS transmission. This will always be a ship name (not type, a name e.g. 'Indomitable') and a lat/long, 'going down at' kind of transmission (and I've not seen a name repeat yet).
TDW's UI mod will alter (reduce) the frequency at which you intercept these transmissions, but they are there.
