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Kim made a patrol report generator that got the data from the various game files to produce a patrol report for the Pacific Thunder Campaign.
Your name, rank, boat, mission, weather, # torpedoes fired including results of ships sunk, dud, miss, hit. Also all commands & warnings so the skipper could reconstruct a patrol report from the data at the end of their patrol.

Along with the Patrol Report Generator he made TBox which could select the patrol zone, change the boat name, the date of departure, etc.
This TBox was specific to another set of files made by another member which re-made the campaign layers to be historically accurate, for example all special missions were the missions actually conducted during the War. 99% of all forward bases were also created along with appropriate traffic.

These campaign layers came with a license that they be destroyed when no longer in use - probably when the member left the PTC. They were heavily researched and well made. They were called the "Cycles mod". Too bad the creator licensed it like that. I really liked the Cycles mod and with a random number generator and an XL doc to select the mission, a single person could have their own little realistic campaign.

As you know, the game selects what mission you get by the ID number of the mission so Kim's TBox selected missions using missions from the Cycles mod. (cycles mod was so name because there were 15 cycles of three months each to complete the war from Dec 7th 41 - Aug 15, 1945).

So, that's the big picture. TBox set up the assigned patrol and after the mission was conducted the Report generator gathered data for the patrol report. Pretty cool.

Art