I'm at a loss as to why it works as it does.
I see the empty frames when I first come into this thread too. But right clicking on the frame for the picture and select shop picture makes them appear.
The linked text from the very first picture is...
https://photos-6.dropbox.com/i/o/JwD...3-11_00004.jpg
That tells me the picture is at dropbox. It's in a public area.
So could someone go to the dropbox link and pull up the picture that shows the 16 ship convoy and get it to full screen and right click it to show properties then copy and paste those properties back here to see if they match what I posted?
It might give us a clue as to why it works the way it does.
But it doesn't matter really... The problems have taken all of the wind of out this thread anyway. I guess it's fitting the tradition of Silent Hunter,... full of bugs.