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Svonne · 08-25-13, 12:24 AM

Career

The Career mode is also known as the "dynamic campaign." In career mode, you perform a series of patrols throughout the course of the war.
Table of contents [hide]
1 Objectives
1.1 Career progression
1.2 Saving, reloading, and deleting careers
1.3 Repairing careers

Objectives

Unlike the single mission mode, you will not receive specific objectives, such as "sink the King George V battleship." All of your orders will be to patrol a specified grid square for 24 hours. The 24 hours do not have to be consecutive, so you can pursue ship contacts outside of the grid, and then return later to complete your patrol.

After you patrol your assigned grid, you are then free to navigate freely wherever you please for as long as your fuel and torpedoes hold out.

You are free to engage any enemy targets you encounter before, during, or after your patrol. You can terminate the patrol at any point and automatically return to base or, preferably, you can sail back to port, and terminate the patrol "in the harbour".

Check the Career Timeline for the availability of U-boat types, weapons, ports, flotillas, and neutrality/enmity of nations.
Career progression

As you complete each patrol in your career, you will receive several things in reward for your successes.

Renown - This is a measure of your fame. The more successful you are, the more renown you are awarded. You can use and renown earned as a form of currency to "buy" certain improvements for your U-Boat. These range from better crew, to equipment upgrades and even entirely new U-Boats. See the Career Timeline for lists of what is available and how much renown it costs. Successes which gain you renown include:
Reaching your patrol area
Patrolling that area for 24 hours
Number of enemy ships sunk
Tonnage of enemy ships sunk
Aeroplanes shot down
Loss of Renown - If you have any failures, these will deduct from your gained renown. Failures include:
Sinking neutral ships
Sinking axis ships
Shooting friendly aeroplanes
Wounded crew
Killed crew
Damage to your U-Boat

Promotions - If you are particularly successful, you may be allowed to award promotions to members of your crew. If you have sufficient renown, you yourself may be promotoed.

Medals - If you are particularly successful, you may be allowed to allocate medals to members of your crew. It is possible that you yourself may also receive such decorations.

Qualifications - At the conclusion of each patrol, you will be able to allocate one "qualification badge" to any Officer or Non-commissioned Officer of your crew. For a list of available qualifications, see Crew Management.

Saving, reloading, and deleting careers

To save your career in a mission, hit the "ESC" key, you will then see a menu option to save your career.

An important point: when you delete or load a saved game, it deletes ALL saved-games which are newer - this prevents you from "branching" your career. So be careful before deleting those old saved-games from early in your career!
Repairing careers

If your saved career gets corrupted in some way, the instructions at Restoring Corrupted Careers may help.

Restoring Corrupted Careers

If your career becomes corrupted for some reason (for example, installing a mod whilst not docked in port), it may be possible to fix the career files and not lose all of your hard work.

jackcford at [subsim.com] has posted the following information [here]

Despite knowing that I should only mod in port I screwed up a career by modding whilst at sea.

I got around it by going to C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\SH3\data\cfg\Careers\YourName where 'YourName' was the lost career and renaming the folder to 'xYourName'.

Next I set up the career again in SH3, exactly as before flotilla, base, Kapitan's name etc.. Sailed and saved the game then exited SH3.

In C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\SH3\data\cfg\Careers\ now was the new career name folder and the one I had renamed by putting the x infront of it.

Next I used a file compare utility (I use Beyond Compare) to compare the three files in the new career folder with the same files in the renamed career and copied all the 'differences' from the renamed career files to the new career files ~ you do this one file at a time.

Next I copied all the other files and folders in the renamed career folder to the new career folder and BINGO I had my career back exactly as it was.

There may be an easier way but this works. Obviously something gets screwed in one of those first three
files and this process corrects it. Hope this helps?

08-25-13, 12:24 AM	#6
Svonne Sailor man Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 47 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	Career The Career mode is also known as the "dynamic campaign." In career mode, you perform a series of patrols throughout the course of the war. Table of contents [hide] 1 Objectives 1.1 Career progression 1.2 Saving, reloading, and deleting careers 1.3 Repairing careers Objectives Unlike the single mission mode, you will not receive specific objectives, such as "sink the King George V battleship." All of your orders will be to patrol a specified grid square for 24 hours. The 24 hours do not have to be consecutive, so you can pursue ship contacts outside of the grid, and then return later to complete your patrol. After you patrol your assigned grid, you are then free to navigate freely wherever you please for as long as your fuel and torpedoes hold out. You are free to engage any enemy targets you encounter before, during, or after your patrol. You can terminate the patrol at any point and automatically return to base or, preferably, you can sail back to port, and terminate the patrol "in the harbour". Check the Career Timeline for the availability of U-boat types, weapons, ports, flotillas, and neutrality/enmity of nations. Career progression As you complete each patrol in your career, you will receive several things in reward for your successes. Renown - This is a measure of your fame. The more successful you are, the more renown you are awarded. You can use and renown earned as a form of currency to "buy" certain improvements for your U-Boat. These range from better crew, to equipment upgrades and even entirely new U-Boats. See the Career Timeline for lists of what is available and how much renown it costs. Successes which gain you renown include: Reaching your patrol area Patrolling that area for 24 hours Number of enemy ships sunk Tonnage of enemy ships sunk Aeroplanes shot down Loss of Renown - If you have any failures, these will deduct from your gained renown. Failures include: Sinking neutral ships Sinking axis ships Shooting friendly aeroplanes Wounded crew Killed crew Damage to your U-Boat Promotions - If you are particularly successful, you may be allowed to award promotions to members of your crew. If you have sufficient renown, you yourself may be promotoed. Medals - If you are particularly successful, you may be allowed to allocate medals to members of your crew. It is possible that you yourself may also receive such decorations. Qualifications - At the conclusion of each patrol, you will be able to allocate one "qualification badge" to any Officer or Non-commissioned Officer of your crew. For a list of available qualifications, see Crew Management. Saving, reloading, and deleting careers To save your career in a mission, hit the "ESC" key, you will then see a menu option to save your career. An important point: when you delete or load a saved game, it deletes ALL saved-games which are newer - this prevents you from "branching" your career. So be careful before deleting those old saved-games from early in your career! Repairing careers If your saved career gets corrupted in some way, the instructions at Restoring Corrupted Careers may help. Restoring Corrupted Careers If your career becomes corrupted for some reason (for example, installing a mod whilst not docked in port), it may be possible to fix the career files and not lose all of your hard work. jackcford at [subsim.com] has posted the following information [here] Despite knowing that I should only mod in port I screwed up a career by modding whilst at sea. I got around it by going to C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\SH3\data\cfg\Careers\YourName where 'YourName' was the lost career and renaming the folder to 'xYourName'. Next I set up the career again in SH3, exactly as before flotilla, base, Kapitan's name etc.. Sailed and saved the game then exited SH3. In C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\SH3\data\cfg\Careers\ now was the new career name folder and the one I had renamed by putting the x infront of it. Next I used a file compare utility (I use Beyond Compare) to compare the three files in the new career folder with the same files in the renamed career and copied all the 'differences' from the renamed career files to the new career files ~ you do this one file at a time. Next I copied all the other files and folders in the renamed career folder to the new career folder and BINGO I had my career back exactly as it was. There may be an easier way but this works. Obviously something gets screwed in one of those first three files and this process corrects it. Hope this helps?