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aluc24 · 11-17-13, 06:26 PM

Hello all,

I just got into the water (or rather, under it)

Took SH3, some essential mods for realism (GWX, Hardcore Fixes, Commander, and so on), set realism to 100% (I'm really obsessed with realism), and I'm now on my second patrol (September 7, 1939, so I expect to sink something) with my Type IIA.

As my first patrol was August 1-3, 1939, before the war started, I knew there won't be anything to shoot at. So I devoted that patrol (except going to the right grid) for stalking friendly ships, practicing interception with them, positioning submarine for torpedo shots, adjusting TDC - just kept the finger off the trigger (interception was quite difficult with submarine that can only make 6 knots submerged, and runs out of batteries in few hours).

And even first day on my patrol, I though I need to write down stuff. For example, if I spotted a ship, I could write down it's type, country, course. On later patrols - make a quick-access book for reminding myself of flags that represent enemies of Germany, note coordinates of nice deep spots in ocean for evading destroyers, describe observed shipping lanes, and so on. Also - to write down submarine performance notes (speed, battery time, and so on), and many many other things. I know I can make marks and plot lines on the map, but hey, it gets deleted the next patrol, and I can't add any notes to these marks.

So for now, I think I will just take a pencil and a paper notebook, but thinking of it - I can't be the only one who misses such feature in SH3

There is a ton of things that a real U-Boot captain would write down in his log or something.
Ain't there a mod or something for this kind of thing? I guess it would be very easy to code (compared to complexity of other mods). But I can't find it, and it is surprising.

Am I the only one who misses this feature?

11-17-13, 06:26 PM	#1
aluc24 Sailor man Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 48 Downloads: 91 Uploads: 0	Mod for writing notes in SH3? Hello all, I just got into the water (or rather, under it) Took SH3, some essential mods for realism (GWX, Hardcore Fixes, Commander, and so on), set realism to 100% (I'm really obsessed with realism), and I'm now on my second patrol (September 7, 1939, so I expect to sink something) with my Type IIA. As my first patrol was August 1-3, 1939, before the war started, I knew there won't be anything to shoot at. So I devoted that patrol (except going to the right grid) for stalking friendly ships, practicing interception with them, positioning submarine for torpedo shots, adjusting TDC - just kept the finger off the trigger (interception was quite difficult with submarine that can only make 6 knots submerged, and runs out of batteries in few hours). And even first day on my patrol, I though I need to write down stuff. For example, if I spotted a ship, I could write down it's type, country, course. On later patrols - make a quick-access book for reminding myself of flags that represent enemies of Germany, note coordinates of nice deep spots in ocean for evading destroyers, describe observed shipping lanes, and so on. Also - to write down submarine performance notes (speed, battery time, and so on), and many many other things. I know I can make marks and plot lines on the map, but hey, it gets deleted the next patrol, and I can't add any notes to these marks. So for now, I think I will just take a pencil and a paper notebook, but thinking of it - I can't be the only one who misses such feature in SH3 There is a ton of things that a real U-Boot captain would write down in his log or something. Ain't there a mod or something for this kind of thing? I guess it would be very easy to code (compared to complexity of other mods). But I can't find it, and it is surprising. Am I the only one who misses this feature?