[maillemaker]

Well after a few weeks of running vanilla, I switched to GWX 3.0. So far it's not floating my boat. First of all, it takes forever to get out of Kiel (I think that's the name) because every time you run into a German boat you go back to a low TC (4 I think). It's really hard to get it back up to 1024 because once you hit 512 the system becomes almost unresponsive. Maybe it's low memory or something.

As was pointed out above, if you use SH3 Commander you can adjust what TC is set when different events happen. You can also increase the maximum to 4096x.

Also, there is an option in Commander to "Start at Sea". With this setting, the harbor for our bases is still there but the "dot on the map" for it is set out to sea. You start at the dot away from the harbor and related traffic. Likewise when you end your mission you can end within 25 km of the dot instead of having to return to the harbor.

Some people enjoy the scenery when leaving or returning to harbor, and there have been times after a particularly grueling patrol that I have proudly sailed back into my slip to see the nurses tossing flowers at us.

But mostly I am well beyond the harbor eye candy so I almost always start and end at sea.

Second, my screen is cluttered with all kinds of weird lines that weren't there before. What's the deal?

I can't speak to that one without a better description. Is this when you are underwater? Radar contacts maybe?

Third, the radio messages constantly come in and that always sets TC back to 1.

I agree this can be annoying and you can either do as was suggested above and mod out the traffic or you can just move the radio operator from his station . I do this when I am on long runs out to the American coast so I can crank up the TC to max and read a book or something while I crawl across the Atlantic.

Finally, I mysteriously died for no apparent reason. I was at periscope depth when suddenly I took damage. Though there were no ships around I went to 25m and got the crew to work on the damage (nothing major). Suddenly I took more damage and started leaking. It was relatively shallow so I called all stop and hit bottom at 43m with serious leaking. I loaded up the damage control and got to work on the red areas while the leaking slowly reduced. I went to the hydrophone and nothing. Then somehow I got more damage and guys were dying. Then came another hit and all hands lost. The only thing I can think of is maybe it was a bomber or some other aircraft.

Sounds like a mine or aircraft. Where were you on the map and what was the date?

Steve

I reloaded and came back with 3 kills. I think I got lucky because I couldn't see the flags on any of the ships I sank. They were all dark, but I think someone here said that if the ships are neutral that they carefully light themselves up so you can see their neutral flag clearly. Is that true?