04-15-06, 08:51 PM
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Re: Liberty Ships appearing too early with UC overlay for GW
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Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann
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Originally Posted by panthercules
On my second patrol with GW, in July 1941. Just before leaving port this time I decided to try loading up the new UC campaign overlay for GW. I'm cruising off the NW coast of Africa in my Type IXB, when I stumble upon a lone merchant. While stalking it to get into firing position, I was puzzled to see a shape that looked about as big as a C2 or C3 but had masts that looked more like a small freighter, except too many of them - finally figured out that it was a Liberty ship - my first one sighted in three careers.
After sending it to the bottom, it struck me that it seemed to be a bit early for Liberty ships to be showing up out there. I just did some research and discovered that the first Liberty ship (SS Patrick Henry) wasn't actually launched until September 27, 1941 (and presumably took at least a few weeks after to be ready for sea duty).
Is there any simple setting that determines when the various ship types first appear? I wouldn't have thought it was like Rubini or the GW team to make a mistake like this and have these ships showing up too early, given the amount of attention to detail and historical accuracy that is evidenced by their great mod efforts, so I suspect that there may not be any good/easy way to set these start dates with more precision.
I don't know whether this is a GW or a UC thing, and it's obviously a minor point, but if it could be fixed easily it would be good.
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I'm still sorting out one or two unrelated kinks, but with a quick glance it appears that this will be fixed with the GW 1.1 update I hope to post late tonight. It contains quite a few date-based roster corrections for different ships including the Liberty which will now be set to spawn August 1941 or later. |
Did i reed UPDATE TONIGHT! 
Got to stay sharp .... 
Not sleeping! 
Got to stay on mi PC....got to...  
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