[CB..]

Originally Posted by HEMISENT

Thanks CB
I'm starting to add the patrolling subs tonight.
Why is it that you just did the rnd. files but left the scr. files alone-what's the difference? As you can probably tell this is my first experience with tinkering with either but your idea has so much merit I can't pass it up.

Cheers H'

the reason i'm working on the RND layer rather than the SCR - is really because my campaign is (apart from all this stuff) basically as stock--so all the main convoys are in the RND layer--(im not even sure if there are any convoys in the SCR as stock? dunno) the other reason is that i haven't tried working on the RND layer before so like you wasn't sure if there was any difference between the RND and SCR layer---seemed best to work on the RND layer just in case theyre was--


i'm hoping to learn a few things as i go along so i can refine the idea...

i wish there was a

MaxDelayInterv

to go along with the

DelayMin=60
DelayMinInterv=7860

that way you could set some of the convoys and subs to spawn at tthe more or less exactly the same moment and this would mean that some of the sub reports would genuinely be "shadows" rather than route intelligence--tho the good things about the patroling subs is that they are doing the same thing as you---if you find a convoy along a route and it has no wolfpack attached to it--but one of the patroling subs turns up then it will attempt to attack at the same time as you--so it is dynamic--

if over time you find it is just too difficult to find convoys then you can simply increase the spawn rate fro the convoys and this will create more convoys travelling the routes---i have done four patrols at the azores and not so far located one convoy--tho i did find a Med/UK convoy on the way home once---so i might step up the frequency of the azores routes to balance the gameplay a little--but my money is on the fact that after a while you might get a bit of hunch as to where to hunt for the best results--

i know where to fiind the lone merchants now which is new!!