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Originally Posted by Captain Wreckless
I was around April 20, 21 1942. It was after the message about the Doolittle Raid though.
Another strange occurrence. I had to recon a harbor in the Bungo Straits and on my way out I sank a TK, troop ship, and a cargo ship. Proceeded up the coast toward Yokohama and sank 2 fishing boats. Near Yokohama I got 2 cargos and a Aux sub chaser. That is 7 MS and 1 Subchaser.
When I docked in PH, it showed that I only sank 2 Merchants and the Subchaser. So I reloaded a previous save and the map showed all eight sunk icons. When I exited out the tally showed 2 Merchies and the warship.
WTF? This was my best patrol yet. Has anyone had this happen to them?
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Did you load a save game? Its a unfortunate bug thats been around in SH 4 a long time.
I have noticed it tends to happen more if save too soon after sinking or too close to site of sinking somewhere along the way in a career. Also believe based on experience that if enable/disable mods too often, especially if not on a truly clean save, can cause issue. Basically, things get corrupted, fiel may still load but won't load properly
Honestly, its why I chose to have a desk top just for the sim (well for games, but only use it for SH 4 lol) because sim has always acted strange when reloading saved games. I rarely get save related issues now because I just keep a patrol running. I know not everyone can do that so here are a few tips which can help reduce chances of this happening.
1. Before each patrol, after have made upgrades, promotions etc, if adding any new mods (if possible discouraged but not always a issue) add them, start back up, load into the office, delete current save file and make a brand new save file. This will be a "fresh" save, start after save.
2 Avoid enabling disabling mods through career if possible. Again, won't always hurt but frequency can screw things up.
3. Don't keep too many saved games, program does not like this.
4. Do not save too soon (I'd say wait 20-30 minutes) after sinking a ship, achieving a goal etc, saving too soon then when reload sim seems to not have logged it. Believe this is some type of "internal clock" issue.
5. Do not save near land (go out to sea if must) , near sunken vessels, or near any contacts. Always check radar/sound/visual...make sure ships like fishing boats which radar operator will not report even though they show up are not on the scope. Sound check, make sure no distant vessels can be heard. etc
Write it off as command did not award you credit, it happened. One famous case was Archerfish which sunk largest vessel ever by a submarine November 1944, the carrier Shinano (originally a Yamato Battleship, converted to carrier). Intelligence did not believe his account of sinking a carrier initially. Happened with other vessels as well through the war, some skippers were vindicated later, some were not.