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Originally Posted by uniquemind
Hi to all of you,
I will check all of these things out, many thanks as I need all the help I can get, take today for example, I started playing around 11 this morning and I just gave up on my last Career mainly due to frustration of my own making really, its now quarter to 7 in the evening and have had no enemies to take on in all that time 
So in a moment I shall begin again, I am using the SH3 Commander Program version 2.7 and I am struggling to really understand and set up the tc settings for the best, I know they go from the higher the faster the lower the slowest, but what should I use for each given situation in the list?
No dis-respect to Captain Nemo here but to be brutally honest my relying on or trying to learn a certain degree of maths is for me pointless, as I'll never manage it, maths is my nemesis, sorry Captain Nemo, did'nt mean to waste your time 
Thanks again guys
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The TC defaults in the SH3 Commander list are fine. Remember that these are the max TCs allowed when a certain event occurs, not the TC you use while playing.
In other words, if you are cruising along at TC256, and your watch crew spots an airplane, you will automatically drop to a TC of 1. That way you have some prayer of responding. That has nothing to do with what TC you use while on patrol.
A for finding ships, just remember the old saying - you can't catch fish where the fish ain't. There's a lot of ocean and much of it is empty. In other words, go to AM51/AM52, or BF13, or AF78 - all known hot spots - and concentrate your patrols in there.
Use the pull down map to find single merchant routes and patrol them.
Numerous players post their patrol logs - in those logs you'll find the sectors where they racked up the tonnage. Ducimus, for example, even has a chart showing hot spots (for IX series) off the Americas.
Stick with it. You're looking for choke points where lots of shipping flows, and once you start to find them you'll get lots of action.