JScones, a question on the "randomise number of days spent in base" option, if I may!
I'm a bit of a slow player, so I've only recently completed my first GWX2 patrol, 29 days through September 1939 in a Type VIIb. So I docked on 29th. After exiting and restarting, I upgraded the hydrophones (took 1 day, maybe 2) then launched my second patrol. This began on October 4th, a mere 5 days after I arrived in port!
From what I've read (not a vast amount) this isn't very common or realistic - much time was needed to load the boat with food, fuel and munitions, for maintenance and repairs, and not forgetting the essential shore leave for the crew - so I'm just wondering how the randomisation feature works for the days spent in base? I don't want to always be in base a fixed number of days (not very immersive), but I don't want to be back out to sea within a week of returning either, because it will take me forever to reach 1940 at the speed I complete my patrols :rotfl:
Is there no minimum value on the randomisation, or is it as low as 3-4 days? Maybe in special circumstances crews were sent out this quickly in reality, perhaps especially early war when there were so few boats available, but just wondering what I should expect with this setting in future. If it's going to vary too wildly, I might enter numbers manually myself, picked from my head between 20 and 40 days or so. I've read the manual top to bottom, but can't find more details on this.
Another comical 'side-effect' of this - I went to the effort of reading the messages_en.txt file before my patrol (I use the expanded one from danurve also), to check all the important news from BdU that I was sure to miss on the radio through October whilst in port, but as it happened I wasn't in port for long enough to miss any!
Many thanks for all your efforts with SH3 Commander, JScones!
I look forward to the forthcoming v2.8. An excellent production all around, and helps to add a lot of immersion around the game.