[piersyf]

Hi all. Question 1 is a bit complex... but essentially relates to a modding question. I'm running SHIV with patch 1.4. I just completed a very frustrating mission in campaign, frustrating because my home base was over run by the Japs and no new base was assigned. I can't end the mission. To add insult to injury, I managed to use the remaining fuel to limp into a friendly port (from Surabaya to Darwin on 24% diesel with 6 dives to avoid a/c). I'm in a friendly port with no fuel and dead batteries and I can't get fuel. I didn't understand some peoples complaints about this being an 'arcady' game, but with this I agree. Even in the old Silent Service II game if you ran out of fuel they'd come get you. Has anyone considered modding this? Allowing refuelling (but no repairs or torpedoes) at friendly ports? Or even allowing a player to request a home port? The game knows it (sort of) because the flags on the map indicate no home port. It sucks that I have to lose the whole campaign... Second question... why do you guys insist on using filefront for your downloads? You may be able to download for free, but you have to pay to join. It may only be a few dollars, but it still requires a credit card. A pretty stupid reason to get one, I think... Piers