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Old 04-15-08, 04:39 PM   #12
danurve
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ACHTUNG!!

Before you go cremating your mesaages file;
The reason you get the repeated messages in the game is a) your save/reload is durring an unexpired "transmit untill received" timer/message b) durring an active timer.

Easy fix; open your \Data\Campaigns\Campaign\messages_en.txt file with a quality editor, Not notepad, and don't word frackin wrap. That will frack up the tab order. In the 5th. column you'll see a single number 1 or 0. Change the 1's to 0's you would like to affect. Be aware some of these messages are 1 (untill received) for a reason. But not critical for gameplay.

Also be aware SH3 Commander does make it easy to alter your T/C, but be aware of sound glitches stated in the FAQ as a result of such changes. As long as you set T/C back to defaults and rollback before adding Mods you should be ok. Also note: the T/C setting in commander for 'Radio Reports' does Not alter T/C for Radio Messages. You will need to change T/C for 'Real Time' which could alter T/C for other jazz.

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1. If I ignore the radio messages is there any renown loss?
No loss, messages are largely immersion.

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4. Is there any way to just shut the radio messages off completely, and if so would I miss anything really useful like a convoy report?
You could open the messages file and delete the contents, but that is a lousy option.
You could use the stock/basic install included with RL_E.
You could give the radioman a break, but you could miss convoy radio reports then. If you remove content from the messages file this will not affect radio reports sent from the game. In other words if you use RL_E or one of the more basic message mod/files as stated above it has no affect on the Radio Reports.

The golden rule is always be in-port before you JSGME. Modded message files can be an exception unless perhaps your talking about saved games where it wants to pull from an unexpired message. Having said that, I can also state in testing RL_E & the Update I have not had one problem switching out content durring any save, even from a resupply point. And I'm talking almost 11,000 messages.
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