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I noticed I saved a page from the SH3Gen site to my harddrive. This is what is on the introduction page:

Overview


Sh3Gen is an external patrol engine for Silent Hunter III. It is reading and analyzing the main application files, adds historic and geospatial data and writes back an updated patrol information into a savegame. The new information shows up on reload of the savegame, in the ingame map and wardiary.

If you follow my instructions about setting up the Tracking Room Station, you can view detailed strategic maps in a free GIS viewer.

Precisely, you will be given information about:



■ enemy ports - what kind of ships are there?

■ warships, big ships and convoys - where does HQ suspect them to be?

■ the overall situation - whats going on in the world in general?

■ single merchants - in which areas can you expect to find unprotected shipping?

■ position of airbases - you can deduct amount of airpower from this



In addition to the data that comes from SHIII, it adds layers of 'virtual' data, namely:



■ real, varying mission objectives

■ standing operational orders in effect during the patrol, specifically researched for the whole war



Sh3Gen is meant to be an athmosphere and gameplay enhancement, not a spysat mod. Therefore, any information will be given randomly and will often not be reliable. There are a multitude of options to adjust reliability and amount of information to your playing style, as well as options to switch off certain modules.



You will also be given real mission objectives, derived from patrol data, for the first time giving missions an interesting purpose, that is tightly integrated within the game world. There is no direct reward for fulfilling the objectives in terms of prestige points, other than what you make of it in your imagination, but I think it will reward you with much more interesting missions than vanilla SHIII.



The first time you use Sh3Gen please read my quickstart guide. The instructions might sound a bit complicated or daunting, but in fact it is very simple and logical, as you will notice if you have used it a few times.




Compatibility



Sh3Gen is designed to be fully compatible with all patches and mods for SHIII, and its data structures are open for community mods. Using Sh3Gen is safe, as the only files affected are the ones from the specified savegame.



Since its release, the concept has proven to be working, the program is stable and flexible. There are a lot of possibilities for new features, and I plan to carefully expand the application, as my time permits.



The great thing is that, while people are working on sophisticated new campaign files, we can now use Sh3Gen together with their mods to have an enhanced Sh3 experience.




Requirements



You must have Microsoft DotNET Framework installed to run this software.

You can download and install DotNET Framework from here.




Feedback



I am interested to hear about your experiences and suggestions, and I like to get into contact with people who want to help me improve Sh3Gen.



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