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Originally Posted by Shoopzee
I have GXW 2.1, and running a few visual enhancement mods. I started career with Commander, and am on patrol 2, Sept. 2, 1000 hrs., and have been following a 10 K ton Brit Merchant for the last 3 days, through, Skagerrak and Kattegat, and on course for a town called Arhus, on the east coast of Norway.
My question is AI related:
-Will the ship actually sail to town or port, and then leave after some time (hours/days) to embark on a return trip to UK, or will it just vanish and respawn somewhere else in the game?
-Also will the ship if it makes port remain visible while I wait for war to be declared and sink her by perhaps sneaking into the port if possible?  |
Norway doesn't have much of an east coast really. (well, really high up north maybe) That town Aarhus is in Denmark. Norway is the western side of the huge peninsula above it.
I took a look in the mission/campaign editor for you, but I cannot find a brittish vessel that supposed to go there (Aarhus). In the random-layer I found a german patrol unit (judging from the dates it appears when Denmark is occupied) and a dannish "Generic" unit that started it's voyage near St. Petersburg, Russia (exists until 1 september '39). In the script-layer I found a Dannish Passenger/Cargo that started it's voyage in the middle of the Kattegat (also exists until 1 september '39). This is probably your merchant. So I advise you to take a better look at it's flag. Dannish and Brittish flags are both red(-ish) from a distance.
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Originally Posted by Shoopzee
When you say respawn later, does this mean at the location where last waypoint was reached, or in another port, i.e. another port/place in the greater UK. Thanks. Shoop.
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Scripted layer units come and go and never repeat that route. So I don't expect you will see your merchant again. (But the campaign author may have added 'sequels' to a units route, as for example multiple patrols of an importan warship. But each route is unique and independant. i.e. that's why people have found the Hood and Nelson again after they sunk it a long time before) Random layer units come go an may repeat their journey from the beginning after a certain number of hours with a random chance. So you may have to wait as it can skip one or more cycles. Or there may even be multiple instances of the same ship/class/group if the repeat cycle is shorter than the total voyage duration. Units do not neccesarily disappear when they reach their last waypoint. But the route and unit will be removed when a certain time and date has passed, just as the route can only exist after a certain start date/time.