Deck gun damage.

[Reece]

Hi, After 4 days patrolling the only thing I just came across was a Coastal Tanker, & it took 55 shells to sink it! Could someone point to where this can be changed please! Shipping in GWX is rather quiet!!

[Mush Martin]

got to sticky mod tools

get mini tweeker

and other tools

in mini tweek you will find

sub guns dat. and shells

settings are in there

read documentation

have a blast

[Reece]

Hi, I had minitweaker but wasn't sure of the file, thanks

Edit: Nothing in there to do with damage!!

[azn_132]

Its ethier guns.sim,GUN_SUB.sim,shells.sim, or shells.zon.

[Reece]

None of those either!

[Mush Martin]

not damage Hitting power

damage model is local to the ship your hitting

what you set here is how hard you hit.

Shell zon.

min effect max effect.

sub guns

rate and projectile speed. and reload time.

[NiKuTa]

Originally Posted by Reece

Hi, After 4 days patrolling the only thing I just came across was a Coastal Tanker, & it took 55 shells to sink it! Could someone point to where this can be changed please! Shipping in GWX is rather quiet!!

Shiping in GWX are ... ?? i dont understand this .
But if you said that ships in GWX are hard to sunk, you mistake a little .

[Reece]

I have been doing gun tests here & next thing, no ammo, I have reinstalled the second time, now all ok, I think it had something to do with the zones.cfg file?
The shipping I was referring to is the traffic, in 4 days a coastal tanker is all I had come across!

[Reece]

What is going on (in GWX), when going to Accademy - Artillery, then place 3 men to the deck gun, man them manually, there is no ammo, If I set the men to fire automaically they have the magic touch & fire away, then if I man the guns manually the ammo is there!! This has to be a fault!
Could someone else do a test please, I don't want to keep searching for a problem that I created if it is a fault with GWX!
Thanks.

Edit: What I was origionally testing for, damage caused by deck gun, is still there, shell zon has no effect, I fired 60 shells into a coastal merchant & still couldn't destroy it! Gave up on trying to sink it with deck gun!!! If anyone can offer some advise hear I would appreciate it.

[Reece]

Summing up, I have edited the following:
Shells.zon
zones.cfg
guns.zon
GUNS_SUB.zon
None of these seem to have any effect on the damage to a ship, a coastal tanker will still take around 60 shots to sink and a C2 around 100 shells!! Most frustrating!!

[Jimbuna]

If your installation is faultless there should be absolutely no problem with sinking merchants......in fact some people might say it's quite easy. I would suggest you aim below the waterline along the length of the hull to simulate flooding in as many compartments as possible

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by Reece

Summing up, I have edited the following:
Shells.zon
zones.cfg
guns.zon
GUNS_SUB.zon
None of these seem to have any effect on the damage to a ship, a coastal tanker will still take around 60 shots to sink and a C2 around 100 shells!! Most frustrating!!

Hi Reece, IIRC there is a .zon file for EVERY vessel. So you need to find the .zon file for the coastal tanker and the C2 and edit those. Basically you are looking to reduce the hit points on the zones of each vessel.

Oh, shoot, did you remember to remove the backup copy that mini-tweaker makes each time you edit a file. The changes will not work with the backup in the same folder.

[Morts]

Originally Posted by Reece

Summing up, I have edited the following:
Shells.zon
zones.cfg
guns.zon
GUNS_SUB.zon
None of these seem to have any effect on the damage to a ship, a coastal tanker will still take around 60 shots to sink and a C2 around 100 shells!! Most frustrating!!

coastel tanker 60 shells? fire 5-20 shells below the waterline and it will sink
C2 100 shells ?
fire 10-30 shells below the water line and it will sink

[Cheapskate]

Realised after several abortive and frustrating attempts at the Naval Artillery mission that my mistake was firing until I got the " she's going down" message.

With the new damage model in GWX, the target has often taken critical damage much earlier...maybe after as few as 5 or 6 waterline hits... and will sink if given enough time.

Have given up trying to fire the gun myself, now delegate this to 1WO and the gun crew. I just concentrate on observing the results and steering the vessel into a reasonable range - 1000/1500 metres seems OK. If the target shows any signs of slowing, listing, or settling down at bow or stern, I instruct WO to cease fire. Then change to another target (if one is in range) or go after it if isn't.

This works just fine and I never fail to sink all 5 targets...sometimes with as many as 40 (or more), shells left in the magazine,

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by Cheapskate

Realised after several abortive and frustrating attempts at the Naval Artillery mission that my mistake was firing until I got the " she's going down" message.

With the new damage model in GWX, the target has often taken critical damage much earlier...maybe after as few as 5 or 6 waterline hits... and will sink if given enough time.

Have given up trying to fire the gun myself, now delegate this to 1WO and the gun crew. I just concentrate on observing the results and steering the vessel into a reasonable range - 1000/1500 metres seems OK. If the target shows any signs of slowing, listing, or settling down at bow or stern, I instruct WO to cease fire. Then change to another target (if one is in range) or go after it if isn't.

This works just fine and I never fail to sink all 5 targets...sometimes with as many as 40 (or more), shells left in the magazine,

Reece I think from the symptoms your doing everything right
it just seems like you havent clicked on the ammo icon like they said.
you should be working