Patrol Start Dates

[Sharkley]

Working on a little project and I need to know the following.

No matter what month you select to start your patrol (using SH3COMMANDER)
do you always start at the 1st of the month ??

If not what dates do you typically see ??

Many Thanks

[Oneshot/Onekill]

Unfortunately due to SH3 game limitations you can only start at the first of every month. the GWX team added the ability to start in Aug of 1939 so that you could reach your assigned patrol area before the war officially began, unfortunatley you have to start on the 1st.

[Sharkley]

That is what I thought.

Thanks !!

[Sailor Steve]

Yep, 'tis true. The stock game only lets you start at the first of September 1939, and the first of January 1940, '41, '42 and '43. A long time ago a fellow who goes by Beery made a mod that lets you start at the beginning of any month of the war. But even he couldn't make it start on any other day of the month but the first.

[JScones]

Just to be pedantic, it's only the first patrol of a career that defaults to the first day of the month. But this can be fudged to any date with a combination of coding and user interaction. It's the user interaction part that has stopped me from building it into SH3Cmdr; but it is very easy to achieve with just a basic understanding of the game files and a smidge of lateral thinking - there's a post explaining how to achieve it around here somewhere.

Subsequent patrols can start on any date.

[Oneshot/Onekill]

I stand corrected..thanks for clearing that up

[Sharkley]

Originally Posted by JScones

Just to be pedantic, it's only the first patrol of a career that defaults to the first day of the month. But this can be fudged to any date with a combination of coding and user interaction. It's the user interaction part that has stopped me from building it into SH3Cmdr; but it is very easy to achieve with just a basic understanding of the game files and a smidge of lateral thinking - there's a post explaining how to achieve it around here somewhere.

Subsequent patrols can start on any date.

Thanks, I was only thinking of the 1st patrol. The day is not as important as the month. So I won't worry about changing any settings.

But thanks for providing the great info !!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by JScones

...it is very easy to achieve with just a basic understanding of the game files...

Sir, you ask too much!:rotfl:

I think you mean any year of the war. Beery's Flotilla mod added default start months for 1944 and 1945. Only SH3Cmdr easily allows players to change the start month to whatever they want, within the Flotilla's existing life span of course (which is defined in the game, not SH3Cmdr).

Show-off!

Just kidding. I don't remember that part, but then I've been using Commander since the day you released the first version, so I'm probably wrong (what else is new?).

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Yep, 'tis true. The stock game only lets you start at the first of September 1939, and the first of January 1940, '41, '42 and '43. A long time ago a fellow who goes by Beery made a mod that lets you start at the beginning of any month of the war. But even he couldn't make it start on any other day of the month but the first.

I think you mean any year of the war. Beery's Flotilla mod added default start months for 1944 and 1945. Only SH3Cmdr easily allows players to change the start month to whatever they want, within the Flotilla's existing life span of course (which is defined in the game, not SH3Cmdr).