Standalone Med Campaign?

[Hitman]

I don't recall having seeing such thing yet, but has there ever been a mod that limits the traffic only to the Mediterranean? I only make careers in the Med because it is one of the few ways of playing historically in SH3 (No wolfpacks) and also with a low TC (So I can get planes attacks), so I feel that the longer load times and memory use of the traffic in the rest of the world is in fact useless for me. If I want to transfer, using JSGME and enabling the rest of the world traffic between patrols should be enough, since I can't exit the Mediterranean sailing my U-Boot.

So has someone done/thought about doing such thing?

I'm tempted about doing it myself by deleting all non-Mediterranean entries from the layers, but looks like a long work:hmm:

[heartc]

Wow, good idea, would be awesome.

How is GWX doing it btw with their added traffic? The only thing holding me back from trying GWX are the reportedly pretty long load times, which are probably going to be extremely long in my case with 512 mb RAM. I guess everytime you go out for a patrol, the complete world traffic is loaded / calculated somewhere in the background, including the indian ocean when you are in the North Atlantic? Would be cool to be able to activate / deactivate traffic layers according to the general area you are about to patrol.

Load times can really put me off because everytime I think about firing up SHIII, it would be like, "I have some time now to continue my patrol - uhm, wait, about 15+ minutes until I'm in the mission, another 15 minutes until I'm anywhere near traffic lanes, and an unknown amount until I make a contact if at all. And then I need to get it over with in that same session, since saving and loading tends to screw the AI / convoy integrity...nah, I would get stuck at the PC for another 3+ hours, which is more time than I really have. Let's fire up AOD. Loads in 5 seconds, time compression 4096 and they got working wolfpacks.

[bigboywooly]

Ummmm Uboat battle in the Med is solely based in the med

AFAIK there is no other med only campaign

[Hitman]

I would get stuck at the PC for another 3+ hours, which is more time than I really have

That's exactly my problem. Although my PC is quite decent even today (P4 2.6GHz/ 2GB RAM/ ATI X800 256MB) and runs SH4 about fine, the loading times in NYGM and GWX are quite nasty. Not an absolute no-no but certainly quite annoying when you have 2 litte kids and a real-life job, and your playing time is limited to some 2 hours per day at most. :hmm:


Although I'm centered at SH4 now, I like to switch ocasionally and take my U-Boat in patrol, which at 256 TC only seems reasonable in the Mediterranean, where distances are way shorter, and action is easier to be found (Plus the increased difficulty of most objectives being warships).

Ummmm Uboat battle in the Med is solely based in the med

Isn't that also from the X1 guys?

Anyway, AFAIK it adds action in the Med but still keeps the stock traffic in the rest of the world.

[bigboywooly]

Yes it is X1
I did have it on the comp but no longer so cant say
I think you are right in that it keeps the stock traffic everywhere but that was limited in stock anyway

Dont forget the GWX campaign files are over double the size of stock plus the extra shipping
All adds up

Load times will always be longer the more units you add
So 1.04 will be longer too as many new units added
Imagine the extras when Iambecome releases his ship pack too

If you can edit the campaign files its not too difficult to remove a lot of the traffic elsewhere in the game

I know this has been mentioned before but never been done AFAIK

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Isn't that also from the X1 guys?

Yes, unfortunately

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