Mod Request

[GoldenRivet]

Here goes: (probably a repost)

Whenever you sink a ship a little sunken ship icon appears on the map screen indicating the location where the ship went down.

Would it be possible to make these little sunken ship icons accumulate on the map as your career goes on?

for example

any ships you sink on patrol one their icons will also appear in patrol two, and all of patrol two's sunken ships will also appear on patrol three. so that eventually on patrol 15 you have a huge number of sunken ship icons.

sort of a rolling account of where you have scored sinkings in the past. and you can keep track of your hunting grounds this way.

also does anyone know of a BDU Kriegsmarine Grid Map Overlay for Google Earth???

[gimpy117]

might be usefull for remembering where ship are to sink

[A6Intruder]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

Here goes: (probably a repost)

Whenever you sink a ship a little sunken ship icon appears on the map screen indicating the location where the ship went down.

Would it be possible to make these little sunken ship icons accumulate on the map as your career goes on?

for example

any ships you sink on patrol one their icons will also appear in patrol two, and all of patrol two's sunken ships will also appear on patrol three. so that eventually on patrol 15 you have a huge number of sunken ship icons.

sort of a rolling account of where you have scored sinkings in the past. and you can keep track of your hunting grounds this way.

also does anyone know of a BDU Kriegsmarine Grid Map Overlay for Google Earth???

Nice idea but how do you think your map will look after your 50 journey?
There will nothing be left then ship-icons.
I would not appreciate!
Kind regards.

[GoldenRivet]

i suppose you could have some sort of SH3 commander like program that you could use to clear sunken ship icons after XXX tons or XXX ships you killed or after so many patrols.

i think that this would me more of a mod better suited for people who play on higher realism settings where the stakes are high and your career length is more on par with realistic 15 to 20 patrols and your sinkings are fewer and further between. If you only sink 5 to 10 ships per mission vs. going out guns blazing arcade mode and demolishing 40 ships per mission your map would fill up at more realistic levels.

I was private messaged that a background program could be created to do such a task, but as with most complex mods it would probably be very time consuming and you would have to locate someone with not only the smarts to do it, but the time to devote to development.

I have started a couple of times to plot the location of my ship sinkings on google earth, but the best i could do is use SH3 commander to record the location, then use Kriegsmarine Quadrant Conversions to convert that to lat long and plot the location of the sinking, despite the fact that this proves useful in allowing you to establish your own personal hunting grounds... its a very time consuming way of doing it.

[Jimbuna]

Someone has already done some work on this GR....just can't remember who

Good luck with the search