lifguard duty off solomon islands ???

[Mav303]

hi guys,

one question about tm 1.6, its july 25 1942 and i became this strange mission



i never have those mission before and i dont know what must i do, the strange thing is i must arrival not later than 5 of december ??? its 5 month away and in this time i receive no other mssions...


what kind of mission is this one ? a new campaign layer from thm 1.6 ?

what must i do ?

thanks

[leovampire]

more help seeing everyone using it looks for postings there.

[Mav303]

sorry.....my mistake


this post can be deleted please ;-)

[leovampire]

just thought you would get better information and a lot faster if you posted in there because the makers and players all read and post from that thread a lot faster.

I only did that mission once and it was a nightmare but it was back before the 1.3 patch with the smoke flares from the pilot's and they would cross the Island and go to the other side of the area before I could get them all. So I don't know how much it has changed since the patch and triger maru rework.

[tater]

I haven't messed with the TM patrols (which are largely stiock, I believe), partially because it was part of the recurring patrol fix.

There are some generic problems with the stock missions, and lukeff is actually working on them. He's found many cases where such missions have dates that result in that problem. When he fixes them, I can work on a TM compatible patch.

[mrbeast]

I got a lifeguard duty mission once that put me off Guadalcanal, in Iron bottom Sound! Wouldn't they just send out a PT boat or something to pick them up? This mission was set after the US invasion so not only was I faced with a pretty tedious task but it was pretty preposterous as far as realism goes.

[tater]

they have a jap PORT there in stock. the slot in stock is absurd

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by mrbeast

I got a lifeguard duty mission once that put me off Guadalcanal, in Iron bottom Sound! Wouldn't they just send out a PT boat or something to pick them up? This mission was set after the US invasion so not only was I faced with a pretty tedious task but it was pretty preposterous as far as realism goes.

As tater has said, most of the stock lifeguard missions are pretty screwy, plus they are sorely lacking in variety. I want to move the date and location of that Guadalcanal mission to some other one, because it is really silly having it at the current date and time. Other things I'm working on:

• Randomized locations for downed pilots. Now they don't come down in the same location every time the mission is generated.
• Adjusted generation of missions: lifeguard duty assignments are now generated no more than 3 weeks before the downed pilots actually show up. This gives the player ample time to reach the lifeguard zone and eliminates the silliness of getting a lifeguard order months in advance.
• Brand new missions in brand new locations, such as off Shanghai, Hong Kong, the Home Islands, and Marcus Island (wayyyyyyyyyyy out in the middle of nowwhere, lol). Based on the information from the Navy's historical research web site, all of these new missions are based on their historical dates and locations.

Already I've added 8 new lifeguard missions, and I've barely scratched the surface of the information I've found online. In the end there should be more than plenty of lifeguard missions to go around.