Help Finding Information Threads

scrapser · 03-28-08, 06:47 PM

I have TMO and RSRD and have started my first campaign and patrol. I'm asking if there are some good threads discussing such things as locating enemy shipping and using sensors in these mods...that sort of thing...as I'm seeing there are no contact icons appearing randomly on the map as they did in SH3. I guess they were removed with these mods.

I like the mods...they are great but having come into the sim after so much work has been done on it, I'm finding it difficult to locate some good discussion threads. Keywords produce too many threads to look at.

Thanks

AVGWarhawk · 03-28-08, 07:03 PM

Well, you just started one

. RSRD is historical traffic. With that in mind, you will receive messages of convoys/task forces. These are actually there as reported. If you can intercept then do so! You will experience days without contacts as it was during some patrols and then the next thing you know, all hell breaks loose. RSRD makes you hunt instead of the stock game were vessel fall into your lap. There will be times in the game where you are itching your head wondering if you are the only floating thing out there, next mile you run into a loner and hunt it down like a mad man. RSRD makes you earn you kills. TM also makes you earn you kills and take a licking sometimes as a result. Both mods are motioning you toward realism. Once hooked, there is no turning back.

scrapser · 03-28-08, 07:19 PM

Thanks for the info. I did get some flash traffic on my way to my first patrol station SE of Bungo Straits. But that traffic was heading SE of Vietnam and way too far for an intercept.

Okay...so now I know a bit more of the challenge I'm facing.

AVGWarhawk · 03-28-08, 08:57 PM

Not all flash traffic will be in your area but sometimes you get on that is very close...Hot Damn! Full bore flank, the chase is on! One member said there is no traffic in RSRD. Lurker who created RSRD posted up a picture of the traffic he implemented. There were ships everywhere. You just have to think logically as to what the shipping lanes would be for that particular time of the war. Patrol and they will come

Currently I'm playing cold stone stock. My first patrol point presented three convoys on the way. Needless to say I was out of torps before I hit the first patrol area. I returned to port for reload. I bit unrealistic but some like to play this way so with RSRD we can get the best of both worlds.

Quillan · 03-28-08, 10:03 PM

I was out on my last patrol using TMO and RSRDC, heading over towards the East China Sea from Midway, when I got one of those flash traffic messages, informing me of IJN ships redeploying to home waters from Rabaul. They gave me a suspected location and intercept time, which happened to only be about 100 miles away and pretty much where I was heading towards anyhow, so I made a slight detour on my deployment. 28 hours later, here comes 4 ships on radar. Turned out to be 2 DDs and 2 Kongo BBs. I fired six torpedoes at the lead Kongo, hit with 5, sank it, and managed to evade. GOD, did that feel good!

peabody · 03-28-08, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Currently I'm playing cold stone stock. My first patrol point presented three convoys on the way. Needless to say I was out of torps before I hit the first patrol area. I returned to port for reload. I bit unrealistic but some like to play this way so with RSRD we can get the best of both worlds.

Speaking of playing stock, I don't have any mods because my video card is right on the edge now, I even had to remove ROW which I didn't want to do. But, anyway to the unrealistic stock. I was sent from Brisbane to patrol "the slot" in the Solomons (I think that's what it's called-area between the two rows of islands?) There is a refit station at the southern end. I would go toward the north, run out of torpedos and go back south, back north out again, back south. Just to see what would happen I reloaded a saved game and ended up with 109 merchants and finally got sick of it and went to Rabaul and sank two BBs and a heavy cruiser. Enough is enough! And I never had to wait for any either, I would sink 6-8 going one way every time and whatever I had fish left for on the way back. Steady stream of Merchants. LOTS of tankers. Is there any historical reason they would be going there? The Allieds controlled the port at the southern end, Honiara I think it is, and they pass right by, well not when I'm there they don't.

So, yes stock is a bit overloaded at times.

Peabody

03-28-08, 06:47 PM	#1
scrapser Captain Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 530 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Help Finding Information Threads I have TMO and RSRD and have started my first campaign and patrol. I'm asking if there are some good threads discussing such things as locating enemy shipping and using sensors in these mods...that sort of thing...as I'm seeing there are no contact icons appearing randomly on the map as they did in SH3. I guess they were removed with these mods. I like the mods...they are great but having come into the sim after so much work has been done on it, I'm finding it difficult to locate some good discussion threads. Keywords produce too many threads to look at. Thanks __________________ Gaming Computer Specs: CM Stacker 930 DFI LP UT X58-T3eH8 i7 920 CPU TR 120 Extreme HS (lapped) 6 GB OCZ Platinum 1600 (8x175 = 1400) BFG GTX 295 Silverstone DA1000W PSU Sony GDM-FW900 24" Wide Screen CRT WinXP Pro 32-bit

03-28-08, 07:03 PM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Well, you just started one . RSRD is historical traffic. With that in mind, you will receive messages of convoys/task forces. These are actually there as reported. If you can intercept then do so! You will experience days without contacts as it was during some patrols and then the next thing you know, all hell breaks loose. RSRD makes you hunt instead of the stock game were vessel fall into your lap. There will be times in the game where you are itching your head wondering if you are the only floating thing out there, next mile you run into a loner and hunt it down like a mad man. RSRD makes you earn you kills. TM also makes you earn you kills and take a licking sometimes as a result. Both mods are motioning you toward realism. Once hooked, there is no turning back. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-28-08, 07:19 PM	#3
scrapser Captain Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 530 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the info. I did get some flash traffic on my way to my first patrol station SE of Bungo Straits. But that traffic was heading SE of Vietnam and way too far for an intercept. Okay...so now I know a bit more of the challenge I'm facing. __________________ Gaming Computer Specs: CM Stacker 930 DFI LP UT X58-T3eH8 i7 920 CPU TR 120 Extreme HS (lapped) 6 GB OCZ Platinum 1600 (8x175 = 1400) BFG GTX 295 Silverstone DA1000W PSU Sony GDM-FW900 24" Wide Screen CRT WinXP Pro 32-bit

03-28-08, 08:57 PM	#4
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Not all flash traffic will be in your area but sometimes you get on that is very close...Hot Damn! Full bore flank, the chase is on! One member said there is no traffic in RSRD. Lurker who created RSRD posted up a picture of the traffic he implemented. There were ships everywhere. You just have to think logically as to what the shipping lanes would be for that particular time of the war. Patrol and they will come Currently I'm playing cold stone stock. My first patrol point presented three convoys on the way. Needless to say I was out of torps before I hit the first patrol area. I returned to port for reload. I bit unrealistic but some like to play this way so with RSRD we can get the best of both worlds. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-28-08, 10:03 PM	#5
Quillan Samurai Navy Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 579 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I was out on my last patrol using TMO and RSRDC, heading over towards the East China Sea from Midway, when I got one of those flash traffic messages, informing me of IJN ships redeploying to home waters from Rabaul. They gave me a suspected location and intercept time, which happened to only be about 100 miles away and pretty much where I was heading towards anyhow, so I made a slight detour on my deployment. 28 hours later, here comes 4 ships on radar. Turned out to be 2 DDs and 2 Kongo BBs. I fired six torpedoes at the lead Kongo, hit with 5, sank it, and managed to evade. GOD, did that feel good! __________________ We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.