Any way to begin a mission in open ocean, instead of way upstream?

zygoma · 04-01-12, 08:07 PM

Honest, I searched as well as I could before asking, but when I set up my searches, I seem to get either zero hits or about 6 million......
Some of the home ports are wa-a-a-a-a-y up a convoluted narrow passage, and regardless of how many deck watch crew or speed or anything else I can think of, I can't use time compression to get out to sea much faster than just leaving TC=1.
I've tried 4 or five of the ways out of Bergen, and each time, it takes some considerable distance at lawn-chair-and-cigar-with-sunglasses speed to get to where I can open 'er up. Not that many enemy aircraft seem to make incursions into our bases, and damn few battleships try sneaking up the inlets.....
So is there a way I can begin a patrol (in a career) having already gotten out into open sea? As it is, the first thing I do once I make open water is to do a "save game" at that point, naming it "omw AN12" (whatever my patrol zone is) so I have a place to go back to if I get dead soon after I pull away from the coast.
Lorient (or St. Nazaire?) or one of the other French coast bases is nearly as bad. I should probably not be so impatient to take on ships with my faulty torpedoes and crew who can't pull a gun trigger if it's raining outside <sniffle!>
Thanks,
-- Zygoma --
__________________________________________________ ___
May the number of your submarine's surface operations exceed your dives by exactly one at the end of your career.

andwii · 04-01-12, 10:17 PM

with SH3 commander you have the option to start at sea. Also there is an all weather guns mod which I like to use but not when its very unrealistic to do so.

zygoma · 04-01-12, 10:42 PM

Andwii,
I've been putting off wiping and re-installing Windoze XP Pro (32) on my "real" machine long enough, until I could make sure I'd properly saved all my SH3 and Eve logs and data. Because of the problems I'd been having, I haven't put in any of the enhancements for SH3 yet except for the 1.4-DVD update.
Time to bite the bullet....err, warhead.....I s'pose, and avail myself of some of the cool add-ons that seemingly everyone else is using.
I'll be interested to see if I can run GWX under one directory, and some of the other acronym-laden versions separately so I can try out different versions.
Good to know there *is* a way to do what I want -- thanks very much for the quick response.
Cheers,
-- Zygoma --
______________________________________________
May all your submarine's surface operations exceed your dives by exactly one at the end of your career.

Sorta like I learned in ground school for private pilot: "Take-offs are optional; landings are mandatory."

Sailor Steve · 04-01-12, 10:50 PM

MultiSH3 will let you run several installations of the game separately from each other, so you can try all the supermods.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=1869

04-01-12, 08:07 PM	#1
zygoma Loader Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 84 Downloads: 66 Uploads: 0	Any way to begin a mission in open ocean, instead of way upstream? Honest, I searched as well as I could before asking, but when I set up my searches, I seem to get either zero hits or about 6 million...... Some of the home ports are wa-a-a-a-a-y up a convoluted narrow passage, and regardless of how many deck watch crew or speed or anything else I can think of, I can't use time compression to get out to sea much faster than just leaving TC=1. I've tried 4 or five of the ways out of Bergen, and each time, it takes some considerable distance at lawn-chair-and-cigar-with-sunglasses speed to get to where I can open 'er up. Not that many enemy aircraft seem to make incursions into our bases, and damn few battleships try sneaking up the inlets..... So is there a way I can begin a patrol (in a career) having already gotten out into open sea? As it is, the first thing I do once I make open water is to do a "save game" at that point, naming it "omw AN12" (whatever my patrol zone is) so I have a place to go back to if I get dead soon after I pull away from the coast. Lorient (or St. Nazaire?) or one of the other French coast bases is nearly as bad. I should probably not be so impatient to take on ships with my faulty torpedoes and crew who can't pull a gun trigger if it's raining outside <sniffle!> Thanks, -- Zygoma -- __________________________________________________ ___ May the number of your submarine's surface operations exceed your dives by exactly one at the end of your career.

04-01-12, 10:50 PM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	MultiSH3 will let you run several installations of the game separately from each other, so you can try all the supermods. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=1869 __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

04-01-12, 10:17 PM	#2
andwii Frogman Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Bridge of U-123 Posts: 300 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	with SH3 commander you have the option to start at sea. Also there is an all weather guns mod which I like to use but not when its very unrealistic to do so.

04-01-12, 10:42 PM	#3
zygoma Loader Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 84 Downloads: 66 Uploads: 0	Andwii, I've been putting off wiping and re-installing Windoze XP Pro (32) on my "real" machine long enough, until I could make sure I'd properly saved all my SH3 and Eve logs and data. Because of the problems I'd been having, I haven't put in any of the enhancements for SH3 yet except for the 1.4-DVD update. Time to bite the bullet....err, warhead.....I s'pose, and avail myself of some of the cool add-ons that seemingly everyone else is using. I'll be interested to see if I can run GWX under one directory, and some of the other acronym-laden versions separately so I can try out different versions. Good to know there is a way to do what I want -- thanks very much for the quick response. Cheers, -- Zygoma -- ______________________________________________ May all your submarine's surface operations exceed your dives by exactly one at the end of your career. Sorta like I learned in ground school for private pilot: "Take-offs are optional; landings are mandatory."