What do you mean there's a canal?!?!?!?

[andylegate]

I love it when I do this.

I have been playing Mystonline: Uru Live for a while (bear with me, I'll get to the point in a second), and not too long ago, I found out about something that had been in plain sight for over 3 years that I never knew about! Which of course made we have to do something the hard way over and over again. When I found out about the thing I had been missing for over 3 years, I felt like throttling someone!
I vowed that would not happen again. Never!

So there I was. GWX just installed, starting a new career. I picked my home base of Kiel as I wanted to start off with a VII U-boat.
I didn't bother to read the PDF manual. Big mistake.

So, I spend 8 patrols, count 'em, 8! leaving Kiel going up and around the Denmark penesula each and every time. Finally I transfered to another port, and then ended up in Lorient anyways. Yay! No more long, tedious sea and anchor details!

Then yesterday I finally broke out the GWX manual and was reading through it.

Canal........

Kiel Canal..........

THERE'S A CANAL I COULD HAVE BEEN USING ALL THAT TIME????? SON-OF-A........!

Well.....at least it didn't take me 3 years to find out about this one! :rotfl:

[danlisa]

Did you read that there is also an 'Auto Plot' option?

Saves time plotting the Canal outbound & inbound.

Don't forget to duck going under the bridge.

[andylegate]

Yep! I saw that option too!

I remember going under the Cooper River bridges in Charleston, SC. It ALWAYS looked like the mast was going to hit!

[Foghladh_mhara]

Theres another Kanal separating England and France. You should try it

Its a great laugh

[panzer 49th]

Originally Posted by danlisa

Did you read that there is also an 'Auto Plot' option?

Saves time plotting the Canal outbound & inbound.

Don't forget to duck going under the bridge.

Can't find it in the manual where or how do I turn this on?

[Letum]

Did some one mention the English Chanel?


Stay out of it!

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by panzer 49th

Can't find it in the manual where or how do I turn this on?

Before you even move from your starting position in Kiel, goto the Nav Officers orders, choose Plot Search Pattern and you will find Kiel Outbound & Kiel Inbound. Press the button, the course will plot and all you need to is set speed and choice Follow Plotted Course.

[XLjedi]

Originally Posted by danlisa

Before you even move from your starting position in Kiel, goto the Nav Officers orders, choose Plot Search Pattern and you will find Kiel Outbound & Kiel Inbound. Press the button, the course will plot and all you need to is set speed and choice Follow Plotted Course.

I realize I'm probably preaching to the choir here...

But just as a side note to others... When coming back, this might suggest that you need to put your sub on the dot before giving your nav ofcr the order to plot the return. Not so.

Remember, the nav ofcr will plot the track at the end of your already plotted waypoints. So you can be several hundred miles out, and just zoom in on the black dot, put your last nav waypoint on it and then execute the order to plot the canal return course from that last waypoint position.

Incidentally, same is true if you should happen to wander out of your sub pen in kiel before plotting the exit course. Just put a waypoint on the black dot and then plot the course. You can just delete the one or two extraneous waypoints that are in or close to the sub pen.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by andylegate

Kiel Canal..........

THERE'S A CANAL I COULD HAVE BEEN USING ALL THAT TIME????? SON-OF-A........!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Thanks for the laugh mate. Really needed one today.

<There are other terrain modifications in GWX too, Scapa Flow area, then the Suez and Panama canals.>

[andylegate]

Thanks for the laugh mate. Really needed one today.

<There are other terrain modifications in GWX too, Scapa Flow area, then the Suez and Panama canals.>

Yer welcome! Always love sea strories myself too!

Panama, Panama, hmmmmmmmmmmmm........

*thinks about trying to get U-108 through an American controlled canal in 1942 onwards...... *

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by andylegate

Yer welcome! Always love sea strories myself too!

Panama, Panama, hmmmmmmmmmmmm........

*thinks about trying to get U-108 through an American controlled canal in 1942 onwards...... *

Hi!

The Panama Canal is fairly well-defended.

Pablo

[danlisa]

@ Pablo

ROFLMAO

[minute]

Is it actually possible to pass trough the Suez Canal? (can't check at the moment) I guess Port Said is infested with destroyers... I can't think in RL would have been possible either.... Imagine the surprise of the lock master - "Hey, John, we seem to have caught a rather large fish here... "

[XLjedi]

Actually... I don't think you missed too much...

To me, the Kiel Canal is really only useable if you also mod the config file to allow 128x TC for land proximity. Otherwise it takes forever to traverse the thing at 8x TC. Even though I knew about the canal, I would take the long way cuz I just didn't feel like taking a half-hour outta my precious gaming time to go through it.

I finally did go ahead and set land proximity to 128x but only had like 2 patrols before BdU moved me over to France.

[deamyont]

I thought you asked "There is a channel?" first, and I was like...

STAY OUT OF IT