So how do you determine who gets that purple heart?

Especially if EVERYONE (or just about everyone) becomes highlighted once you pick up the medal?

For that matter, ANY medal (Navy Cross, etc) when TONS of your people light up for it?

Damn, I hate paperwork..........

[SteamWake]

Well when it comes to medals in general I sort of roleplay it.

After all it doesent make a tremdous amount of difference as to game play.

Ranking officers get them first.

Then its whomever contributed the most to the mission, lookouts, torpedo room folks, sonar / sound stack, etc.

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Well when it comes to medals in general I sort of roleplay it.

After all it doesent make a tremdous amount of difference as to game play.

Ranking officers get them first.

Then its whomever contributed the most to the mission, lookouts, torpedo room folks, sonar / sound stack, etc.

Yeah, but that's what makes it a "rough" decision - I've got the best crew in this man's navy.

Repairs are done double time (even when, on an earlier mission I thought I was ready for the big save-game file in the sky, my DC team managed to pull my fat out of the fire (or deep, as it were), my gun crew can pick a fly off your hat at 20 yards, deck gun crew seems to be able to load and fire faster than anyone out there, so yeah, there's a lot of good cheer for everyone.

That's what makes it hard to determine who gets and who doesn't. We're all a buncha deadly seadogs.

[Diopos]

Pin it on Bernard and go on to the next mission!

[Sailor Steve]

Zayphod, are you saying everyone on your sub was wounded? If that's the case, then they would all get the Purple Heart.

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Zayphod, are you saying everyone on your sub was wounded? If that's the case, then they would all get the Purple Heart.

That's what should happen, but I think the game treats the Purple Heart like it's a discretionary medal to be awarded to whomever the captain sees fit.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

That's what should happen, but I think the game treats the Purple Heart like it's a discretionary medal to be awarded to whomever the captain sees fit.

It treats all medals in this manner.

In fact the 'default' medals dont represent any 'real' medals at all.

[Sailor Steve]

Great.

I knew about all the medals looking like nothing from the real world, but that Purple Heart problem is annoying. Just the opposite from SH3, where you could only award the 'Wound Badge' to someone who was actually wounded, but if the medic completely healed him he was no longer wounded, so you wouldn't be given the option back at base.

[Task Force]

Easy, tell the medic to go to the torpedo room and stay there, If the dosent like that, lock him in a torpedo tube.

[Seminole]

I don't make any pretense about who gets what. I just toss them out to the closet availble recipient..sorta like feeding chickens their mash.

My crewmen have more medals than Boyscouts have merit badges. It is so ridiculious it doesn't merit much thought or attention IMHO.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Seminole

I don't make any pretense about who gets what. I just toss them out to the closet availble recipient..sorta like feeding chickens their mash.

My crewmen have more medals than Boyscouts have merit badges. It is so ridiculious it doesn't merit much thought or attention IMHO.

Im not far from this ... see my response above. I do 'roleplay' it a little in as much the ranking officers get first 'peck' :rotfl:

[aanker]

I don't know - I think the crewmen who deserve them 'like' medals. It's crew management after all .... lol

The Purple Heart changes to the Bronze Star Medal after modding the medals which makes a lot more sense IMO. The crew or I haven't seen a Purple Heart since March 2008.

First I tried "Midnighte1977's" realistic Decorations:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=133310

Then in April I found Ducimus' medal fix on the kickinback forum
(http://forum.kickinbak.com/index.php) in the "Duci's Scratchpad" section which is great and what I'm using now. Scroll down to Apr 01, 2008 11:27 pm.
http://forum.kickinbak.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=303
The box on the desk in the office doesn't work in my install but no 'biggie'

After this career is over there is a new medals fix by "CapnScurvy" that I want to try that includes the Navy Commendation Medal.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=142241

Anyway - I prefer handing out the Bronze Star Medal to the crew instead of the Purple Heart... especially if they haven't been injured.

Art

[Leo_93]

I suppose you could just try to remember who got wounded in the first place and give it to them. Also I thought I heard somewhere that giving out metals can somehow effect the crew members performance or something.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Sub Ace

I suppose you could just try to remember who got wounded in the first place and give it to them. Also I thought I heard somewhere that giving out metals can somehow effect the crew members performance or something.

Here is a hint... the watch crew.

It really doesent matter if they were on watch or not.

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

That's what should happen, but I think the game treats the Purple Heart like it's a discretionary medal to be awarded to whomever the captain sees fit.

Yup, that's exactly what happened. I took a DC and suddenly, everyone's injured (minor, mind you, just about everyone recovered within 5 minutes), so when it comes time for the purple heart, naturally, "everyone" qualified for it.

Unfortunately, I couldn't remember who was injured more (i.e., the people who took a few days to recover), since those would be the people who obviously deserved it more.