Periscope destroyed after save game.

[MattM1121]

Greetings folks,

I'm using TMO 2.5 and RSRD. Last night I happened on a freighter during the day. I decided to use this time to practice using the sonar and mapping a ships course.

I was watching the ship though the main periscope and decided to save the game. I quit, had dinner, and then brought the game back up. However, after I loaded the save game it shows my periscope completely destroyed.

Is this a known bug? Or was there a series of events that happened that caused this?

I don't know if the scope was damaged before the save.

Thanks for any info.

-Matt

[Fish40]

I'm a RFB/RSRD player myself, but as a rule of thumb never save a game while submerged. Strange things may happen as a result. Some may say that they never encounter problems while saveing while submerged, but I don't take any chances.

[MattM1121]

Ah ha! That would explain a great many sub-space anomalies.

Thanks for the help.

-Matt

Originally Posted by Fish40

I'm a RFB/RSRD player myself, but as a rule of thumb never save a game while submerged. Strange things may happen as a result. Some may say that they never encounter problems while saveing while submerged, but I don't take any chances.

[Rockin Robbins]

Whattttt!!!!!!! After years of playing and this fairy tale of don't save while submerged, in contact with any vessel, in sight of shore, not facing Mecca, this is all garbage carried over from the bad old SH3 days. It no longer applies.

I've saved SH4 in all situations for the express purpose of breaking the game. I'm talking about submerged, in combat, in an enemy harbor, with torpedoes on the way to the target. The game saves flawlessly every single time. In five years I've not had a bad save for any reason I could identify except for saving, then changing my mods and trying to reload.

I've even done THAT on purpose to try to break the game and not even all kinds of mod changes hurt the save. You can safely do boat skins, HUD and plotting screen changes, keyboard reassigns and several other categories of mod installs and uninstalls without hurting your ability to run the saved game.

Forget all those fairy tales. They're about as effective as the NASCAR phobia about green cars, or a sailor's aversion to a cat on board, or not walking under ladders. Just save the game and play! That's what I've done for five years.

The game's save game function is virtually bulletproof! If you have a problem it comes from somewhere else.

[Fish40]

" They're about as effective as the NASCAR phobia about green cars, or a sailor's aversion to a cat on board, or not walking under ladders."


RR, don't forget having Bananas on board! Jeez, I was always under the impression that these "rules" still applied Glad to hear otherwise.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Fish40

" They're about as effective as the NASCAR phobia about green cars, or a sailor's aversion to a cat on board, or not walking under ladders."


RR, don't forget having Bananas on board! Jeez, I was always under the impression that these "rules" still applied Glad to hear otherwise.

Holy cow! I forgot about that one but remember seeing it on "Big Shrimpin'" Quick! Eat em now!

[MattM1121]

Sorry, didn't mean to start anything.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by donna52522

3/4 of my saves while in contact with enemy ships turns junk....and I am not superstitious, knock on wood. I have had plenty of save problems when saving in contact with enemy ships and so have many of my friends.

Many a times I have come back from a save with a "we're taking damage" report and "periscope destroyed"....and I was on the surface. I only save now when not in contact with the enemy.

Everyone has a different PC that runs the game differently....some may never have save problems while other are plagued with them. To find out how yours works, would be to purposely save in all situations and see what happens.

My experience base spans multiple computers. No problems. Ever.

By the way, greetings from Windows 8! Don't be impressed, it is not impressive. It's the SH5 of Windows. We go from a sophisticated and debonair Windows XP (hold on--have to go to Firefox on XP because the Metro Internet Exploder doesn't use multiple tabs (excuse me while I cheat wildly)...***8230; Oh @#$%$$ I can't open a tab for Photobucket to cut and paste the link......

Guess I can't do this post in Windows 8. We'll save here and continue in primitive, outdated Windows XP where you can actually get work done. Stay tuned....

Whew! Back home again. Let's proceed. Windows XP, sophisticated, capable, multitasking, civilized: You can work here!


Crap! That is so last year! Let's replace it with the whiz bang modern Windows 8, shall we?


There ya goes pals and gals! To be fair, you can choose from eight or so colors for your background. Metro doesn't multitask and yes those buttons have to be that big, no confusing photographic color pallet allowed, you MUST look at these garish and clashing colors. Why is this that way? Why, because cell phones are that way! Yes, Microsoft has found a way to turn your $1500 computer into a $50 cell phone. Everybody cheer! I had to leave Windows 8 just to make this post. What happens when you attempt to do real work? I'd just load up Windows 3.1 again. It was better.