Do you have to return to base?

RayRay · 12-23-05, 01:04 PM

I used to sail back to base, but now I just checkout when I have completed my mission objectives and expended 99% of my torpedos.
Any thought on this.

Detritus · 12-23-05, 01:17 PM

No, you don't have to sail back. However, if you sail within 30km limit of your base and then exit patrol, you get a bonus of 100 renown for being such a good chap. Up to you.

Kalach · 12-24-05, 07:24 AM

I see getting back to base as proberly the most important part of your mission. Especialy so if your playing DiD style.
It can lead to some tense moments as you're coming back to base after a good patrol, with no torps left and perhaps some damage.

Ping Jockey · 12-24-05, 11:30 AM

It should be worth around 1000 pts if you make it back to port!!!

Hudsonhawk · 12-24-05, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Ping Jockey

It should be worth around 1000 pts if you make it back to port!!!

Well you can change that by going to the CFG/Basic folder.....and change it on your own...

Detritus · 12-24-05, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Kalach

I see getting back to base as proberly the most important part of your mission. Especialy so if your playing DiD style.
It can lead to some tense moments as you're coming back to base after a good patrol, with no torps left and perhaps some damage.

I agree, that's why I always sail all the way back, right to the port. After spending your last torps and got a permission to return to base, you can easily get a bit overexcited and go 'Devil may care' and try to rush back to base. After 1942, on the Bay of Biscay, this is the most sure way to get yourself killed. Seeing the friendly sheers with trees and stuff sure is welcome and worth the trouble.

12-24-05, 12:45 PM

I use Rubini's Harbor Traffic Mod, and I always save just before getting to port, take a nice break, and then enjoy the sights as I return home in real time. It's especially cool since loading the 16k mod. You can actually see the light from the lighthouses at almost 20 kilometers out when sailing into Kiel.

todd293 · 12-24-05, 01:23 PM

You have to sail back when your on 100% realism or you get the abondon career option.

Kentrat · 12-26-05, 05:48 PM

I always return to base, and do the approach in real time, gotta be done, you wouldn't want to disappoint all those nurses and the band now would ya? I'm wondering if late in the war if you could have the scenario in Das Boot where the allies attack the port with planes...I'm in early '43 currently so don't know what will happen..

Kentrat

Krupp · 12-26-05, 06:11 PM

Jumping into a Zeitkugel and going through a wormhole back to base takes the bottom out of this game IMO. But it still ain't anyone elses choice but yours.

Hartmann · 12-26-05, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Detritus

No, you don't have to sail back. However, if you sail within 30km limit of your base and then exit patrol, you get a bonus of 100 renown for being such a good chap. Up to you.

I think that must be more renown return to base

i change the renown to the same amount if i arrive to my patrol grid.

Dowly · 12-26-05, 06:35 PM

I just go withing 30km of the base and hit ESC. No point on going all the way, as my comp stutters alot when in harbors.

Safe-Keeper · 12-26-05, 06:36 PM

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I'm wondering if late in the war if you could have the scenario in Das Boot where the allies attack the port with planes...I'm in early '43 currently so don't know what will happen..

I don't think it's there, even in the Real U-Boat mod (I actually opened the scripts and random layers up in the mission editor, but I didn't see anything closely resembling fighters going for La Rochelle - at any time

). Funny, as that's one of the things people will be looking for.

However, it would, in my opinion, suck so badly to actually have that U-96 scenario happen to you. "Yay, I've sunk 4 merchants, a carrier, a light cruiser, and the USS Nimitz time-warping trough that cyan tunnel - and I made it home! Ye-haaa!" ...Then you die :rotfl: .

Kalach · 12-26-05, 06:47 PM

I had an old version of HT (would of been from about 2months ago) installed and started a patrol to test it, the base commander thought it was a good idea to send me out in the middle of the night though..
I was using TC to get to daylight so I could see all the nice ships in the harbour, at about 7am just after the sun had come up a swarm of bombers came and destroyed the entire base

.

So the HarbourTraffic mod will give you all sorts of wonderful suprises, but I haven't seen anything like that in the regular game.

gdogghenrikson · 12-26-05, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Ping Jockey

It should be worth around 1000 pts if you make it back to port!!!

:rotfl:

12-23-05, 01:04 PM	#1
RayRay Watch Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Zone X Posts: 27 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Do you have to return to base? I used to sail back to base, but now I just checkout when I have completed my mission objectives and expended 99% of my torpedos. Any thought on this.

12-24-05, 11:30 AM	#4
Ping Jockey Medic Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Arizona, USA Posts: 159 Downloads: 294 Uploads: 0	It should be worth around 1000 pts if you make it back to port!!! __________________ I joined the U S Navy in 1964. Saw the world and a lot more.

12-26-05, 05:48 PM	#9
Kentrat Torpedoman Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Sitting on the Becks crate scraping the mould off the bread... Posts: 112 Downloads: 116 Uploads: 0	Returning to base after missions I always return to base, and do the approach in real time, gotta be done, you wouldn't want to disappoint all those nurses and the band now would ya? I'm wondering if late in the war if you could have the scenario in Das Boot where the allies attack the port with planes...I'm in early '43 currently so don't know what will happen.. Kentrat

12-26-05, 06:11 PM	#10
Krupp Weps Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 351 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Jumping into a Zeitkugel and going through a wormhole back to base takes the bottom out of this game IMO. But it still ain't anyone elses choice but yours. __________________ "Gentlemen, we have no choice. Total engagement. Die with dignity."

12-23-05, 01:17 PM	#2
Detritus Navy Dude Join Date: May 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 177 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	No, you don't have to sail back. However, if you sail within 30km limit of your base and then exit patrol, you get a bonus of 100 renown for being such a good chap. Up to you.

12-24-05, 07:24 AM	#3
Kalach Weps Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 366 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	I see getting back to base as proberly the most important part of your mission. Especialy so if your playing DiD style. It can lead to some tense moments as you're coming back to base after a good patrol, with no torps left and perhaps some damage.

12-24-05, 12:45 PM	#7
Sailor Steve Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I use Rubini's Harbor Traffic Mod, and I always save just before getting to port, take a nice break, and then enjoy the sights as I return home in real time. It's especially cool since loading the 16k mod. You can actually see the light from the lighthouses at almost 20 kilometers out when sailing into Kiel.

12-24-05, 01:23 PM	#8
todd293 Seaman Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: ohio Posts: 32 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	You have to sail back when your on 100% realism or you get the abondon career option.

12-26-05, 06:35 PM	#12
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	I just go withing 30km of the base and hit ESC. No point on going all the way, as my comp stutters alot when in harbors.

12-26-05, 06:47 PM	#14
Kalach Weps Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 366 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	I had an old version of HT (would of been from about 2months ago) installed and started a patrol to test it, the base commander thought it was a good idea to send me out in the middle of the night though.. I was using TC to get to daylight so I could see all the nice ships in the harbour, at about 7am just after the sun had come up a swarm of bombers came and destroyed the entire base . So the HarbourTraffic mod will give you all sorts of wonderful suprises, but I haven't seen anything like that in the regular game.