SH3 Commander (current v2.7)

[ToySoldier]

Hello out there!

First of all I want to say I use the Cmdr and I like it
Thx very much!!
This is great!

Now I hope I was kind enought to make a stupid question and get an answer to it

Is there a possibility to "alter" the personal files of my alter ego in the Cmdr?
Like birthplace, date of birth and may be career points?

And if please in a way that an old stupid layman, like me, can make it?

Thx!

In diesem Sinne
Gott mit Uns
Frank B. aus K.

[irish1958]

Originally Posted by ToySoldier

Hello out there!

First of all I want to say I use the Cmdr and I like it
Thx very much!!
This is great!

Now I hope I was kind enought to make a stupid question and get an answer to it

Is there a possibility to "alter" the personal files of my alter ego in the Cmdr?
Like birthplace, date of birth and may be career points?

And if please in a way that an old stupid layman, like me, can make it?

Thx!

In diesem Sinne
Gott mit Uns
Frank B. aus K.

JScones has answered this saying that any HTLM editor can do this. I am not sure where one can get it, however. Someone will know and tell us.

[Sailor Steve]

I've actually done it in WordPad. The problem now is, I don't remember where the files are. I've looked everywhere I could think of, but no luck. Sorry.

[emaluzer]

by opening your SH3 commander folder. Find the SH3Cmdr.ini file and edit this. You will see listed your carreer name, then the order goes: date of birth, birth place, picture #, Date of intake, Then the next are years you got promoted to your current rank.

[Sailor Steve]

:rotfl:

I KNEW it was in there somewhere! Thank you, emaluzer, for knowing where to find it.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by emaluzer

by opening your SH3 commander folder. Find the SH3Cmdr.ini file and edit this. You will see listed your carreer name, then the order goes: date of birth, birth place, picture #, Date of intake, Then the next are years you got promoted to your current rank.

While you're free to change any value you like, if you are historically minded then pls keep in mind that SH3Cmdr performs a series of complex calculations that generate dates that are reflective of RL (in other words, SH3Cmdr doesn't just make random dates up). So if you change your birth year, for example, you may find that all the other dates become historically incorrect. As I said though, this is only an issue and something to consider if you want "historically realistic" Kaleun dates.

[ToySoldier]

Morje Zusamme!

Mister JScones it is mostly that I´m a little local patriot!
So the only things I would like to "alter" is place of birth into "Köln"

And if possible as WO under a outher Kaleun
Because most of the Aces did work on a famous Boot or under a famous Kaleun.

And to be historical correct is that normaly before "you" get command of a Boot you have to be minimum 25, at the beginning of the war ... and both of my (new)Carrers I started with Cmdr where younger!

OLt z.S. Elmar Heidrich born: 11SEP16 get 1st Command of a Boot 10Aug40 so he was just 23 and 11 month.

OLt z.S. Harro Weiss born: 15JUL15 get first Command of a Boot 01Sep39 so this one was 24 an 1 month.

Nothing to offend you, and may be a thing which depend of the pic I choose?!

Maybe suggestions for 2.8

In diesem Sinne
Gott mit Uns
Frank B. aus K.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by ToySoldier

And to be historical correct is that normaly before "you" get command of a Boot you have to be minimum 25, at the beginning of the war ...

You may want to visit u-boat.net and review the careers of *real* Kaleuns, of which SH3Cmdr is based on.

[ToySoldier]

Hello out there!

[Klugscheißmodon]

The age of U-boat commanders

During the first years of the war there was a strict rule, that a commander had to be at least 25 years old. That's why "Teddy" Suhren, then already a Knights Cross holder, had to wait in a training unit for a few months until he became 25-year old.

Later in the war this limit was lifted and Leutnant zur See Ludwig-Ferdinand von Friedeburg became the youngest combat U-boat commander. He took over the command of U-155 on 15 August 1944. He was then 20 years and 3 months old. There were 3 others Leutnants who took over a boat while only 20 years old; Hans-Eckart Augustin (U-62), Gerhard Ady (U-704) and Hans-Joachim Dierks (U-14). They all commanded training U-boats only.
The oldest Commander was Fregattenkapitän Wilhelm Kiesewetter. He took over the command of the training boat UC 1 on 20 November, 1940. He was at that time 62 years old! In WWI Wilhelm Kiesewetter was Commander of SM UC-56.
The oldest Commander on patrol was Korvettenkapitän Georg von Willamowitz- Moellendorf, the well known commander of U-459, one of the Milk-Cows. He died in 1943 at the age of 49 years. The usual limit for combat-commanders was 40 years

as on http://uboat.net/men/crew/commander.htm

[klugscheißmodoff]

And Believe me I don´t want to be the know-it-all man of the nation and looks like the privat-idoit-of-the-villiage

In diesem Sinne
Gott mit Uns
Frank B. aus K.

[JScones]

Sigh.

"Teddy" Suhren actually took command of U-564 before his 25th birthday (albeit not by much). So did others. Whether they commenced combat patrols or sat around twiddling their thumbs is not really the point.

And this is where you are missing the point. You are assuming that every person who plays SH3 plays full combat from the first patrol. Some, like me, don't.

I always take at least one training patrol simply because I want to get my ObLt rank (an SH3 limitation) before starting my *real* career. This is gameplay compromise #1.

Starting in a combat flotilla instead of a training flotilla is gameplay compromise #2. There are limited flotilla slots that shouldn't be wasted.

Surprisingly, this is why all the setting changes SH3Cmdr makes are editable. So YOU can tailor it to suit YOU. THAT was the point of my earlier post. Don't like being under 25...change it. Just keep in mind that all dates are linked: there were promotion time-based rules as well.

There will be no changes in this regard in R2.8. I maintain what I stated above: if that brings the average age over the period 1939-45 down by ~12 months, then there's less for you to complain about later in the war, isn't there.

[ToySoldier]

It wasn´t my intention to upset you mate!!!!!
Please believe this!!!!

It was just a question!

I like and use the Cmdr very very well!!