A little trick to finding your home port

[ReallyDedPoet]

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[banjo]

Thank you so much. This just happened to me and I wondered where to look to find out my new base.

[Frank Smith]

Originally Posted by FlyingThermos

Most have probly noticed that while on patrol your home base will change. Sometimes you will get a message informing you that it has changed, but most the time you wont.

If you are not sure where to dock to finish your patrol open up in notepad(default location):

mydocuments/sh4/data/cfg/savegames/<savegame folder>/careertrack.upc

search the text for CSS_BaseChange

the LAST OCCURANCE of this text will be the base that you can dock at and look something like this:

[CareerTrack 1.CareerStatusSave 29]
ID=ID
Reason=CSS_BaseChange
NameDisplayable=
CurrentDate=1942-04-24 00:00:00
BaseIDLink=Brisbane

So in this case my base will be Brisbane and i would be allowed to end my patrol there.

Hope this help some folks out; cause it sure drove me nuts.

Thanks a Million, I have tried docking at Brisbane 5 times. and you link tells me I should be in Fremantle.
MAny thanks

[Bear]

Thank You, Thank You. Man you are a life saver. I was thinking that something had screwed up in the program. I didn't get any message about a base change. After I read your post I looked up my base - sailed there and me and my Balo were mothballed in the middle of 43; ain't that a birch.:rotfl:

[mbthegreat]

nice one, it has been a major kick in the teeth to limp 1000s of miles with major damage to find my base has moved

[Frank Smith]

Great, perfect Now I can change base and Dock... but what do you do after you have been at the same Patrol Area 5 times and they send you back, reason: I can not make it say I have finished the Patrol. Gads Marshal Island is where Amelia Earhart went down, maybe you can make a RESCUE downed fliers there... have traveled around Marshal Is's, West 7 blocks south 5 blocks and very little is there.
HELP on Marshal Island Patrol appreciated...

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Frank Smith

Great, perfect Now I can change base and Dock... but what do you do after you have been at the same Patrol Area 5 times and they send you back, reason: I can not make it say I have finished the Patrol. Gads Marshal Island is where Amelia Earhart went down, maybe you can make a RESCUE downed fliers there... have traveled around Marshal Is's, West 7 blocks south 5 blocks and very little is there.
HELP on Marshal Island Patrol appreciated...

Patch notes

• Eliminate the instances where the player gets assigned the same mission multiple times, even though the game is meant to give you variety and different missions, of course depending on historical context.

[Frank Smith]

Thanks, Have installed v 1.1 patch... testing it, nice to have outside port to leave with. That is NICE. tested v 1.2 patch - clean install from CD. install v1.2 downloaded from UBISOFT site... total mess, blue/brown stripes, can only fire 1 torp. - fix install patch 2 times... strips go away . can fire 2 torps ... then failure..
everything else works great Deskgun, AA twin 20mm, torps are messed up.. even with 100% total clean install - no saved games - then instal v 1.2 patch reboot then install v 1.2 patch again... stripes gone, can fire only 2 torps... even in quick , and pre games and school ...
checked torps file seems to be 100% same as SHIII. no problems there. So back to SH4 & v1.1 patch. still can not complete Marshall Is patrol.
System Configuration :
AMD 64 CPU AM2 : AMD Athlon 64 x2 4600+ (Dual Core) AM2 1024K Cache
AMD 64 AM2 Motherboards : ASRock ALiveSATA2 K8T890, PCI-EX, DDR2,Sound, LAN
DDR2 memory : 2GB (2x1GB) PC4200 DDR2 533 Dual Channel
PCI-Express Video cards : GeForce 7600GS 256Mb PCI EXpress 16X dual
SATA 2 80GB HD.

Thanks for all the GREAT HELP.

[SteminDemon13]

woops, wrong reply

[roofinrobert]

Thank you for this info.
I had been cruising around trying to find a port to end patrol for quite some time,refitted and sunk many ships in my little quest but got tired of not knowing where to end patrol.
This helped alot.
Thanks again.

[Melonfish]

to be honest i just follow my messages?
failing that the large blue anchor icon usually suffices... bugger going home anyway refit and fight on!
pete

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Melonfish

to be honest i just follow my messages?
failing that the large blue anchor icon usually suffices... bugger going home anyway refit and fight on!
pete

Holy necropost batman !

Anyhow... Unfortunatly you dont always get the message or it is easly missed amongst all the contact spam.

Damage to your hull structure cannot be repaired anywhere but your home port. If you have hull damage you MUST return to home port or take your chances on the 'sudden mysterious catastrophic damage' "bug". Not really a bug but it happens.

From a 'role playing' point of view your sailors are going to want to go home sooner or later.

But its a game. Play it the way that YOU have fun with and enjoy !

[Iron Budokan]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Thanks for the tip its a good one.

I dont think that having to dig through a games data file to find your "home base" is exactly a nice feature though.

Agreed. It would be nicer if the game did this for you.

[Digital_Trucker]

If you use billkos damage analyzer ( http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...light=analyzer ), it tells you what your current base is. If you lose track of your base, just save your game, alt-tab out and run the app, select the save file you just created and it will tell you what your home base is. It's also a wonderful tool to keep you informed about your boats damage status.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

If you use billkos damage analyzer ( http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...light=analyzer ), it tells you what your current base is. If you lose track of your base, just save your game, alt-tab out and run the app, select the save file you just created and it will tell you what your home base is. It's also a wonderful tool to keep you informed about your boats damage status.

That little ditty came out a looooong time after this thread was started.

A bit of topic DT but your sig stretching the margins is getting a tad annoying.