How to finish a patrol / complete a mission ?

[gonzlor]

My patrol told me to patrol the sea of celebes, while I think i did... for about 2 weeks, sunk one merchant and one battleship, The objectives are still not complete.

What are the requirements? Do I have to do a SH3 and just do laps of one little block of the ocean for 24 hours?, because I thought I could roam around the whole area of the celebes sea, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Any ideas ?

Also, I spent so long out on that mission when I gave up and returned to manilla I was no longer able to dock, I can't remember being told to go somewhere else either, I ended up slogging it down to Indonesia , made it with about 10% fuel left too.

[gonzlor]

Anyone?

[Fat Bhoy Tim]

As for docking, you were parked over/near the blue anchor on the nav map yes?

[HannesGM]

had the same problem, either with the objective type 'Engage all merchant shipping in...' or 'patrol x sea' - the mission objective won't complete - so I just ignored it and went home. However, I found that in one mission, upon reloading, after having patrolled the area designated for quite some time prior to saving - the mission objective was suddenly completed.

So perhaps try patrolling the area for some time, save and load the save - maybe that'll do the trick?

And yes, you can't dock at Manila in that mission (I suppose it was the second mission with the Asiatic fleet? I had to patrol Celebes Sea in that one, too), you have to make your way to Soerabaya, as Manila has been captured by the Japanese.

[1mPHUNit0]

Yes correct...but very grrrr...this is not the way of doing games

[HannesGM]

I just ignore those objectives for now... loose some renown, but I make that up by sinking alot of capital ships. As I suggested, try reloading a save after having patrolled the area for a while - it worked for me once in the 'Engage merchant shipping' type mission. No idea why, though.

And I have no clue how large an area you are supposed to patrol, I don't think it's grid sensitive, though?

[Inflatablewoman]

Just to answer my own question, it appears in the mission file;

Radius=100.000000

Now I dont know if that value is in KM or in Nm.

100Km is 54Nm
100Nm is 185Km

I would prefer for the radius from the center point to be in Nm as it gives me more room to roam in. Anyone got any idea what the unit is?

Oh and time, is in minutes?

Time=2880.000000

That would mean I need to be on station withing the 100Whatevers for 48 hours, presuming the 2880 is in minutes?!?!

Anyone confirm this?

[Inflatablewoman]

I have the same problem. I am patroling the same square as ordered, detecting next to no traffic and constantly having to dive because of aircraft. It's very annoying. How big of an area can I patrol? The grid box or within a certain range of the mission objective?

I am getting very frustrated with the amount of aircraft spotted warnings... and thanks to having no gun ammo left I am without protection and have to cash dive everytime.

Any advice?

[Psyon]

Originally Posted by Inflatablewoman

I have the same problem. I am patroling the same square as ordered, detecting next to no traffic and constantly having to dive because of aircraft. It's very annoying. How big of an area can I patrol? The grid box or within a certain range of the mission objective?

I am getting very frustrated with the amount of aircraft spotted warnings... and thanks to having no gun ammo left I am without protection and have to cash dive everytime.

Any advice?

American Sub Commanders were quite independent. if no enemy sighted for a few days, they would move to find some. sometimes very far from the patrol area if they had the fuel for it. some skippers would run for days to check out a hunch of theirs.

also, patrol areas are huge, no grid system at all.

[MP]

I have been saving and loading the same mission to try and solve this issue. i have over 4 days in the boat, but still the mission wont complete (Again its mission 3 from a new career) I am partoling Celebes Sea. I have been around the orange star for ages now, sinking countless contacts. Still no grey star?

Is there a way to edit the save game file, I could in SH3. I have looked at my save game files, but cant find it.

[Von Hinten]

Just a thought: the option to have the navigator plot a search pattern is still in, maybe completing that one is enough? I'm on the 'getting agents ashore' mission myself so I have no idea if that actually works.

[Gildor]

A change in the patrol status is only triggered by "sending status reports"

At least once a day send a status report back to HQ. Example:

[Section 102]
FileName=data/Campaigns/Campaign/PatrolObjectives/Patrol Honshu 01/Patrol Honshu 01.mis
StartDate=19420401
EndDate=19451201
GameModes=Career
InclusionProbability=100
MinimumDifficultyRating=0
MinimumPlayerRating=-3
EntryFocalPointLong=16761500.000000
EntryFocalPointLat=4170000.000000
MaximumDistanceFromStartPoint=1500
ExclusiveLayer=Yes
ExclusiveLayerID=182
EvaluationReason=StatusReport <-------
AllMatch=PrimaryObjCompleted
PartialMatch=
PartialMatchingMinimumPercentage=
MinimumFuelPercentage=35
MinimumAmmoPercentage=25

The completion of the primary objective is determined by a Status Report.