Neutrals in a Convoy

[Slateford-5]

I'm in the middle of an enemy convoy, lining up 2 large merchants who are almost in line, one about 400 behind the other. I fire 2 torpedoes at each. So far so good. I dive.

The nearest merchant almost immediately goes down. 60 seconds later there is an explosion and cheering. Then another 60 seconds another explosion. The crew is cheering, but this doesn't quite seem right. Shortly afterwards, there are 3 sunk ship icons on the nav map, 2 red and 1 green. I escape the game and it is clear that in addition to sinking the two merchants, I have also hit and sunk a much smaller neutral (typical: I have fired 3 fish at a small merchant before and it sailed on...)

Replayed the attack, but checked the flags more closely: the merchants are British OK, but a small merchant gets in the way of one of the torpedoes and it's Norwegian (British merchant navy and Norway flags are not the easiest to distinguish at night). Exactly the same thing happens again. Now I am wondering: can you really class a merchant in the middle of an enemy convoy as "neutral"? More than a week previously, there was a message from BdU saying all ships were fair game except American: was that just for show?

Would I be penalised renown for the neutral?

Any thoughts welcome

[SmokinTep]

Neutral means neutral. Doesn't matter if they are in a convoy of enemy ships.

[Canovaro]

I had the same thing and it sucks when that happens because instead of the renown being added, it is drawn. To be honest, I edited some file and changed the renown.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by SmokinTep

Neutral means neutral. Doesn't matter if they are in a convoy of enemy ships.

I disagree. In the Real Deal if they were in a convoy they were fair game.

Slateford-5, do what I did. Go into your My Computer/Program Files/Ubisoft/Silent Hunter III/Data/Cfg folder, and click on the file marked 'Basic'. The third group, right near the top, is [Renown]. Right near the top of that you'll see the awards:

NEUTRAL=-1
ALLIED=1
AXIS=-10

Change it so it says NEUTRAL=0

That way you still won't get a reward for poaching on neutrals, but you won't get a serious ding for sinking one in a convoy. You will still have an incentive to avoid them if you can.




Oh, and WELCOME ABOARD!

[mcf1]

Happened to me to. I torpedoed a US C3 cargo by accident and started to pray that she won't sink, luckily she didn't so there was no penalty for me

[msalama]

Change it so it says NEUTRAL=0

Done! Thanks Steve

[ozzysoldier]

if you are in a convoy you are fare game
made gwx cane solve this in 2.1

[Penelope_Grey]

Only danger of this is... some unscrupulous people may use that as a chance to sink every neutral they find just to get the tonnage from it.