too much armed merchants - where to change ?

[Kpt. Fasser]

Hi,

i am playing the second campaign at the moment (03/1940). i want to change the armament of the merchants, because approx. 80% of the bigger merchants (regardless of convoi or single ship) are armed with a deck gun (bow & rear), which is afaik not historically correct.

can this be changed to a more realistic percentage ? where ?

thx

[bigboywooly]

Yes can be done
Ship by ship

C:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 5\data\Sea\

Inside are all the ship folders

Lets open the NLL - Liberty

Open the EQP in notepad

[Equipment 1]
NodeName=M01
LinkName=NULL < No gun on node
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19400131 < no gun ends this date

[Equipment 2]
NodeName=M01
LinkName=4.5In_Mk9_US < now has a gun
StartDate=19400201 < which started on this date
EndDate=19451231

[Equipment 3]
NodeName=M02
LinkName=NULL
StartDate=19380101
EndDate=19400131

[Equipment 4]
NodeName=M02
LinkName=4.5In_Mk9_US
StartDate=19400201
EndDate=19451231

ETC

You can change the end date for the NULL entry and the start date for when has a weapon



Need to go thru them myself as all those searchlights in a convoy is a killer
Blinding -
NodeName=L01 ( L is usually Lights\M is usually main guns\S = secondary\A = Anti aircraft\W is usually depth charge,anti sub weapons and T is normally torpedo tubes )
LinkName=reflector_base

Ignore the commented out lines
;[Equipment 23]
;NodeName=P01
;LinkName=char2_CIVSailor

Tis where the devs just used the SH4 EQP

Hope that helps

[gimpy117]

yeah seems a bit early for the brits to have that many armed merchants to me...