With 100% realism I did not get any renown for my first patrol

[CjStaal]

I am on 100% realism. For my first patrol I went to my grid, patrolled for 24 hours, and then returned to port. I should have gotten around 500 renown but I received none. Is this a bug? This was before the war broke out.

[Sailor Steve]

1. There is a bug. You don't get the renown for returning to port; only for patrolling your grid.

2. Are you playing GWX? GWX removes the renown for reaching and patrolling your grid. You only get rewarded for ships you sink.

[Kip336]

GWX doesn't give you renown for staying in the patrol area anymore.

The reason GWX took this out is because some patrol grids are impossible (Mostly on land, too shallow etc.), so to make it fair, they give you a little bit more renown when you sink ships.

It's also a bit of a realism thing: U-boats didn't patrol a single square for a day and returned home - they would get ordered from location to location to patrol if there wasn't any targets, and would only return once fuel/provisions or torpedoes where out.
(Not 100% correct, but it gets the point across.)

[CjStaal]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

1. There is a bug. You don't get the renown for returning to port; only for patrolling your grid.

2. Are you playing GWX? GWX removes the renown for reaching and patrolling your grid. You only get rewarded for ships you sink.

Originally Posted by Kip336

GWX doesn't give you renown for staying in the patrol area anymore.

The reason GWX took this out is because some patrol grids are impossible (Mostly on land, too shallow etc.), so to make it fair, they give you a little bit more renown when you sink ships.

It's also a bit of a realism thing: U-boats didn't patrol a single square for a day and returned home - they would get ordered from location to location to patrol if there wasn't any targets, and would only return once fuel/provisions or torpedoes where out.
(Not 100% correct, but it gets the point across.)

I am playing GWX. This is good information. I won't bother going to my patrol grid anymore. No reason to. But really, what are the objectives now? Just go wherever the hell I want and destroy things?

[Kip336]

Originally Posted by CjStaal

I am playing GWX. This is good information. I won't bother going to my patrol grid anymore. No reason to. But really, what are the objectives now? Just go wherever the hell I want and destroy things?

Yes! Be more agressive!


Generally just sail around, look for big convoys and sink them.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by CjStaal

I am playing GWX. This is good information. I won't bother going to my patrol grid anymore. No reason to. But really, what are the objectives now? Just go wherever the hell I want and destroy things?

Yes, you can do that if you like. A lot of players do. In fact, with the stock game people often run into so many targets that they run out of torpedoes and never go to their grid anyway.

I, on the other hand, go to my grid and stay there. If I don't encounter any ships after a week, I use a dice-rolling system I developed myself to determine if BdU orders me to a new grid. I have had patrols where I saw no enemy ships at all. It happened in real life, and I've played subsims for so many years now that if it happens to me I kind of enjoy it. I also don't care about the renown because I don't use it for anything.

But that's just me.

[BigWalleye]

"Realism isn't about the settings. It's about how you play the game." - Rockin' Robbins

YMMV

[Zosimus]

I don't know. I always head toward my grid. If I run out of torpedoes on the way, then I never go to my grid. I spend my 24 hours in the grid, and then I head to where I know there are good pickings.