Missing ship sinking confirmation (resulting in tonnage loss) in captain's logs

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by sharkbit

I just chalk it up to Bdu not giving me credit for the kill(probably happened a lot IRL).

The records hold more than one instance of a captain reporting a sinking, even swearing he saw it go down, and the ship limped into port two days later. I too just assume I was wrong, and call it bad luck.

[flag4]

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

From my last patrol report you will see that I sunk 3 ships (1 Granville,1 Med Cargo,1 Small Merch) for a total of 11.961 tonnes,and a renown score of 347.80.I know this because on my way back after the patrol ended I checked my patrol log (button k) to check the sinkings logs and record my tonnage on paper.However,when I got back to port I looked in the captain's logs and the game confirmed only 2 sinkings for a total of 10.124 tonnes and a renown score of 282.00 , a loss of 1.837 tonnes and 65.8 renown.
This is not a major loss but I would still like the game to account for the 3 sinkings instead of 2.In my experience this is the first time I have encountered this behaviour.
Any ideas what went wrong here and how I can edit the game (via patrol editor?) to correctly display the 3 sinkings? If this can't be done then at least I have all my patrol notes on paper confirming my kills.

Thanks.

sometimes saving in wrong enviroment does this. it has happened to me recently. also a mod conflict could mess about with the tally.

i had cranked up 20+ thousand tons after dispachting 3 black swans and having the convoy to myself at leasure - north of scotland. when i sent my patrol log in i saw the score, i was very pleased - took a screenie of it too. then the patrol logs were sent again after more sinkings but did not register on the screen. i ended up coming home with about 15.000.

i had saved between the black swan sinkings and chasing after the convoy, they were close and i suspected there might be a problem, and there was!

I would suspect something related to the Save function.
Maybe Jimbuna can figure it out.

[ryanglavin]

Originally Posted by Of the deep end

Ive only been playing a month, enough to get up to April 1940, but its happened to me once. I had just enough ammo to set a coastal merchant listing but it wouldnt sink so I racked up the time compression. It took about an hour to sink and I didnt get the credit. It must be down to the sinking time.

I've waited by a ship sinking for 24 hours (because I'm cheap and I husband my torpedoes), and its sinks and I still get credit. It might actually be time compression, but who knows?