How does giving out medals work? SHcmd

[Hanzberger]

I thought I read somewhere that medals in SHCmdr were meaningless as far as having any effect on the game. The game seems kinda of stingy when giving out medals. sorry I'm a lil confused. I haven not been giving out any medals thru Cmdr thinking it really was a waste of time.

Hi,

I also give away medals from game.. Well I also have a faint understanding in SH3Cmdrs give away medal sequence..

I don't like the option in there especially in assign of qualifications. You can basicly abuse this option and make all your petty officers hold specific qualification. Example: To assign every petty officer to repair qualification and so on..

[flag4]

...i seem to recall that giving your crew anymore than two qualifications is useless - because after that they fail to have any effect - and its doubtable that the second one also functions, but on this im not so sure.

i tend to apply my qualifications through the game and not SHCommander and sometimes when i feel they deserve it, a medal/promotion through SHCommander.

im not really sure how it all works in combination - SH3 and SHCommander?

but im sure someone here will - much better than me!!

[Hanzberger]

You may be right about assigning a 2nd qualification. I just did a run and had assigned one of my officers a medic qualification. Being that I am the only one here that use's a fatigue model. AnyHoo he didn't seem to have the effect I was looking for. As far as assigning your petty officers a qualification, I don't have a problem with that. On my Type II there isn't a large crew anyways. Plus if you do random crew transfers you may lose ppl.
I would assume these guys had some type of schooling to get here, right?

[Sailor Steve]

All you have to do is read the SH3 Commander User Guide:

A common question raised through forums has been "will my Crew Manager changes be recognised within Silent Hunter III?". To answer this question:

· awarding *any* qualifications to officers impacts compartment efficiency as if they were awarded via Silent Hunter III;

· awarding the *first* qualification to a Chief Warrant Officer impacts compartment efficiency as if awarded via Silent Hunter III;

· awarding subsequent qualifications to a Chief Warrant Officer, whilst being recognised in Silent Hunter III, has no effect in Silent Hunter III;

· awarding a qualification to a Petty Officer impacts compartment efficiency as if awarded via Silent Hunter III;

· awarding a qualification to a seamen, whilst being recognised in Silent Hunter III, has no effect in Silent Hunter III;

· awarding any medal or badge has the same effect as if awarded via Silent Hunter III;

· promoting/demoting has the same effect as if awarded via Silent Hunter III (although there is no demotion via Silent Hunter III);

So, only qualifications awarded to seamen or extra qualifications awarded to Chief Warrant Officers are, despite being recognised in the game, not effective in the game.

[Hanzberger]

Thanks yet again Steve.

[Sailor Steve]

Glad to help. Also, for future reference, to access the UG just open Commander and click on the '?' in the lower left corner.