help with fixing the shokaku sinking charactoristics

Originally Posted by Arclight

Cool, and sorry for before. When someone yells "fire" I run off for an extinguisher without knowing where to bring it; I tend to get ahead of myself.

I've been firing lots of fish at her, and basically anything hitting midship or further aft but still forward of the screws will sink her in 1 hit. Under the right conditions she'll even withstand 2 hits (above screws + the bow). I can post a list of my findings if you want.

I increased the Armorlevel and hitpoints like you did, but I set them to Yamato levels (96 armor, 1500 hp); hits that normally sink it in 1 shot tend not to anymore. Took me 3 hits last try: 1 hit on the first mast aft from center, and she lived! Second went in the bow, but didn't blow a hole, presumably because of higher armor level. Bow still sank a bit though. Third went far aft and finished her of. Think you can leave the armorlevels alone, just increase hitpoints so she can take more hits.

Also tried messing with the "SH3ZonesCtrl" stuff; you'll see "sphere's" and "boxes" listed there. I think they represent the compartments of the ship, and changing there individual armorlevel settings seemed to influence the ships sinking times.

Guess you need a 3d editor to see where those zones are actually located. There's also a "type" listing that lists a number. In zones.cfg there's an index where you can look up what type of area those numbers represent (I think). For instance, the first box, "box 0", is type 113 which would translate to "KeelBB" according to that index. "box 1" is type 188, "BBFuelBunkers" in the index, etc.

I'll pick this up tomorrow, 5 am by now...

yes thanks for helping, i was sticking to the auto target rather than trying different hit locations because i figured it was the best way to get constantly repeatable results. 1 meter left or right could or could not open different compartments that change results. the strange thing is if you look at the other fleet carriers the stock damage levels are all set the same (1 has a 50 hit point difference) so why they are acting so different is very strange.

as for the "boxes" i was afraid to mess with those things because i know nothing about what they are and how or if i could tell what any changes might do.