Understanding Medals/Renown/Badges in basic.cfg

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by RoaldLarsen

I should have made my question more specific.

Did you ever figure out the meaning of the SCORE lines in Basic.cfg that relate to promotion? You had determined that they did not correspond to current reknown.

The value you put in is the amount of renown required for an individual patrol needed to get a promotion, default it 500. Get 2000 renown and you get the max of 4, can always change that to something higher to slow the progress of your crews advancement. Here's a copy of the stuff in the basic.cfg and have commented on what each (relevant) thing means or how to change it:

[PLAYER_RENOWN]
AcademyBonus=1000
RankLevel0=500; SCORE
RankLevel1=1999; SCORE # minimum renown required for each promotional step
RankLevel2=3999; SCORE
RankLevel3=7999; SCORE
MedalScore0=2000;2 class, SCORE
MedalScore1=4000;1 class, SCORE
MedalScore2=10000; knight, SCORE
MedalScore3=25000; oak leaves, SCORE
MedalScore4=50000;swords, SCORE
MedalScore5=80000;diamonds, SCORE
MedalScore6=160000;all, SCORE #This was only awarded to 1 person ever (Hans Udel, Stuka Ace). If you look at his career and his accomplishments you'll quickly see that this medal really has no place in the game, or you need to have earned a extremely large amount of renown light years above and beyond the normal call of duty to get thi.

RankLevel4=15999; SCORE
RankLevel6=31999; SCORE #Need to make other mods for these next work, allows you to put in the correct rank progression instead of the games max default which is sorely wrong.

RankLevel7=63999; SCORE
RankLevel8=127999; SCORE
RankLevel9=255999; SCORE

[MEDALS_CREW]
RenownStep=250; RENOWN, u-boat badge how much renown you earn in a single partrol determines how many badges you can hand out.
SunkInPatrol=280000; TONNAGE, front clasp #if you want to make sure this doesn't come out before 44 put it at a high number, then manually change it to something like 60000-80000 when it actually became available
RenownStep2ndClass=20000; TONNAGE, IC 2nd
SunkInPatrol1stClass=30000; TONNAGE, IC 1st
SunkInPatrolGerman=60000; TONNAGE, GC
SunkInPatrolKnights=150000; TONNAGE, KC #Only a handful of crewmember ever earned a RK before becoming a captain, these shouldn't be handed out so easily. Personally I only use SHC when I feel that a crew member has done something to earn one rather than just being given one ingame.

[PROMOTIONS] #the amount of renown required for each patrol to earn a promotion
RenownStep0=500 #amount needed for the first promotion
RenownStep1=1000 #amount needed for the second
RenownStep2=1500
RenownStep3=2000 # if you prefer you can increase the amounts for each successive promotion such that you get promotions at a faster or slower rate.

If you wanted to be more martial you might have it look like such:
RenownStep0=500
RenownStep1=1500
RenownStep2=3000
RenownStep3=5000