Understanding Medals/Renown/Badges in basic.cfg

[frau kaleun]

Okay, I am working on revamping my settings for all of this before I start playing again, and I have a question.

I would like to award myself the u-boat badge at the appropriate time by editing the appropriate file for my kaleun rather than letting the game give it to me, which it always does before I've ever earned it according to historical standards.

So I'm thinking of setting the 'SCORE' required for it in PLAYER_RENOWN to something ridiculous, like 99999, to avoid having the game give it out too early for my liking.

What I'm wondering is, in the unlikely event that I ever reach a score of 99999, and my player data files show I already have the badge, will that mess things up somehow (with the game trying to give me something I've already got)?

Or does awarding a medal/badge by manually editing the relevant player file completely override any possibility of the game wanting to award it again when the 'score' has been reached at some future point in the career?

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Okay, I am working on revamping my settings for all of this before I start playing again, and I have a question.

I would like to award myself the u-boat badge at the appropriate time by editing the appropriate file for my kaleun rather than letting the game give it to me, which it always does before I've ever earned it according to historical standards.

So I'm thinking of setting the 'SCORE' required for it in PLAYER_RENOWN to something ridiculous, like 99999, to avoid having the game give it out too early for my liking.

What I'm wondering is, in the unlikely event that I ever reach a score of 99999, and my player data files show I already have the badge, will that mess things up somehow (with the game trying to give me something I've already got)?

Or does awarding a medal/badge by manually editing the relevant player file completely override any possibility of the game wanting to award it again when the 'score' has been reached at some future point in the career?

The way that one is awarded can't be manually set in the basic.cfg file. If the game awards it to you and want to remove it, open the Careers and Careers_0 file in your documents/SH3/data/cfg/Careers/player name/ folder and set Medal7=-1 When you are ready to award it change it to Medal7=1 on the last patrol you just completed.

Here's mine atm and what each is:

Medal0=4 EK2
Medal1=5 EK1
Medal2=6 RK
Medal3=7 RK w/Oak Leaves
Medal4=8 RK w/Swords
Medal5=9 RK w/Diamonds
Medal6=-1 RK w/Gold Diamonds
Medal7=1 U-boat Badge
Medal8=2 Close combat Clasp
Medal9=-1 German Cross

Sometimes the game tries to award me the RK Gold, which right now my renown is only 110,000 and have that medal set to 160,000. Just go into that file and change the value back to -1 and it will remove the award from your box and won't show up in SHC when you create a new report.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Tessa

The way that one is awarded can't be manually set in the basic.cfg file. If the game awards it to you and want to remove it, open the Careers and Careers_0 file in your documents/SH3/data/cfg/Careers/player name/ folder and set Medal7=-1 When you are ready to award it change it to Medal7=1 on the last patrol you just completed.

I'm already aware of this, editing the files in the Careers folder is how I already do it to override the game's tendency to give me the u-boat badge earlier than would be historically appropriate.

I have a line in my basic.cfg showing SCORE requirements for Medal7 (u-boat badge), I am inquiring about editing (or perhaps removing entirely) that line in order to prevent the game from ever awarding the badge at all.

[Tessa]

To my knowledge that particular medal (medal7) was never in the basic.cfg file, and even when I tried adding it the game ignored the settings. Unforunately the only variables regarding medals that you can modify are the ones that are already there from the original install. Adding the others has never yielded any kind of success, or changing the values in the medals.cfg file either.

[VONHARRIS]

Ok , I am sorry to say but I really can't make this thing with the additional ranks work.
I have downloaded the mod and enable it plus I changed the basic.cfg file.
Result : Game crashed completely. I had to reinstall it.

Could somebody please instruct me how to do it PLEASE?

Thank you in advance.

Edit : I think I found something in another thread here. I will try it.

[VONHARRIS]

Update.

I am posting here because I don't want to make a new thread about the same issue.

Now , after installing the extra ranks and editing the .cfg files I managed to get demoted from Kptltnt to Oberltnt z. S. and promoted bacK to Kptlnt again and then nothing.
Check the screenshot


Any help will be mostly welcome.
Thank you all.

[Sailor Steve]

[QUOTE=VONHARRIS;1586555]Update.

I am posting here because I don't want to make a new thread about the same issue.

Now , after installing the extra ranks and editing the .cfg files I managed to get demoted from Kptltnt to Oberltnt z. S. and promoted bacK to Kptlnt again and then nothing.[QUOTE]
The two may not be connected. Have you spent renown on anything lately? It is a well-known problem with the way SH3 works that a certain amount of renown is required to attain a rank and that renown must be retained to keep your rank.