Question about Radio Messages

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

Tedious, but you are being told that you risk drowning your deck crew and foundering the boat.

I wish SH3 modeled the real-life danger. A few 1WOs washed overboard and a flooded control room would excite a whole new chapter on tactics.

No wonder the guy doesn't get up there himself after surfacing. He's scared to death each time of drowning.

[Frontier359]

Originally Posted by Pisces

No wonder the guy doesn't get up there himself after surfacing. He's scared to death each time of drowning.

[Wreford-Brown]

Messages in the messages_en file are in the format: 19390815 1300 19390815 1500 1 100 20 @FdU@^All U-boats^1939/08/15|6th Flotilla is ordered to end firing practice and return to Kiel.

This means that the message will be sent between 1300 on 15 Aug 1939 and 1500 on 15 Aug 1939.

When I wrote my messages mods I had to scrub every single line of the messages_en file as there were a few errors in the stock file. A simple typo (such as 19390815 1300 19400815 1500) would mean the message is transmitted every time you load a game between 15 Aug 1939 and 15 Aug 1940.

If the problem happens again let me know what the message is (and what version of SH3 you're using) and I'll chase down the error.

[maillemaker]

I have noticed this a few times myself. It seems that if you load a game you will get all that days messages replayed to you.

Steve

[Wreford-Brown]

Originally Posted by maillemaker

I have noticed this a few times myself. It seems that if you load a game you will get all that days messages replayed to you.

Steve

19390815 1300 19390815 1500 1 100 20 @FdU@^All U-boats^1939/08/15|6th Flotilla is ordered to end firing practice and return to Kiel.

The bit in red means that the message is to be transmitted once, there is a 100% chance or receiving it and it will try and transmit the message every 20 mins. So if you load the game at 1401 on 15 Aug 1939 you will receive the message at 1420.