Ship Names April 2011

[fitzcarraldo]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

First of all, the "ship class" you need to use is the one that designates that ship in the game - the ClassName - not the class to which it belonged in real life.

The ClassName for a ship can be found in the .cfg file inside its data\Sea folder. For VonDos' RMS Titanic as provided in WB's mod, the .cfg file looks like this:

[Unit]
ClassName=TIT
UnitType=103
MaxSpeed=23
Length=269
Width=28
Mast=52
Draft=15
Displacement=46328
RenownAwarded=890

[2DCompartments]
UnitPos=50,0,416,28
NbOfComp=4
Name1=Propulsion
Area1=52,0,23,26
Name2=Keel
Area2=150,0,237,7
Name3=Engines Room
Area3=193,9,45,17
Name4=Fuel Bunkers
Area4=163,9,28,17

That first line after [Unit] is what you need to look at with regard to adding the ship to your Ship Names .cfg file. So the ClassName for this ship is TIT. (You would pick that one. )

What you want to add to Ship Names is:

[TIT]
0001=RMS Titanic
0002=RMS Olympic

If you like you could also add the lines needed to generate cargo and crew info:

[TIT]
CargoTyp=29
CrewRange=850|870
0001=RMS Titanic
0002=RMS Olympic

The '29' indicates a 'cargo' of passengers; Wikipedia shows a crew of 860 for both the Titanic and a third Olympic-class ship, the Britannic, so that's where I got the crew range. Someone who knows better may have a different suggestion for that, I don't know.

You could in theory also add the Britannic to the list but apparently she never sailed as a passenger liner and went straight into service as a hospital ship in WWI, then was sunk by a mine in 1916. As a hospital ship she wouldn't fit the model for this ship in the game, but in a make-believe world where the Titanic is still available to be sunk by a u-boat in WWII - well, it's up to you. If it were me I'd just list her in a third line as

0003=HMS Britannic

rather than using the more historically accurate 'HMHS' as you wouldn't want to sink an ocean liner and then have it turn up in your logs with a hospital ship designation.

I don't know what display name you've added for the ship in your EnglishNames.cfg, but if you're going to let Commander choose from names other than 'RMS Titanic' for her I would suggest just using

TIT=Olympic class liner

in EnglishNames.cfg, that way you won't have a ship positively IDed by name in the game and then (maybe) given a different name in your patrol log.

Very clear, Frau Kaleun. I think Doenitz would win the war with conosseurs as you.

Really, I don´t know why WB select that "TIT" name for the class.

After the Cameron´s movie, I like to sink the Titanic...

Many thanks and best regards.

Fitzcarraldo

[Sailor Steve]

Great explanation, Frau K! Clear and concise. I would recommend a Cargo of 30, though, as if such ships were in service in WW2 they'd probably be carrying troops. You can also use both (29,30), or juggle the chance of which type by using more of one than the other (29,29,30,30,30).

In the other liners I use a multiple of those plus on chance of 'Mail/Packages' being listed: 23,29,29,29,30,30,30,30,30.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Great explanation, Frau K! Clear and concise. I would recommend a Cargo of 30, though, as if such ships were in service in WW2 they'd probably be carrying troops. You can also use both (29,30), or juggle the chance of which type by using more of one than the other (29,29,30,30,30).

In the other liners I use a multiple of those plus on chance of 'Mail/Packages' being listed: 23,29,29,29,30,30,30,30,30.

Excellent point about the troops, I kind of debated whether or not to stick a '30' on there. For some reason it just seemed odd to me to think of the Titanic that way, but if you're going to have her sailing around during WWII anyway it's all up for grabs and no doubt she would've been put into service as something other than a passenger liner. And I suppose Mail is always an acceptable option for any 'RMS' ship.

Except rereading that, it should probably be RMS Britannic if he's gonna add that name. Unfortunate typo on my part.

[Wreford-Brown]

Originally Posted by fitzcarraldo

Really, I don´t know why WB select that "TIT" name for the class.

Blame VonDos!

[fitzcarraldo]

Originally Posted by Wreford-Brown

Blame VonDos!

I´m sorry, WB. I believed that names were between your obsessions...

Thanks, Sailor Steve, for the tip of troop transport. I´ll make the Titanic and Olympic as liners in 1939 and troop transport from 1940 to 1945, via Commander.

Regards.

Fitzcarraldo

[Wreford-Brown]

Originally Posted by fitzcarraldo

I´m sorry, WB. I believed that names were between your obsessions...

It is the easiest of the lot to remember and still makes me giggle occasionally - I guess it hits the right spot in my puerile sense of humour...