Help! No Ships Spawn.

Maphisto86 · 07-14-18, 07:55 PM

Thank you both Xenonsurf and Sailor Steve for your input. I haven't attacked ships in port as of yet and won't based on your feedback. I suspect the problem may be that I have "Indian Ocean Campaign files only" activated in JSGME. If I want to do the Indian Ocean campaign when should I activate that mod?

I don't know why the "NULL" grid patrol option is occuring or why I cannot change it in SH3 Commander. However, I found something of a fix by simply docking immediately after mission loads. It costs me a patrol but fixes that problem. Oh and I always set SH3 Commander to automatically roll back.

XenonSurf · 07-14-18, 07:58 PM

As Sailor Steve said, if you play outside of Atlantic or med sea, then you must load special traffic files with GWX. It's explained in the manual, and it warns that you won't have traffic elsewhere, so if you are finished patrolling there (Black Sea, Indian Ocean, Pacific) you must take these mods out again.
Read 'Scripted Campaign Enhancements' section of the manual p. 181 and forward.

If you have changed mods, then you MUST be in port already, roll back commander immediately when launching it, then close and relaunch it, start game with it. If you are not in port it's no good to make changes in Commander (except the 'set days in port') and you simply launch game with SH3 shortcut.

Maphisto86 · 07-14-18, 09:09 PM

Thank you to both of you. I need to read more of the manual obviously!

The 'Indian Ocean campaign only' mod was the obvious culprit. I should have figured that out but I assumed it meant the Indian Ocean campaign files and not a merged campaign. To save future headaches I might activate 'Merged Campaign' despite the longer wait times.

07-14-18, 07:58 PM	#2
XenonSurf Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Germany, Italy Posts: 1,721 Downloads: 107 Uploads: 4	As Sailor Steve said, if you play outside of Atlantic or med sea, then you must load special traffic files with GWX. It's explained in the manual, and it warns that you won't have traffic elsewhere, so if you are finished patrolling there (Black Sea, Indian Ocean, Pacific) you must take these mods out again. Read 'Scripted Campaign Enhancements' section of the manual p. 181 and forward. If you have changed mods, then you MUST be in port already, roll back commander immediately when launching it, then close and relaunch it, start game with it. If you are not in port it's no good to make changes in Commander (except the 'set days in port') and you simply launch game with SH3 shortcut. Last edited by XenonSurf; 07-14-18 at 08:19 PM.

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07-14-18, 07:55 PM	#1
Maphisto86 Seaman Join Date: May 2018 Location: Clarington, Ontario, Canada. Posts: 42 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	Thank you both Xenonsurf and Sailor Steve for your input. I haven't attacked ships in port as of yet and won't based on your feedback. I suspect the problem may be that I have "Indian Ocean Campaign files only" activated in JSGME. If I want to do the Indian Ocean campaign when should I activate that mod? I don't know why the "NULL" grid patrol option is occuring or why I cannot change it in SH3 Commander. However, I found something of a fix by simply docking immediately after mission loads. It costs me a patrol but fixes that problem. Oh and I always set SH3 Commander to automatically roll back.

07-14-18, 09:09 PM	#3
Maphisto86 Seaman Join Date: May 2018 Location: Clarington, Ontario, Canada. Posts: 42 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	Thank you to both of you. I need to read more of the manual obviously! The 'Indian Ocean campaign only' mod was the obvious culprit. I should have figured that out but I assumed it meant the Indian Ocean campaign files and not a merged campaign. To save future headaches I might activate 'Merged Campaign' despite the longer wait times.