Mid-1943, no targets

[XenonSurf]

I'm having the same problem early in the war where I departed from Pearl Harbor towards the Marshall Islands. I have found a single corvette patrolling on a totally illogical route, first I thought that it was protecting a much bigger convoy, so I let it go and headed towards the opposite route, but I found nothing.
At the moment my impression is: you could find traffic everywhere by chance or not at all, but the chances should (in theory) be increased on historical routes that you are not supposed to know! You can know about routes if you launch the Radio which comes with a giant map listing all important convoy routes in the war and even enemy air coverage.


FORTSU is said to have much increased traffic compared to TMO, that must be true but I have yet to see that.


XS

[Red Devil]

I think the busiest route for jap ships is down the east coast heading towards Okinawa or into the E China Sea, but again, its up to the software.

[Col7777]

I mentioned in an other thread about triggers.

I'm not sure if SH4 has this or not, but I seem to remember in SH2 if you did time excel it triggered an aircraft which in turn triggered a warship.

Sometimes it triggered more ships using the time excel, I guess it isn't implemented in SH4, be good it it was.

Having said that I also mentioned the annoying thing when you are patrolling a certain area and get a radio message of a large convoy hundreds of miles away.

Col.

[XenonSurf]

Originally Posted by Col7777

I mentioned in an other thread about triggers.

I'm not sure if SH4 has this or not, but I seem to remember in SH2 if you did time excel it triggered an aircraft which in turn triggered a warship.

Sometimes it triggered more ships using the time excel, I guess it isn't implemented in SH4, be good it it was.

Having said that I also mentioned the annoying thing when you are patrolling a certain area and get a radio message of a large convoy hundreds of miles away.

Col.

Well, at some point seeing no traffic after 30 days where my mission didn't show completed, out of frustration I stopped my boat at a logical point where the traffic should come from Japan, and I raised the time compression to maximum x4096. My fast computer allows this. If it's good for the game I doubt, but this didn't spawn more traffic for me. In 30 days in my patrol area all I found in the Marshall Islands were 1 misery single destroyer (I wondered what he was doing here heading in the open ocean...) and 1 corvette. I cannot even complain, because it reflects reality. Problem is you cannot move very much because leaving your patrol area will not complete your mission objective, that's the real drawback.


XS