Promotion Steps in GWX - I need some help

[JScones]

Originally Posted by melnibonian

If I set the rank up in main.cfg in C\My Documents\SH3 will it make a difference? Is there a way I can 'cheat' using SH3Cmd to pop up my rank?

You can change your rank anytime manually simply by incrementing the *last* PlayerRank value found in Careers_0.cfg (to force it to start from your next patrol).

13 will be the highest number you can go to. Although, you may be able to get to 14 by also making this change to *_menu.txt:

170=Leutnant z. S.; Oberleutnant z. S.
171=Oberleutnant z. S.; Kapitänleutnant
172=Kapitänleutnant; Korvettenkapitän
173=Korvettenkapitän; Fregattenkapitän
174=Fregattenkapitän;Kapitän z. S. <- add in orange text BEFORE semicolon

And if you change your rank this way, SH3Cmdr will be happy, as this is not across the board rank bumping - SH3Cmdr will simply see it as a promotion like any other.

Oh, you may need to tweak your renown so that you don't lose your new promotion, or alternatively lower the RankLevel3 value, but try without first.

Let us know how you go.

[melnibonian]

Thanks a lot Jaesen

I will try it once I'm back from work this afternoon

[melnibonian]

Originally Posted by JScones

You can change your rank anytime manually simply by incrementing the *last* PlayerRank value found in Careers_0.cfg (to force it to start from your next patrol).

13 will be the highest number you can go to. Although, you may be able to get to 14 by also making this change to *_menu.txt:

170=Leutnant z. S.; Oberleutnant z. S.
171=Oberleutnant z. S.; Kapitänleutnant
172=Kapitänleutnant; Korvettenkapitän
173=Korvettenkapitän; Fregattenkapitän
174=Fregattenkapitän;Kapitän z. S. <- add in orange text BEFORE semicolon

And if you change your rank this way, SH3Cmdr will be happy, as this is not across the board rank bumping - SH3Cmdr will simply see it as a promotion like any other.

Oh, you may need to tweak your renown so that you don't lose your new promotion, or alternatively lower the RankLevel3 value, but try without first.

Let us know how you go.

Both the Korvettenkapitän and the Fregattenkapitän ranks are recognisable and accepted by SH3Cmd. When I run GWX via SH3Cmd the game sees me as Kapitänleutnant but if I save and reload then the appropriate rank appears. It seems to be working fine. I haven't made changes to the RankLevel3 and my renown but I already had plenty to start with.

[Chisum]

Originally Posted by JScones

You can change your rank anytime manually simply by incrementing the *last* PlayerRank value found in Careers_0.cfg (to force it to start from your next patrol).

13 will be the highest number you can go to. Although, you may be able to get to 14 by also making this change to *_menu.txt:

170=Leutnant z. S.; Oberleutnant z. S.
171=Oberleutnant z. S.; Kapitänleutnant
172=Kapitänleutnant; Korvettenkapitän
173=Korvettenkapitän; Fregattenkapitän
174=Fregattenkapitän;Kapitän z. S. <- add in orange text BEFORE semicolon

And if you change your rank this way, SH3Cmdr will be happy, as this is not across the board rank bumping - SH3Cmdr will simply see it as a promotion like any other.

Oh, you may need to tweak your renown so that you don't lose your new promotion, or alternatively lower the RankLevel3 value, but try without first.

Let us know how you go.

Many thanks !!

Question.
It seems that the maximum still FregattenKapitan because "175=Exit To Menu".
No way out.

But, if I change all to begin the career(1939) with a level over Oberleutnant(ie: 164=Oberleutnant z. S.) it will be possible to go higher in the hierarchy ??

[melnibonian]

Originally Posted by Chisum

Many thanks !!

Question.
It seems that the maximum still FregattenKapitan because "175=Exit To Menu".
No way out.

But, if I change all to begin the career(1939) with a level over Oberleutnant(ie: 164=Oberleutnant z. S.) it will be possible to go higher in the hierarchy ??

I have no idea mate. I would suggest you give it a try and let us know

[SmokinTep]

I'm happy being a seaman duece.............

[Chisum]

Hum...
I just think right now that it's not possible like I explain before, because "164" is the rank for the other officers.

For the player, everything begin at "170".

The only way should be by changing since 170:

Original:

170=Leutnant z. S.; Oberleutnant z. S.
171=Oberleutnant z. S.; Kapitänleutnant
172=Kapitänleutnant; Korvettenkapitän
173=Korvettenkapitän; Fregattenkapitän
174=Fregattenkapitän; Kapitän z. S.

After change:

170=Oberleutnant z. S.; Kapitänleutnant
171=Kapitänleutnant; Korvettenkapitän
172=Korvettenkapitän; Fregattenkapitän
173=Fregattenkapitän; Kapitän z. S.
174=Kapitän z. S.; Kommodore

( http://www.feldgrau.com/kmsranks.html )

I try it soon, I'm only KapitänLeutnant actually and inside mission.
Let me back home to watch.

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Chisum

Hum...
I just think right now that it's not possible like I explain before, because "164" is the rank for the other officers.

For the player, everything begin at "170".

The only way should be by changing since 170:

Original:

170=Leutnant z. S.; Oberleutnant z. S.
171=Oberleutnant z. S.; Kapitänleutnant
172=Kapitänleutnant; Korvettenkapitän
173=Korvettenkapitän; Fregattenkapitän
174=Fregattenkapitän; Kapitän z. S.

After change:

170=Oberleutnant z. S.; Kapitänleutnant
171=Kapitänleutnant; Korvettenkapitän
172=Korvettenkapitän; Fregattenkapitän
173=Fregattenkapitän; Kapitän z. S.
174=Kapitän z. S.; Kommodore

( http://www.feldgrau.com/kmsranks.html )

I try it soon, I'm only KapitänLeutnant actually and inside mission.
Let me back home to watch.

The change does work, though not sure about using 174 yet. There is a snag if you use SHIII Commander. Each time you launch the game through the SHIII Commander GUI it resets the ranks to the original ones. If you try to mark the file read only SHIII Commander will crash and give you an error. Long as you launch the game via the GWX icon everything works, as well as all the functionality of SHIII Commander.

Also would be wise to revise the reknown settings for promotion, being a Fregattenkapitän with only 15k reknown seems abit on the unreasonable sign.

[Chisum]

Originally Posted by Tessa

Also would be wise to revise the reknown settings for promotion, being a Fregattenkapitan with only 15k reknown seems abit on the unreasonable sign.

Where can I do that ?

Thanks.