Crew slots for deck guns desapier.. pls help

[woodstock74]

Originally Posted by Andas_007

During one patrol mission... I observe my crew dont want to come to mane the deck gun... then I noticed the crew slots for bow and stern gun are missing... I go back in port... and they are still missing... how can I fix that please ???

Also I have one patrol mission that dont wnat to finish... what are the conditions for one patrol mission (binocular icon) to finish ?

Pls help...

Thank you !

Wondering if this is the same problem. The issue I'm having is getting the crew to man the deck gun or AA gun and staying at their position. Always seem they abandon their position right when I'm expecting them to be there.

[-Pv-]

I'm not seeing any of those problems. Is anyone still trying to use no disk on 1.3? Are you requesting a new boat instead of being assigned one? I have upgraded my AA on two boats and I have no deck crew position problems. Anyting else unique you guys might be doing?
-Pv-

[madcat]

I’ll try and make things bit more clear. At the moment I am running a fresh install of SH4 1.3 with out the disk, because you don’t need the disk with 1.3. With previous version of the game I have all ways used the disk, never used the nocd because that mess up the game more then it was all ready at that point.

I have gone though my career and have only received a new boat when I have bin assigned a new boat or it was to badly damaged.

At the moment the boat I have is a BALAO Class and when I received it had x2 Single 20mm AA Machine Guns (Bow & Stern) & x1 4 inch/50 cal Deck Gun (Bow).

Right away I upgraded the AA to x2 Twin 20mm AA Machine Guns no problem, tried to move the 4 inch/50 cal Deck Gun from the Bow to the Stern with problems, the 2 crew slots assigned to the Deck Gun had disappeared. So I had a gun but no way of getting the crew to man it, tried switching the 4 inch/50 cal Deck Gun back to the Bow but still no crew slots.

So load it back up how it was before I did the upgrade, after some portals had gone by I tried again to upgrade the guns on my boat and this time I upgraded the AA to x1 Single 40mm AA Machine Gun (Stern) & x1 Twin 20mm AA Machine Gun (Bow). Had no problem with the Twin 20mm AA Machine Gun but the Single 40mm AA Machine has only 1 crew slot, but it should have 2 crew slots as it needs two crewmen to operate it properly and this how my boat is at the moment.

Just tried moving the Deck Gun again from bow to Stern and the same thing happened again as I said above, this has happened on other boat I have used but the problem with the 40mm AA gun is a new one to me as it has not bin available.

[AirborneTD]

Ok. As soon as you moved the deck gun to the stern you needed to go into the crew management screen and manually move the crew into/out of the deck gun slots. THis should keep them intact allowing the AI to fire the gun. If not, I don't know what is happening. This works quite well for me. Now that you have this problem, you will have to wait until you start a new campaign. I don't believe it is fixable after it has already happened.

[madcat]

Back at base and did what you said moving the crew from the deck gun, then moved the deck gun from the bow to the stern but the same problem happed again!!!

So bin having a look at the save game files and i think its some thing to do with the ActiveUserPlayerUnits.upc

Did two saves where 1 is unmodified & 2 moved the deck gun. Then compared the deferent’s and there is some, tried changing some values but didn't seem to work and can't pin down what it is but it's some where between [UserPlayerUnit 1.Compartment 7] & [UserPlayerUnit 1.Compartment 8.CrewMemberSlot 2] in the ActiveUserPlayerUnits.upc file I think?

[-Pv-]

What happens when you start at port before you do any maintenance and have no crew in the weapon slots. Purchace/place the gun as you with then go to the crew screen and see if the empty slots for the weapons have been created.

I never have crew in the weapon slots when I pull into port. When I need the weapons manned during patrol, I recruit them from DC or inactive bridge crew. I'm careful to keep a few gun-rated crew in the bridge and DC positions.
-Pv-

[madcat]

Made a small video if it helps?

http://files.filefront.com/Crew+Slot.../fileinfo.html

[_alphaBeta_]

Originally Posted by -Pv-

I never have crew in the weapon slots when I pull into port. When I need the weapons manned during patrol, I recruit them from DC or inactive bridge crew. I'm careful to keep a few gun-rated crew in the bridge and DC positions.
-Pv-

I have the same problem. I switched my deck gun from stern to bow and now the crew can't man the gun. There's no compartment listed, just the damage control team and AA gun.

Is everyone not experiencing the problem pulling into port with no crew at the gun stations? Perhaps this is the bug. I usually leave crew there since they're not actually being used until ordered to man their stations. I'll keep it empty if it avoids this bug.

I'm using a fresh career started with v 1.3. How this bug is still in the game, I have no idea.

[SgtWalt65]

Originally Posted by AirborneTD

Ok. As soon as you moved the deck gun to the stern you needed to go into the crew management screen and manually move the crew into/out of the deck gun slots. THis should keep them intact allowing the AI to fire the gun. If not, I don't know what is happening. This works quite well for me. Now that you have this problem, you will have to wait until you start a new campaign. I don't believe it is fixable after it has already happened.

Problem is, there is no slot to put the crewmen into. The slots disappear as do the crewmen who where manning the gun while it was on the bow. Move it to the stern and poof, slots for the crew are missing as well as the crew. Move it back to the bow and the slots and crew return. You can do this back and forth but you want get a crew slot or even a icon for the stern gun at all. This has happened to me with a clean install and patched to 1.4 and with the RSRD Mod installed with no other mods.
Even starting a new campaign want fix this problem. Tried starting a new one 5 - 6 times and each time I had the same effect when I tried to install a gun on the stern.

[littelmaster]

Just by the game and have exactly the same problem. Disappearing slot for deck gun.

Try to reinstall again with the last UBI patch 1.4 install/uninstall TMO 1.4 mod but still the same thing.

As soon as you move your gun from bow to stern slot just disappear (and i my case won't go back). I manage to fix this problem more less following Coletrains explication.

Now I can play but I am disappointed thing I going back to SH3

[rrmelend]

I'm having the same problem as SgtWalt65. My deck gun is located aft of the conning tower and when I tried to move it to the bow the deck gun crew slots disappeared. When I moved it back to the aft the slots magically appeared again along with my two missing crew. Any ideas?