Accumulating Renound

[melnibonian]

Originally Posted by deepboat

I've often wondered about renown. I'm assigned a far off grid that requires me meeting up with a milk cow or steamer in a neutral port. Initially I was assigned the patrol grid but now that I have re-fueled my next patrol destination is back to my home port. Do I still get renown if I continue to the previously assigned grid and then to port or is it not counted?

No as far as the game is concerned when you dock to a Milk Cow your patrol finishes. Therefore if you want to get renown for patroling the required grid you have to do it before you dock for fuel and torpedoes.

[Hakahura]

The other thing to bear in mind about renown is realism.

Seems to me that when I first started playing the game, at lower levels of realism, my renown per patrol was much lower than it is now. Regardless of of the amount of ships sunk.

If I had to guess I would agree that each ship has a certain amount of renown attached to it, but, the game rewards you a percentage of that renown in relation to the realism settings you have selected for that career.

[Nerazzurri]

Originally Posted by Hakahura

The other thing to bear in mind about renown is realism.

Seems to me that when I first started playing the game, at lower levels of realism, my renown per patrol was much lower than it is now. Regardless of of the amount of ships sunk.

If I had to guess I would agree that each ship has a certain amount of renown attached to it, but, the game rewards you a percentage of that renown in relation to the realism settings you have selected for that career.

Lifted from the community manual -

Renown and Realism

The renown you receive for sinking enemy ships is also affected by your Realism %. You will earn more renown for playing at a higher Realism %.
The formula for calculating renown (http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=36293), per ship, is:
base ship renown value (see below) * ( (0.75 * realism %) + 0.25 ).Therefore, At 100% realism, you will receive full renown credit for every ship that you sink and at 0% realism, you will receive 25% of the renown credit for every ship.

[Jonathan]

Wow...I am learning so much from reading this thread...and this encourages me to ramp the realism level up. Currently, I am operating at either 27% or 35%...I might try moving on up to 50%-60%...I am so worred about 'dud' torpedoes...

[GoldenRivet]

Jonathan

Im surprised by your east coast experience... how did he locate you?

As a general rule on those realism settings when a destroyer is sighted or warship detected you want to slow to either ahead slow or all stop, rig for silent running by pressing the "Z" key and wait for the destroyer to leave the area. go deeper if possible.

just out of curiosity - what did you do when the destroyer was detected?

sounds like your situation should have been survivable - especially in stock.

Loading a save would not be considered "cheap" as you put it, especially if you are still in the stages of learning to play the game really well.

[Jonathan]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

Jonathan

Im surprised by your east coast experience... how did he locate you?

As a general rule on those realism settings when a destroyer is sighted or warship detected you want to slow to either ahead slow or all stop, rig for silent running by pressing the "Z" key and wait for the destroyer to leave the area. go deeper if possible.

just out of curiosity - what did you do when the destroyer was detected?

sounds like your situation should have been survivable - especially in stock.

Loading a save would not be considered "cheap" as you put it, especially if you are still in the stages of learning to play the game really well.

I never got the "We've been detected sir" message. I went pretty far into the bay by the Filrth place, but I did not go THAT far into it. My watchmen up top sighted two ships...one was a V&W Destroyer and another was a fishing boat. I let the fishing boat alone and dropped to 10 meters depth. I had my sonarman track the V&W. Since it was the middle of the night, I went ahead and surfaced again to try and outrun it. Apparently, this was probably my un-doing as it saw me from afar with its light. I dove again to 25m only to hit the bottom kind of hard at 20m. I of course was running silent at this time and I just sayed there on the bottom not accelerating at all. I saw the ship's bow run right above my ship and he dropped a perfect line of depth charges...two direct hits on either side. I watched my ship literally flail in the water like a dead-fish. I tried to secure from running silent and start repairs, but nothing was doing. I ordered blow-ballasts, and the front or back end of my ship began to rise, but the other end remained at the bottom, too heavy due to flooding to rise up. I am sure the crew inside was realing every which way as I tried to accelerate out in some sort of last ditch effort to save the lives of my crew. It was to no avail...and the end came swiftly.

[GoldenRivet]

i think even in stock going into those areas is pretty risky, try to follow the coast line, but stay about 80 to 100 KM off coast.

you would be likely to connect with a lone merchant steaming out of norway for the Brit coast.

If you select your navigator and choose the icon for depth under keel he will report how deep the water is, try to stay out of areas where the water is shallow, trapping yourself in 30 meter waters yields no options other than to run... and if you do that the destroyer will know exactly where you are.

next thing i would do is transfer to a VII as soon as possible.

good luck out there... reload and try again