A few GW questions...

[mangaroca]

Hi,
I would like to know three things about The Grey Wolves mod (and the whole SH3 game in general):

1) How to find longtitude and latitude on the map (xx.yy' N; aa.bb'W)?
2) Do the radio messages mean anything (if there is a message telling me to go to third quarter of sector "F" [hell knows where it is] to form a wolfpack, should I do it?) Also, what does "SSS sinking "shipname" SS something..." radio message mean???
3) If I damage a ship in a way she sinks about 1 meter a day am I gonna get the credit for sinking her even if I'll be far away, half way home? Will she sink at all???

Thanks in advance.

[Dowly]

1. I dont have a clue

2. No, the messages are there so you wouldnt feel so alone out there. SSS is a mayday call used in the war, it was send when you were under attack from a enemy submarine.

3. No, you dont get the credit if you go too far. Just punch another whole in it, try to aim to a different spot of the ship so there are more compartments flooding.

Hope these help!

[bigboywooly]

Hi

1 ) http://www.ubootwaffe.net/quadrant.cgi

The only way I know how to do it

Dowly has covered the rest

1. Try this little gem: http://web.telia.com/~u51008935/converter.html

2. SSS means "Help! We are under attack by a submarine!

3. Listen to your uncle Dowly.

[IrishUboot]

The quadrant converter is great. That's a bookmark, indeed. Cheers, Dowly.

[harryt8]

SOS is the international distress signal from the Morse Code days. (SOS = Save our Souls). "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday" is the current voice equivelent on HF or UHF/VHF equipment.
I think SSS is perhaps an error.
The morse signal transmitted in GWX 2.0 is: CH/28/04/43G.
Is that a random set of charachters or has it some sort of Date/Time/Group as all military signals have?

Harryt8
Merimbula NSW

The message "CQD" means a general call to all vessels, which indicates the vessel sending is in distress and requires immediate assistance. At the time of the "Titanic" sinking, the Marconi company's "CQD" was still in common use, although it had been officially replaced by the well known "SOS" - which, by the way, does NOT mean "Save Our Souls" or anything so melodramatic - it was chosen specifically to be easily and instantly recognisable in morse - "dit dit dit, dah dah dah, dit dit dit".

The Titanic sent an SOS to the Olympic.
(first use of "SOS" by Titanic - Bride jokingly suggests to Phillips that it may be his last chance to use the new distress call)

[Abd_von_Mumit]

As I learned on this forum, SSS is used specifically as "help, attacked by a submarine". So I assume the middle S (that replaced O) stands for Submarine.

EDIT: Just realised that I took part i a necromancy session.

necromancy

That would be me.


But it is a good discussion on several points.
SOS was a fairly new signal at the time of the Titanic Disaster.
CQD was standard from the start of wireless.
Also, They did not transmit in what most presume by todays standards.
It was an almost scratchy blur type transmission.
Do a Google for Titanic's messages and you hear this.
For the AC-4, I did a sound track that HAS a message.
I thought about useing the transmission sounds of the period, but.
As most of the AC-4 is going WAY above everyones heads?
I'm glad I used WWII standars for the sound loop.
Now!!
Decode the message!!!

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Abd_von_Mumit

As I learned on this forum, SSS is used specifically as "help, attacked by a submarine". So I assume the middle S (that replaced O) stands for Submarine.

Yes, SSS was devised during WWII and used only when the cause of the distress was a submarine torpedoing. Otherwise, the standard SOS was used.

"Save Our Souls" and any other phrase variation is a backronym.

[Sniper_Fox]

if i was a merch captain, i wouldnt say SSS, id be too afraid of everyone staying clear as to stay away from the sub

Originally Posted by mangaroca

3) If I damage a ship in a way she sinks about 1 meter a day am I gonna get the credit for sinking her even if I'll be far away, half way home? Will she sink at all???

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You must be within 30km (rendering distance) from ship when ship sinks to get credit for the kill.
Note that if you go further than 30 km from damaged ship and come back to that ship, he will be fully recovered (undamaged).

[danurve]

I always thought SSS was " S#|T, ... Submarine Sighted!" :rotfl:

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by mangaroca

1) How to find longtitude and latitude on the map (xx.yy' N; aa.bb'W)?

(For example) zoom in on the England area so you have the Greenwich meridian in view. Then look at the black/white marks on the edge of the map(screen). Grab the map with the cursor and slide it around. You see it now?

BTW credits go to don1reed for finding it.