Destroyers Stopped at Sea

flakmonkey · 09-30-09, 06:19 PM

Couple of potential reasons i can think of, bad weather can sometimes damage ships, i found a merchant on my last patrol that was doing <1kt and listing badly thanks to a huge storm. But it seems unlikley that 2 ships would succumb to bad weather so thats probably not it.

Most likley they had come to the end of their waypoints and the "delete on reaching end of waypoints" option wasnt selected, so theyd just stop.

Theres more than a few random bugs that could account for this one, two DDs for free though, cant complain

Ford Prefect · 09-30-09, 06:37 PM

Usually even a ship lacking a waypoint has a speed though, the default speed for any object inserted using the mission editor for example is 5knots. Having them just sat there is very odd indeed. Its as if someone accidentally copied a docked ship and tagged it onto a convoy as escort, the whole convoy would have been rendered if you got close enough but the rest of the ships would have sailed off. Who knows? There are certainly a hell of a lot of oddities in the game!

Fluffysheap · 09-30-09, 08:00 PM

Myself I enjoy the oddities like this. You know what they say, "stranger things have happened at sea."

I encountered a stopped minelayer once right off the British coast in (I think) early 1940, maybe late 1939... figured he was laying mines so I blew him up with a torpedo. Well, come to find out, the ship was American and I got tagged with negative renown for it.

gdogghenrikson · 10-01-09, 01:59 AM

Isn't that a known vanilla SH3 bug. I have seen that before, but not with a destroyer though. Any one with GWX seen this because I haven't seen that since I started using it.

evan82 · 10-01-09, 03:50 AM

This also may be a bad script for this destroyer in campaign files.

Jimbuna · 10-01-09, 08:14 AM

It shouldn't be too difficult to trace if the necessary information becomes available:

Game version, date, time, vessel class and approximate position.

-=Spy=- · 10-01-09, 08:32 AM

I'll be honest with you, this was about two years ago. I have no idea where they were, the date, much less the precise class.

Yeah.

09-30-09, 06:19 PM	#1
flakmonkey Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Staffordshire, Uk Posts: 944 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	Couple of potential reasons i can think of, bad weather can sometimes damage ships, i found a merchant on my last patrol that was doing <1kt and listing badly thanks to a huge storm. But it seems unlikley that 2 ships would succumb to bad weather so thats probably not it. Most likley they had come to the end of their waypoints and the "delete on reaching end of waypoints" option wasnt selected, so theyd just stop. Theres more than a few random bugs that could account for this one, two DDs for free though, cant complain __________________

09-30-09, 06:37 PM	#2
Ford Prefect Planesman Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire Posts: 184 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Usually even a ship lacking a waypoint has a speed though, the default speed for any object inserted using the mission editor for example is 5knots. Having them just sat there is very odd indeed. Its as if someone accidentally copied a docked ship and tagged it onto a convoy as escort, the whole convoy would have been rendered if you got close enough but the rest of the ships would have sailed off. Who knows? There are certainly a hell of a lot of oddities in the game! __________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/halfpenny/sets/ http://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t Home of "why people laugh at creationists" http://www.youtube.com/user/FFreeThinker http://www.youtube.com/user/ExtantDodo

10-01-09, 01:59 AM	#4
gdogghenrikson Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 978 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Isn't that a known vanilla SH3 bug. I have seen that before, but not with a destroyer though. Any one with GWX seen this because I haven't seen that since I started using it. __________________ And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown.

10-01-09, 03:50 AM	#5
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10-01-09, 08:14 AM	#6
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,525 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	It shouldn't be too difficult to trace if the necessary information becomes available: Game version, date, time, vessel class and approximate position. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

09-30-09, 08:00 PM	#3
Fluffysheap Bosun Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 63 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Myself I enjoy the oddities like this. You know what they say, "stranger things have happened at sea." I encountered a stopped minelayer once right off the British coast in (I think) early 1940, maybe late 1939... figured he was laying mines so I blew him up with a torpedo. Well, come to find out, the ship was American and I got tagged with negative renown for it.

10-01-09, 08:32 AM	#7
-=Spy=- Watch Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 16 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'll be honest with you, this was about two years ago. I have no idea where they were, the date, much less the precise class. Yeah.