SH4 Editor query - Generic ship desig

[peabody]

Originally Posted by HMCS

How do you determine which ship is the GENERIC escort? I was planning on editing convoy compositions for TMO and RSRDC and thought about tweaking the difficulty by assigning different ships to certain convoys.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT - I'm thinking that it's a random selection - looking at the editor I see that I can pick a specific vessel and assign a crew quality to tweak difficulty.

As Tater said if you use the Mission Editor with RSRDC, you can mess up all the "hand edits" that had to be done. You can edit these files with notepad and put in things the Mission Editor can NOT handle. He edited the files, so ships show up when and where they should be, all that can be messed up just with a simple save from ME.
But to answer your question in case you want to do it with other stuff. The idea behind a Generic Escort is simply you don't know which one will be selected. If you notice the Generic isn't only for Escorts.
So in the random group you can set specific ships and set a % change that they will be in the group when you see it. You set a Random Generated Group of 10 ships, all at 50%. When you see the group it might have 10 ships it might have 5 ships, it might have one ship.
So to make it more "Random" they included the Generic selection. So you set up a Random Generated group of 10 "Generic" Battleships all set to 50%, you may see 10 New Mexicos, you may see 6 ships but 2 New Mexico, 1 North Carolina, 3 Pennsylvania.
So the Generic just picks one instead of you putting in a spefic one.

Peabody