Understanding Medals/Renown/Badges in basic.cfg

[Torp III]

Frau, check this thread http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ght=promotions

You have to change some stuff in basic cfg and commander as well.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Torp III

Frau, check this thread http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ght=promotions

You have to change some stuff in basic cfg and commander as well.

Thanks, but the info there doesn't answer my basic question. I'm already working on alterations to the basic.cfg via commander to make the awarding of medals/promotions more historically accurate and appropriate to my style of play, however in order to do that effectively I'd like to know exactly how the game is doing it now.

Either the lines

MedalScore0=3000;2 class, SCORE
MedalScore1=7000;1 class, SCORE
(etc.)

don't mean what I think they mean (i.e., I finish a patrol, the game tells me my renown is over the "score" required for a particular medal, I get the medal), or else the renown the game tells me I have at the end of a patrol is different from the amount being used to award medals and there is some other factor in how "MedalScoreX" is calculated that I am not aware of.

THAT is what I'm trying to figure out, not how to edit the basic.cfg to make it harder to get them. I already know how to do that.

[Torp III]

Sorry, just working on second cup of coffee and it takes four for this ol farts brain to wake up. I always took that as total score and not what is shown. Doesn't account for upgrades, etc. If you have dummy/test campaign, up the number on that and see what happens.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Torp III

Sorry, just working on second cup of coffee and it takes four for this ol farts brain to wake up. I always took that as total score and not what is shown. Doesn't account for upgrades, etc. If you have dummy/test campaign, up the number on that and see what happens.

Please explain the difference between "total score" and "what is shown" - this is actually what I am asking about.

Is the renown the game tells me I have at the end of each patrol not my "total score"? That is one assumption I had when I started that now seems incorrect, because obviously MedalScoreX refers to a number that is NOT the amount of renown the game tells me I have at the end of the patrol where "MedalX" is awarded.