Understanding Medals/Renown/Badges in basic.cfg

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I've already edited the realism settings so that the game thinks I'm playing at 99% realism even though I'm not. I know I'm getting more renown than I would normally get playing with the realism options I have, which would probably be around 60% if I hadn't fiddled with the relevant files.

CHEATER!




Did you get that idea from me?

I've been doing that for a very long time, which is funny because I never use the renown to buy anything.

As to your question, that now has me puzzled. I too always thought it was the score required for that medal. It certainly seems to work that way for promotions, as GWX changes it to 1499 for the first one, so you become Oberleutnant immediately following the first patrol.

So I don't know about the medals. Sorry to be so little help.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

CHEATER!

Did you get that idea from me?

I've been doing that for a very long time, which is funny because I never use the renown to buy anything.

Well since I'm quite happy with a Type VII I doubt I'll be upgrading anything anytime soon either, except for maybe upgrading from a VIIB to a VIIC and even that's not a given.

As to your question, that now has me puzzled. I too always thought it was the score required for that medal.

I still think it is, but obviously the "score" in question does not equate to the renown the game tells me I have after a patrol. I have always assumed that when I end a patrol, the renown it says I have is my total renown for my career to date. But if that's the case, something else that I don't know about is being added to make up the "score" that awards me the medal I get.

If the renown shown after a patrol is only what I earned on that single patrol, and doesn't include what I got for previous patrols, then yeah I probably qualify for all the medals I've gotten so far if the ending renown for all the patrols are added up. But that seems to me like such an odd way of doing it - like it's keeping your total score a secret unless you make a point of keeping track of it yourself outside the game. Didn't occur to me that this might be exactly what it's doing until now.

[Sailor Steve]

In the center desk at the office is your Patrol history. On the right side of that desk is a thick book marked 'Career History'. That one will give your total renown.

[ryanglavin]

WAIT! BRAIN TELLS ME SOMETHING!

What if there is a hidden variable, like you have to complete X amount of patrols and get this amount of renown to get a medal/promotion. It could also be broken, as you get X amount of renown, but not X amount of patrols, so you would not get the medal until the next patrol.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by ryanglavin

WAIT! BRAIN TELLS ME SOMETHING!

What if there is a hidden variable, like you have to complete X amount of patrols and get this amount of renown to get a medal/promotion. It could also be broken, as you get X amount of renown, but not X amount of patrols, so you would not get the medal until the next patrol.

Actually I think renown by itself is fine for awarding medals, since historically it was not necessary to complete X number of patrols to earn them if what you accomplished during your patrols (or even only one patrol) was deemed worthy of a decoration.

But I was just thinking today that using # of patrols completed (which would bring in more of a "passage of time" variable) in conjunction with renown for successes while on patrol would be a cool way of giving out promotions.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

In the center desk at the office is your Patrol history. On the right side of that desk is a thick book marked 'Career History'. That one will give your total renown.

But the book is in Wilhelmshaven, and I'm somewhere east of Gibraltar!

Oh well I guess I can wait and see what it says when I get back and that should answer my question.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

But the book is in Wilhelmshaven, and I'm somewhere east of Gibraltar!

WEST of Gibralter, consarnit.

[Sailor Steve]

Well, somewhere in that vicinity!

Yeah, and I'm always in the middle of a patrol when some new mod comes out. That's why I just left Wilhelmshaven on August 19, 1939 for my brand-new shiny career. For the gazillionth time. Maybe this time I'll actually do something.

But I doubt it.