Trouble with canal locks...

Weiss Pinguin · 09-10-10, 12:12 PM

So the last few patrols I've run out of Kiel, I've noticed that when I reach the locks to enter/exit the canal, they don't seem to want to open for me. I have to call all stop before I crash into them, and then wait a bit for them to open up. I'm pretty sure I can remember being able to plot my course out and let the game run without having to manually navigate the locks when I reach them, and as far as I can tell I haven't changed anything since the last time I had a career out of Kiel. Or has it always been this way and my memory is just being weird?

Draka · 09-10-10, 12:19 PM

If you actually HAVE working locks, that is a mod - and I suspect that you can't just call 'em up and ask to have them opened - ya gotta wait (scripted). Look in the readme that came with it. Stock/GWX doesn't have working locks ........

Gerald · 09-10-10, 12:32 PM

and then go through seven different channel systems in Europe,to finally come down in the Med, just west of Marseille,and the journey was around 260 locks, and many were purely diabolical,so was glad that it is a Mods

Weiss Pinguin · 09-10-10, 12:49 PM

Okay I looked through the mods forum and apparently the Wilhelmshaven/St. nazaire/schluese/etc mod adds moving locks to the kiel canal... Funny I never had a problem with them before now lol

Draka · 09-10-10, 12:51 PM

Newer version - IIRC the older ones didn't have it.

Gerald · 09-10-10, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

Okay I looked through the mods forum and apparently the Wilhelmshaven/St. nazaire/schluese/etc mod adds moving locks to the kiel canal... Funny I never had a problem with them before now lol

09-10-10, 12:12 PM	#1
Weiss Pinguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 3,333 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	Trouble with canal locks... So the last few patrols I've run out of Kiel, I've noticed that when I reach the locks to enter/exit the canal, they don't seem to want to open for me. I have to call all stop before I crash into them, and then wait a bit for them to open up. I'm pretty sure I can remember being able to plot my course out and let the game run without having to manually navigate the locks when I reach them, and as far as I can tell I haven't changed anything since the last time I had a career out of Kiel. Or has it always been this way and my memory is just being weird? __________________

09-10-10, 12:32 PM	#3
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Be happy that it is a game, when I went from Lübeck and then go through seven different channel systems in Europe,to finally come down in the Med, just west of Marseille,and the journey was around 260 locks, and many were purely diabolical,so was glad that it is a Mods __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

09-10-10, 12:49 PM	#4
Weiss Pinguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 3,333 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	Okay I looked through the mods forum and apparently the Wilhelmshaven/St. nazaire/schluese/etc mod adds moving locks to the kiel canal... Funny I never had a problem with them before now lol __________________

09-10-10, 12:19 PM	#2
Draka Lieutenant Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 256 Downloads: 322 Uploads: 0	If you actually HAVE working locks, that is a mod - and I suspect that you can't just call 'em up and ask to have them opened - ya gotta wait (scripted). Look in the readme that came with it. Stock/GWX doesn't have working locks ........

09-10-10, 12:51 PM	#5
Draka Lieutenant Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 256 Downloads: 322 Uploads: 0	Newer version - IIRC the older ones didn't have it.