What do you guys do for patrols??

[Capt. Morgan]

Originally Posted by fastfed

YEP!! It really sucks!! I don't go to my "grid area" any more either.. I don't know why the GWX team couldn't of added (XXX renown for getting to grid, XX renown for 24 hour patrol, and XXX renown for making it home)

You can restore it yourself, just edit your data\cfg\basic.cfg file and give yourself as much as you want (wait 'till you're back in harbor though). GWX removed the renown to be fair to players in the Indian Ocean who can't get renown because SH3 can't assign patrol grids there.

I figure being a kreigsmarine officer means obeying orders, so I go where ever they send me. There's a tool I use that comes with NYGM (sh-patrol.exe) that will assign me to other grids afterwards - in accordance with my sub type, date and flotilla. Donitz kept his fleet on a short leash - too bad the allies could read most of his radio orders.

As to The Channel, I believe one of the immersion messages that you recieve in late '39 are orders avoid The Channel under any circumstances. Certainly by early '40 the channel, the entire east coast of Britain, and the northern and southern entrances to the Irish Sea are heavily mined and that is modeled in GWX.

I concur with Frau K. In wartime it takes a lot more player-time to pass through The Channel than to simply go around.