Captains Log Questions

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I've never went so far as to print them off

Now that is hard core....I am impressed

Oh, I print my personnel file and crew list too. Updated after every patrol along with the logs.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Oh, I print my personnel file and crew list too. Updated after every patrol along with the logs.

Nice one

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Oh, I print my personnel file and crew list too. Updated after every patrol along with the logs.

Then gets on the train and delivers them in person to Neal, who is the only person to have to whole picture - so he can plan the next moves

[HW3]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
After that you need to reboot SH3, using Commander, and then look at the log for that last patrol - the names will be there.

Wait, you mean if I use real ship names in Commander, when I go back into the game and pull up the logs of past patrols by clicking the appropriate spot on my "desk" in the office screen, the ship names will be in those as well? I did not know that, that's awesome!

Dang, I didn't know that either, and I've been playing SH3 since it first came out. Learn something new every day.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Then gets on the train and delivers them in person to Neal, who is the only person to have to whole picture - so he can plan the next moves

Actually what comes next is a prolonged session of trying to decide who gets promoted, who gets what award, which men will be moving on to another assignment or going ashore for additional training, which goes on until I sweat out a satisfactory compromise between attempted realism and the desire to keep as much of my experieneced, familiar crew on board as possible. Between that and updating the logs, it can be a couple hours of post-patrol paperwork.

And at the moment, I don't really add anything to the logs except notes on promotions, awards, and transfers. Beyond those additions it's strictly the info that's already provided for departure from base, ships sunk, and return to base.

Regarding the separate .doc file for patrol logs, I only just realized a couple weeks ago that I could click on the links for "Patrol 1," "Patrol 2," etc. when I open my updated personnel file and get a similar printable file of the logs themselves. So next career I'll probably do all my editing and additions w/in the Commander interface for it and use that instead.

And I'm also toying with the idea of keeping more extensive records from within the patrol itself, like notes on the weather, all contacts, notes on attacks made, etc. But I don't know. I tried that when I was first playing and soon got bogged down - but then I was still trying to remember how to find my way around in the game just to do the most basic of things. Now so much of the routine of "running the boat" has become just that, routine, when it comes to what to click and what key to press. So maybe I'll be able to keep a more detailed log without it seeming like such a hassle.

[Jimbuna]

Hmmm...he could well be right

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

And I'm also toying with the idea of keeping more extensive records from within the patrol itself, like notes on the weather, all contacts, notes on attacks made, etc. But I don't know. I tried that when I was first playing and soon got bogged down - but then I was still trying to remember how to find my way around in the game just to do the most basic of things. Now so much of the routine of "running the boat" has become just that, routine, when it comes to what to click and what key to press. So maybe I'll be able to keep a more detailed log without it seeming like such a hassle.

Another place where I consider myself weird. I keep a running log on paper, including daily reports at the same time (roughly the time I left port) but adjusted for time zones, with 4-digit location, course, speed and weather, adjusted for a little more randomness and taking the seasonal weather adjustment into account. I change all my logs to reflect real life - no "Ship Sunk!" and all the info. My listings look more like "Attacked freighter, 5000-tons range. Fired 2 torpedoes from 900 meters. Target sank after 36 minutes." Then at the end of the patrol I make a list of the ships "confirmed", with the information.

[LiveGoat]

I keep written war diaries for each career. Weather reports (every morning), fuel usage reports, damage reports, combat entries, and imaginary events (crew disagreements, maintainence reports, stories my officers tell me, discussions of books read, etc...). Each officer and some petty officers (radio and sound guys) has a personal backstory and personality. I even print out "photographs" made from desaturated screen captures and include them in each volume; we have a permanent photojournalist in residence, the famous Lothar-Kunther Bungheim.

So far I'm up to eight volumes (all in hardback composition books made by Black n' Red). I guess I'm a bit obsessed with the game!

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

And I'm also toying with the idea of keeping more extensive records from within the patrol itself, like notes on the weather, all contacts, notes on attacks made, etc. But I don't know. I tried that when I was first playing and soon got bogged down - but then I was still trying to remember how to find my way around in the game just to do the most basic of things. Now so much of the routine of "running the boat" has become just that, routine, when it comes to what to click and what key to press. So maybe I'll be able to keep a more detailed log without it seeming like such a hassle.