Just got Silent Hunter 3, I think I'm doing it wrong. Is there a guide?

Ok, an update. I went through much of the newbie guide thread and found that most of the links are dead (5 years old). Is there a new place I can find the community manual?

I think I'm going to try playing a little more on the stock game first to get some experience before I crank it up with the Grey Wolves or anything else. Are there any graphics only mods? I'm suffering info overload and have spent so many hours studying stuff while playing the actual game very little, so I need a break.

One more question - when I have my navigator ping for the ocean depth does that give away my position? I've hit the bottom before (I thought ordering my engineer to dive would mean he'd dive to a reasonable level, but he just kept going). The Nav map seems to show some depth colors, but they are hard to make out and I don't know the legend for how deep the colors mean.

Thanks,


Jonny K

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Jonny K

Ok, an update. I went through much of the newbie guide thread and found that most of the links are dead (5 years old). Is there a new place I can find the community manual?

The original URL for it has been dead for a while IIRC, every so often someone inquires about it and I don't remember anyone posting an updated link for it. You can try doing a search of the forum for "community manual" and see if you have any luck.

I think I'm going to try playing a little more on the stock game first to get some experience before I crank it up with the Grey Wolves or anything else.

Some folks will advise just that, others will say to go ahead and install a supermod right away. Do whatever floats your own boat.

One more question - when I have my navigator ping for the ocean depth does that give away my position?

I real life? I'm guessing yes, if there's another ship near enough listening in with some type of sonar that can pick up on your ping.

In the game? Nope. The enemy AI doesn't hear it. Ping away to your heart's content, unless you want to refrain from it for realism's sake.

I've hit the bottom before (I thought ordering my engineer to dive would mean he'd dive to a reasonable level, but he just kept going).

The officers do what you tell 'em to. No more, no less. If you order a dive, the LI will keep you in a dive until you tell him to level off or go in the other direction, even if it means he sends you bow first into the sea bottom at flank speed (or takes you below crush depth and kills you all that way).

If you order a heading or plot a course, the navigator will keep you on it even if it ends up with you slamming into another ship or the dock or running a stop sign in downtown Kiel. Oh, they may alert you to the fact that there's another ship in the vicinity, or that you're getting close to land, or that you're taking damage from the pier on which you've impaled the boat, or that the traffic cop behind you is motioning franctically for you to pull over and produce your license and registration*, but they won't change course to avoid any of that unless you order it.

In other words, it's all up to you.



*I may have made this part up.

[Arnold]

Originally Posted by Jonny K

Is there a new place I can find the community manual?
One more question - when I have my navigator ping for the ocean depth does that give away my position?

^
I have a link to the Silent Hunter 3 Community Manual yet I cannot get the link to work here. From history, considering the HF/DF technology the British used, it may also be prudent to limit your radio traffic to Bdu to eliminate detection. Rather than give Bdu contact reports every two hours, if a convoy is detected, in the game, every 12 hours is adequate.
As a fellow noob, it would be nice to locate a tutorial for learning to use the tools in the navigation map.
Good hunting!

[Gargamel]

Pinging for depth does not give away your pos, and I'm pretty sure HuffDuff is not modeled in the game.

[TwoGamers]

Going half-way across the world is a bad idea and in order to avoid battleships just watch the updates down thwe bottom this will tell you what to do

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by TwoGamers

Going half-way across the world is a bad idea and in order to avoid battleships just watch the updates down thwe bottom this will tell you what to do

If you're counselling the original poster, he hasn't been on this board in well over a year.

[Steve Gad]

Originally Posted by TwoGamers

Going half-way across the world is a bad idea and in order to avoid battleships just watch the updates down thwe bottom this will tell you what to do

Updates? Bottom? Crumbs, I'm worse at this than I thought!!