[REL] Open Horizons II (old thread)

[Zedi]

Originally Posted by jwilliams

^^
This gets my vote.



I don't want to have to sink battleships. It's not realistic to fail a mission if you don't sink the battleship.
I highly doubt uboats were ordered to sink battleships. If you sink the battleship... Great. But please don't make it compulsory.

I finally figured out what to do. I will not change the missions location, only the objectives. So you will be sent out to patrol an area where you may also hop onto a big BB or carrier. Engaging them will be your choice, not something mandatory. So this will add more fun to the campaign.

Regarding the tonnage objectives, how is this:

OLD - NEW (tonnage)
200.000 > 20.000
100.000 > 15.000
50.000 > 8.000

If you had reach the tonnage objective, just set up your own patrol area and sink stuff until a new mission will be available. And now that we will have new ships with less tonnage, the game will be more realistic. No more only huge ships with at least 5-7k tons/ship.

[jwilliams]

Originally Posted by Zedi

I finally figured out what to do. I will not change the missions location, only the objectives. So you will be sent out to patrol an area where you may also hop onto a big BB or carrier. Engaging them will be your choice, not something mandatory. So this will add more fun to the campaign.

Regarding the tonnage objectives, how is this:

OLD - NEW (tonnage)
200.000 > 20.000
100.000 > 15.000
50.000 > 8.000

If you had reach the tonnage objective, just set up your own patrol area and sink stuff until a new mission will be available. And now that we will have new ships with less tonnage, the game will be more realistic. No more only huge ships with at least 5-7k tons/ship.

I guess the tonnage amounts needed, will need to be play tested. And maybe tweeked in the future. You dont want the tonnage to be too easy, but you also dont want it to be impossible.

[Zedi]

Im all ears and open to suggestions, this should be based on the community wish. So what would be a more acceptable tonnage requirement? Keep in mind, there are missions with different time frame. From 2-3 months, up to 1 year or more.

[Sepp von Ch.]

Nice videos.. but remains the question... When will it all be?

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by Josef von Posorschitz

Nice videos.. but remains the question... When will it all be?

They work in sh5... the movie that i made was done in sh5... zedi it is working allone to putt all these in campaigns... also he rework in same time all the campaigns.... so if will be more persons that can help him than soon... if not... than not so soon... anyway all of them will be in the new MO

[Jaguar]

Is this tonnage thing really needed? I may be very much mistaken but why not just patrol a given area, or areas and other stuff like that?

If one sinks ships one gets promoted and/or receive awards (very poorly modeled in the game btw) like Iron and Knight´s Cross, U-Boat clasp and such...

As a compromise, is it possible to have two types of campaigns, one with "normal" and other with "realistic" objectives?

Just some ideas for hardcore players.