possible to take one ship from ship pack 1 and put into RSRD?

[Bubblehead1980]

I have miner's ship pack 1 downloaded but for now all I want is the large freighter to add to RSRD. Could I just take it from the pack and insert to RSRD roster? could just move the ship to mods folder and enable JSGME?

[Armistead]

Bubble, it should be in RSRD. I've had it in mine since playing RSRD. About the only time I see it is 44 in Formosa and Palawan shipping lanes. I think it replaces a light carrier platform, so you lose it and gain the other.

I'll check again, but I have it and know I've never added it.

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Bubble, it should be in RSRD. I've had it in mine since playing RSRD. About the only time I see it is 44 in Formosa and Palawan shipping lanes. I think it replaces a light carrier platform, so you lose it and gain the other.

I'll check again, but I have it and know I've never added it.

the big one miner created, its not on the RSRD roster.Think you added it and forgot, I remember when he released it

[max-peck]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

I have miner's ship pack 1 downloaded but for now all I want is the large freighter to add to RSRD. Could I just take it from the pack and insert to RSRD roster? could just move the ship to mods folder and enable JSGME?

You should be able to.

I've just had a look at the campaign files for RSRD in the Mission Editor.

In the convoy layer, specific ship types are defined, so you will not see it in a convoy.
I'm not surprised about this.
I spent a couple of evenings reading the RSRD release thread.
It looks as if Lurker used specific ship entries in the convoy layer to mirror as close as possible the historical makeup of each convoy.

The single merchant layer is a different story however.

In the two files I checked, it looks like in this layer 'Gereric Cargo' has been used as the ship type. So the game should choose a cargo ship at random from the Japanese cargo ship roster.

This leads me to believe it should be as easy as adding your new ship folder and roster cfg file via JSGME and you should see it turn up as a non convoy target.

Of course if my reasoning is incorrect, somebody please point out where I have gone wrong

[Armistead]

Bubble, you probably could do this.

DL shippack mod as normal, don't install it to mods yet.

Open Shippack/Data/Roster/Japan/Sea

Here you will find the CFG files for the added ships. Now, RSRD has some of these and you may have added other exact ship types more updated you like better, for instance if you load the Nagato/Myoko mod, you may prefer that Myoko over the one listed in the shippack.

Just delete or copy and save to an out a game folder the ships you don't want installed as u may want them later or keep your mod zipfolder. If you want just the Large Modern, it's the NKLCSHeian, just delete all the other files except this.

You would then have to remove ships you don't want from

Shippack/Data/Sea

This will bring up the ships folders with all their info, again delete all the ships you don't want, save, etc...Make sure you delete the exact ships from both folders you don't want.

Basically you're just removing ships you don't want in the ship pack from both folders..make sense.

You should be able to activate the mod and then see only the ships you picked in the ME, add traffic and then deactivate and reactivate your mods so the changes overwrite.

Now some of miners ship overwrite existing platforms, so those would show up in RSRD traffic, just be the different ship, some ships you would have to add traffic

Shippack includes two other ships, one for Britian and one for the Dutch I think, you could delete these the same way or just let them be.
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I'm playing with it if you wanna wait, trying to figure out how the Large Modern got added into RSRD traffic convoy files, cause last time I used shippack, the LM just showed up in several RSRD convoy layers. Again, I don't use the ME to adjust any of Lurkers existing work, just to add other work. Shippack doesn't mess with RSRD, so I assume it's the platform, but I'm sure it was made from a carrier. It may be these convoys are generic and picks the merchant.

[Armistead]

I did what I said and it seemed to work fine. I just used 4 ships from the shippack as I like the other exact types I use from other mods.

I built one convoy for a test and included all the extra ships I've added, Nagato, large modern, Large Pass, aircraft salvage vessel and a few others and all went well, but my S boat got sunk by that mean DD with the 8 Y guns, shouldn't put 4 of those in the group...ouch.

Just be careful on how you build some earlier groups, if you add ships that aren't made yet for that year they wouldn't show up and you may get some invalid entries in the ME.

[Bubblehead1980]

Thanks armistead