Destroyers Discussion (getting rid of pin point drops)

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:hmm: can you say PING!!!
i edited out the crewrating entry from the 505 mission and it loaded and ran perfectly normally-- i didn't play the mission thru as i was just testing the idea that the game DOES NOT read the crew rating entry OR that it DOES NOT take any notice of it

and the game DOES NOT use the crew rating entry written into the mission file--so how does it decide what type of crew to give the DD's?

it's just a shot in the dark but it's likely that it randomises it or has some other system for allocating crewrating--- one thing for sure is that (in single missions at least--i havent tried editing out the crew rating from the campaign but i will do that next)

the game does not need the crewrating entry in the mission file to load and run the missions

PING.....
as we know novice crews are useless and elite ones are fairly uber -
this would be important

the game does not use/need the mission file crewrating entry --if it ignores it which is what this implys then what is the default crewrating?
and is it randomised? would explain a lot

if you want to test this open the mission file with wordpad and edit the

crewrating=4

entry to this

;crewrating=4


adding the ; to comment it out (the game ignores anything preceeded by a ; AFAIK)

if we are really lucky then simply removing all the crewrating entrys from the campaign.RND will actually solve the whole issue - i'm too tired to test this right now but will have a look tommorrow--good night all!!