RENOWN SUX!!!

[Cybermat47]

no idea.
cool story, though.

[Cybermat47]

How about there being a limited amount of upgrades?
i.e. if you buy 20 Acoustic torpedoes you can't get walther torpedoes?

[Sailor Steve]

I play GWX. I never spend any renown. On anything.

But that's just me.

[HW3]

The only thing that comes to mind is knowing that your rank is tied to your renoun, and if you do not want to be demoted, you can't spend all your renoun.

P.S. Love the story!

[GT182]

A simple way to get around Renoun. Go into SH5's main folder/CFG folder/Basic folder and edit all renoun to 0. But make sure you back up the original Basic cfg file first. Then you can choose when you want an upgrade or not, and not have to worry about renoun.

I look at it this way. Uboat commanders never had to pay for upgrades, weapon improvements, or ammo and torpedos. So why should we have to. I try to keep any improvements close to the time they were available in real life back then. And sometimes I say the hell with it and use whatever I want, no matter what the date is where you are in the sim.

[rudewarrior]

Originally Posted by GT182

A simple way to get around Renoun. Go into SH5's main folder/CFG folder/Basic folder and edit all renoun to 0. But make sure you back up the original Basic cfg file first. Then you can choose when you want an upgrade or not, and not have to worry about renoun.

I look at it this way. Uboat commanders never had to pay for upgrades, weapon improvements, or ammo and torpedos. So why should we have to. I try to keep any improvements close to the time they were available in real life back then. And sometimes I say the hell with it and use whatever I want, no matter what the date is where you are in the sim.

Actually this is exactly what I do, but I just feel guilty, as some u-boats didn't even have schnorchels until December '44. It is too easy to "cheat" and just max out the u-boat all the time. I just wish there was some way to make my options at any particular point in time a little more realistic. Even if there was some way to determine a % chance of getting a certain item by time during the war. That would be ideal, but I don't know if there is anything that gives a complete picture as to what each u-boat was outfitted with at a particular time. I know uboat.net has some of the info, but not all of it.

Thanks for the ideas guys, but it just seems that all the ideas still run along two lines: either were stuck with the renown system we have, or we just blow it off altogether. Is there any other ideas out there?

HW3's solution is probably very close to being realistic, but unfortunately, you are just locked into GWX's parameters, and I'd really like to vary it up at least a little bit.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by GT182

A simple way to get around Renoun. Go into SH5's main folder/CFG folder/Basic folder and edit all renoun to 0. But make sure you back up the original Basic cfg file first. Then you can choose when you want an upgrade or not, and not have to worry about renoun.

I look at it this way. Uboat commanders never had to pay for upgrades, weapon improvements, or ammo and torpedos. So why should we have to. I try to keep any improvements close to the time they were available in real life back then. And sometimes I say the hell with it and use whatever I want, no matter what the date is where you are in the sim.

Good idea!

[TwoGamers]

I kinda agree maybe a mod that makes you apply for an upgrade and command may or may not give it to you? Or every upgrade has a advantage and disadvantage that way each other out?

[twexl]

I think the file to be edited is Delta renown ,I only do this for a new boat-
realistically unsuccessful Kaleuns were"nt given the best equipment.