[REL] rudewarrior's "Just Follow Orders!" Mod - NOW 2.0

[rudewarrior]

Originally Posted by Wreford-Brown

I honestly don't know, unless it's something to do with the date that SH3 loads vs. the date that your patrol starts. When you load through SH3 Commander, does the date in Cmdr show 5 Jun 1940?

All it says is for the date is "After Sunday June 2, 1940." Technically I started the patrol on 2 Jun, but it shouldn't make any difference as that is still before 4 Jun.

[Wreford-Brown]

Originally Posted by rudewarrior

All it says is for the date is "After Sunday June 2, 1940." Technically I started the patrol on 2 Jun, but it shouldn't make any difference as that is still before 4 Jun.

Originally Posted by rudewarrior

Ok, so this is what it is not doing.What it is doing in this case: It is only loading the files from 19400601 and not the files from 19400604. Why?

If SH3 Commander says that the date is Sun Jun 2 1940 (box 4 on the right hand side of the initial SH3 Commander screen), it will load 19400601 and not 19400604 at it believes the date is 19400602.

[rudewarrior]

Originally Posted by Wreford-Brown

If SH3 Commander says that the date is Sun Jun 2 1940 (box 4 on the right hand side of the initial SH3 Commander screen), it will load 19400601 and not 19400604 at it believes the date is 19400602.

It appears to me then that SH3 Commander does not read the date in the patrol, as I had originally thought. In mid-patrol, I have never seen box 4 say anything other than "After <patrol start date>." Have you seen it say anything other than that in mid-patrol? I know that if you are in base, it will show a current date, and I think it shows "N/a" if you are lost. Other than that, I don't think it says anything else.

It may be WAD.

[Wreford-Brown]

Originally Posted by rudewarrior

It appears to me then that SH3 Commander does not read the date in the patrol, as I had originally thought. In mid-patrol, I have never seen box 4 say anything other than "After <patrol start date>." Have you seen it say anything other than that in mid-patrol? I know that if you are in base, it will show a current date, and I think it shows "N/a" if you are lost. Other than that, I don't think it says anything else.

It may be WAD.

I haven't saved mid-patrol for a long time, so unfortunately can't comment.

I agree with you though - I don't think that SH3 Commander reads dates mid-patrol but I also don't see this as an issue. You wouldn't be sent new charts mid-patrol but would continue to receive radio messages, which seems to fit in with what you are trying to achieve and improves the realism of your mod.

By the way - WAD?

[rudewarrior]

Originally Posted by Wreford-Brown

I don't think that SH3 Commander reads dates mid-patrol but I also don't see this as an issue. You wouldn't be sent new charts mid-patrol but would continue to receive radio messages, which seems to fit in with what you are trying to achieve and improves the realism of your mod.

It does work, but my original intent was for the orders templates, the ones that have the orders listed by text on draggable pages in the game, to be updated mid patrol. The reason for this is that during certain times of the year, the JFO! radio messages pile up in a couple of days. Plus if you use the Radio Log Extended Mod as well, that updated message that you received back at the beginning of the patrol 20 days ago is going to be tough to find by paging all the way back through all of the messages that you received since then.

What I am going to do is set up my JSGME such that I can add in the necessary files based on the current date of the patrol myself. That way my orders will always be up to date. There is just a lot of info on there that I would really like to have in game, which was the original point.

We are working on a German version right now. When I release that I will update the readme to reflect the issues with SH3 Commander.

By the way - WAD?

WAD - Working As Designed

[Wreford-Brown]

WAD - now I get it!

One potential way around the SH3 Commander problem is to have orders in the Date folder one month before they are to be implemented (I know of few people who have more than month-long patrols). You could then change the visible tab to say 'Kaleun Eyes only, not before 6 Jun 1941' or similar. That way they can 'open' their orders when they receive the radio message on the correct date.

Suboptimal, but workable...

[La vache]

Hello rudewarrior

I continue at work.

But a new question: this is a write error in the readme?
range of the G7e/TII to 3000 km - sure mean 3000 m (meters)

I have not found specification for Torpedo.sim
Which values should I?