A Very depressing CTD

[BigWalleye]

Originally Posted by GalaKev

Downloading it now

Originally Posted by suitednate

Thanks for the insight guys.

Do you happen to use the Hsie randomized searchlight mod? I think he said something about if you save near a convoy and then you go into attack that they "act defenseless and it's basically a shooting gallery" or something to that effect?

Please post the link! It's gotta improve my tonnage!

[maillemaker]

Downloading it now

I wish the AI of the convoy under attack could be improved. I wish they would try to disperse, or ram, or other behavior.

I have noticed on rare occasion with large convoys that once in a while the entire convoy will get into a tangle. I don't know if I caught them in the middle of a course change or what, but they will get themselves in such a tangle that many ships come to a stop. I love cruising around inside such messes, shooting as I go.

Steve

[BigWalleye]

Originally Posted by maillemaker

I wish the AI of the convoy under attack could be improved. I wish they would try to disperse, or ram, or other behavior.

I have noticed on rare occasion with large convoys that once in a while the entire convoy will get into a tangle. I don't know if I caught them in the middle of a course change or what, but they will get themselves in such a tangle that many ships come to a stop. I love cruising around inside such messes, shooting as I go.

Steve

From what I have read, historically that was not uncommon in the early war years. Merchant seamen in peacetime are used to sailing from one place to another, not maneuvering in formation. There is a military term for the result of a submarine contact on an untrained, unprepared convoy.

[suitednate]

Originally Posted by BigWalleye

Please post the link! It's gotta improve my tonnage!

funny stuff for sure...........

but seriously the following comes straight from the readme of Hsie's Randomized Searchlight mod:

* Don't save/reload the game when enemy in render range (approx. 30km?).
Otherwise (according to my observations) the enemy, at least the merchants,
are totally dumb and defenseless after reload. This is a SH3 bug and not
related to this mod.


This mod can only be run if you are using SH3 Commander. So i was wondering if anyone had actually seen this take place..........

[Otto Fuhrmann]

What do the merchants even do? Do they just stop moving or slow down or what? I am curious what a dumb merchant looks like.

[suitednate]

Originally Posted by Otto Fuhrmann

What do the merchants even do? Do they just stop moving or slow down or what? I am curious what a dumb merchant looks like.

I don't know. I'm curious too.

[maillemaker]

I am curious what a dumb merchant looks like.

Well, if you get close enough with your binoculars you can see the crew scaling down the sides of the ship on ropes painting a big "aim here" bulls eye on the side of their ship.




Steve