Question about SH3gen and its use

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by Fat Bhoy Tim

Question:

The actual mission generated by SH3 Gen, I've never actually gone about trying to complete it. Do you get renown for it if you manage to somehow complete the often vauge orders, or is it really just for the immersion factor?

No there is no mission
Its purely there to give you intel based on your campaign layers
What you choose to do with that intel is up to you as is the strength of information given
Purely for immersion , and no good uboat Kpt would have left port without any intel he could have gained
And if you have many save games and rerun SH3gen each time its just like receiving radio contacts

[GlobalExplorer]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

No there is no mission
Its purely there to give you intel based on your campaign layers
What you choose to do with that intel is up to you as is the strength of information given
Purely for immersion , and no good uboat Kpt would have left port without any intel he could have gained
And if you have many save games and rerun SH3gen each time its just like receiving radio contacts

(I think Phat Boy means the mission objectives from version 0.7 upwards.)

There is no direct renown for fulfilling or not fulfilling the missions, unfortunately it is not possible. All the checks that Silent Hunter makes before it assigns prestige are hard coded, as far as I know.

However, you could say that whenever you are given a mission it means that Sh3Gen has established that the time is right for doing it, because for every mission there has to be a trigger. You can go where you are told, there will probably be a higher chance for valuable targets, you can sink them and the additional prestige will make your mission a success.

The system works as follows:

Whenever a mission objectives' required condition is flfilled, Sh3Gen will add it to the list of possible mission (this can get pretty long). In a second step I take one mission from every mission type and put them into another list (this is to have about the same frequency for every mission type). At the end a single mission is chosen from this list, and this is the one that you will see at the beginning of your mission update.

So, yes, immersion only, but there might be more to it.

GE