TGW Thanks and a new question

[melnibonian]

Originally Posted by Sgt Swanson

Thank you sir. Now I have a new thing to learn in Commander.

Don't worry too much about it. The one who gets hammered in the awards system is usually you and not your crew. The problem with the SH3/GW awards system is that is based on renown, and renown is based on the realism level as well. Your crew can get their medals and promotions from you but you cannot get them from SH3

To give you an example I had played 65 patrols (1939-1945) in SH3/GW and sunk a bit more than 1,700,000 GWT, but because I was not playing 100% realism I was always awarded less renown. Also because the promotions are handed over depending on your current renown I was a Sr. Commander in the end of the war!!! I had got all the medals and everything but I suffered in the ranking system of the game.

[Sgt Swanson]

Well at least GW has a better realism setting. NYGM will show it at 100% even if you have fuel limits turned off. I thought that was wacky.

Would be nice to have a more realistic promotion system. That way people could learn and appreciate what it took to get them. Donitz didn't beat up his captians because they came back with busted up boats. He beat them up when they came back and didn't sink anything.

Originally Posted by Sgt Swanson

Well at least GW has a better realism setting. NYGM will show it at 100% even if you have fuel limits turned off. I thought that was wacky.

Would be nice to have a more realistic promotion system. That way people could learn and appreciate what it took to get them. Donitz didn't beat up his captians because they came back with busted up boats. He beat them up when they came back and didn't sink anything.

I believe (but don't quote me on this) that NYGM does that because it doesn't record renown, but records absolute tonnage, and a realism of less that 100% will not properly keep a running total of your total tonnage. That's also why they warn you to only enlist zero-renown cost personell, because enlisting crew or officers that have an associated renown cost will subtract that from your cumulative tonnage total.