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Originally Posted by Paul.Saenger

I have got a general question regarding the variying Ship tonnage displacements. For example, there currently is one liner class in GWX that is displayed with about 24.000 tonnage. Now the ship it was modelled after (Nieuw Amsterdam) had 36.000 tons. However, it is also supposed to cover all the other liners which did start at 24.000 tons, like the SS Washinton.
I have compiled a list of different liners from the range of 20.000 - 36.000 tons. How do I implement it in the SH3 commander option of various tonnage displacements?

Same goes for the whale factory ships, which did measure up to 19.000 tons but are more or less set at 11.000 in GWX.

You first need to identify what the ship classes are, and then whether they have been added by the GWX team to the Ship displacements.cfg file. Once you've identified that, the change is simple. To randomise between 20k and 30k, for example, ensure the following:

[SHIPCLASSNAME]
Displacement=25000
UpperDisp=1.2
LowerDisp=0.8
YearlyDispAdjust=1.02
en_Text=Displacement: 25,000 t|Length: 63 m|Beam: 12 m|Draft: 4.2 m|Mast: 21.7 m|Speed: 15 knots
ge_Text=Verdrängung: 25,000 t|Länge: 63 m|Breite: 12 m|Tiefgang: 4.2 m|Mast: 21.7 m|Geschwindigkeit: 15 Knoten
fr_Text=Déplacement : 25 000 t|Longueur : 63 m|Largeur : 12 m|Tirant d'eau : 4,2 m|Tirant d'air : 21,7 m|Vitesse : 15 nœuds

I recommend keeping the displacement at the average, or the standard, for the class, then adjusting the Upper and Lower Disp percentages to ensure the right range is used (you may need to add the UpperDisp and LowerDisp lines to the class block if they do not already exist). The YearlyDispAdjust value applies an increase by the specified percent each year starting from 1940. Set it to 1 if you don't want it.