[TEC] WARNING: UPlay overwrites mod files without permission

[Cerberus62]

Originally Posted by elanaiba

Did you activate it on Uplay or mod the museum it on another way?

I downloaded SH5 on May 2nd, 2010. Weeks before the launch of patch 1.20. Both Ark Royal and Queen Mary were visible in the Museum and in the Mission Editor right from the start (and without mods).

It's 5 days ago since I downloaded files from UPlay the first time. Because it works for more than 6 month, I can't see how UPlay should be associated with it.

And though I've deactivated each and every mod, the ships are still there.

Seems to be neither the patch 1.20, nor a mod, nor Uplay. Perhaps it's due to the localisation (I own the German version).
Or does your \data\Sea\NCV_Ark_Royal\NCV_Ark_Royal.cfg contain the entry "ShowInRecognitionManual=No" ?

[elanaiba]

Nope!

Bah.... I give up. I'm out of office for 2 weeks so I cant search through the multitude of versions, but ... in the end, its not that important. Good thing the ships are activated.

[Cerberus62]

A final hint. These are the entries for Ark Royal and Queen Mary in my museum.cfg:

[ITEM 79]
ClassName=CVArkRoyalasdf

[ITEM 80]
ClassName=PPQueenMaryasd

Weird names compared to the other units, because the entries don't match the ClassName entries in the data\sea\*.cfg file (trailing "asdf" resp. "asd"). If you rename the entries, these units won't show up in the museum. On the other hand I've got a lot of ships visible in the museum that are not listed in the museum.cfg at all.

Ok, you're right, got enough of this. Who cares? As long as it works...

[elanaiba]

The list only shows the ship that DON'T appear in the museum.

When uplay activates the unit, it also ads some noise ("asdf") to the end of the class name, so it no longer matches the one of the ship.

[slikster]

So, don't unlock UPlay items then? Is that the conclusion?

[Cerberus62]

Originally Posted by slikster

So, don't unlock UPlay items then? Is that the conclusion?

IMHO the additional u-boat textures are the only items so far worth to be unlocked. If you should decide to do so, and you got the items, don't forget to rename or save and delete the files r2.rw, r3.rw and r4.rw in the Silent Hunter 5\data folder afterwards, or you might run into troubles for reasons extensively depicted in this thread.

[Sepp von Ch.]

Okay. So I do not have to download new missions with Queen Mary and Ark Royal from Uplay.

I have not even one of the ships in museum in SH5. I really want them in my campaign.

What shall I do please? Step by step instruction please. But I would need a reasonable solution to protect my game by the possible next patch. I don´t want to have problems with played campaign!

[Cerberus62]

Josef, you've got PM. Hope, it helps.