How to change submarine availability?

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Moonlight

What are those numbers for?, is it for the amount of boats available so the game gives you a probability of getting a boat with a different name or something?.

I believe they are Flotilla numbers (Flotilla 1 is Sub Pac) and are linked to the boats available at different commands on different time periods etc. Fremantle is F2 I believe. Also believe they are linked to the orders player receives based on flotilla and type of submarine. I.E. prevents player based in Fremantle (F2, I think it is) being assigned to patrol off Honshu and vice versa.

Only thing is in TMO I have restored (mostly) the function to start a patrol in say Pearl Harbor , patrol en route, and complete patrol at Fremantle. This was often done when boats were switching commands. Used to be standard in the game and was changed for some reason and now have the very gamey instant transfer which I honestly..dislike. Adds a lot to sail from Pearl, patrol South China sea, etc then end in Australia. Same if do a new construction career. After sea trials, instead of magical transfer to Pearl, you sail from San Francisco. May run across an IJN submarine if in early war or an anxious "Friendly" patrol plane that bombs you, or anxious escort mistaking you for a japanese submarine.

Trying to restore the Balao seas trials as well, not sure why they were eliminated.