My biggest wish as a 1x TC player

NipplesTheCat · 03-24-07, 03:41 PM

I often times like to play on 1xTC or as close as possible. My biggest wish is that when I encountered a merchant or enemy unit, the game would pause itself and use the internet to send my phone a txt message regarding what type of unit was just encountered. That way, I could come back to the game and take over if I was able to or the game would remain paused untill I came back to my computer. I cant always be at the sceen during a 1xTC patrol and there is nothing more annoying then spending a week in transit only to encounter a DD or airplane when im AFK

Is something like that even possible? How difficult would it be to do? Just curious.

minute · 03-24-07, 04:05 PM

One possibly more complex solution outside of SH is to have a program that monitors the sound output. It may be possible to find a software that gets activated when a certain sound is played or the noise level reaches a certain level. You would essentially capture the "Ship spotted" sound. I would look for a speech recognition software and see if it would be possible to hook that up to the sound output?

NipplesTheCat · 03-24-07, 04:09 PM

Startinf from the beginning, when a ship is spotted and the menu pops up asking you what you want to do, is there not a way to make the menu pause the game?

Corsair · 03-24-07, 04:14 PM

Did you try editing the main.cfg and entering TC 0 for Enemy detected and Air Enemy detected ?

NipplesTheCat · 03-24-07, 04:19 PM

No I havent tried anything since I dont know what im doing. I would no doubt botch my install. Is that all that I need to change? Where is the cfg file located? Also, is that reliable as im not sure that my menu pops up 100% of the time that something is spotted.

Jan Kyster · 03-24-07, 04:45 PM

No need to edit. Once your patrol has loaded, press Esc, select Options and select Reset Settings. Voila!

03-24-07, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Corsair

Did you try editing the main.cfg and entering TC 0 for Enemy detected and Air Enemy detected ?

This is definately the way to go. I use this method to pause the game for enemy aircraft and to bring the TC down to 1 for enemy ships.

It is very simple to do:

Go to "My Documents"
Locate "SH3 folder" and double-click to open it
Double-click on "Data" folder
Double-click on "cfg" folder
Double-click on "main" file to open
The second section is labeled [TIME COMPRESSION]
Make this change: "AirEnemyDetect=0"
Make this change: "EnemyDetect=0"

You might also like to make "LandProximty=128" to travel faster through the Kiel Canal.

Now click on "File" and save.

You might want to do this in port!

NipplesTheCat · 03-24-07, 05:37 PM

I will def give that a go when i finally get back to port in a week or so. Now just to figure out how to make the game send a txt message. Hmmmmm:hmm:

03-24-07, 03:41 PM	#1
NipplesTheCat 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 281 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	My biggest wish as a 1x TC player I often times like to play on 1xTC or as close as possible. My biggest wish is that when I encountered a merchant or enemy unit, the game would pause itself and use the internet to send my phone a txt message regarding what type of unit was just encountered. That way, I could come back to the game and take over if I was able to or the game would remain paused untill I came back to my computer. I cant always be at the sceen during a 1xTC patrol and there is nothing more annoying then spending a week in transit only to encounter a DD or airplane when im AFK Is something like that even possible? How difficult would it be to do? Just curious. __________________ Your sister swims towards troop ships.

03-24-07, 04:09 PM	#3
NipplesTheCat 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 281 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Startinf from the beginning, when a ship is spotted and the menu pops up asking you what you want to do, is there not a way to make the menu pause the game? __________________ Your sister swims towards troop ships.

03-24-07, 04:14 PM	#4
Corsair Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toulouse France Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	Did you try editing the main.cfg and entering TC 0 for Enemy detected and Air Enemy detected ? __________________ NYGM 3.4A / Living SH3 V5.1 + SH3 Commander

03-24-07, 04:19 PM	#5
NipplesTheCat 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 281 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	No I havent tried anything since I dont know what im doing. I would no doubt botch my install. Is that all that I need to change? Where is the cfg file located? Also, is that reliable as im not sure that my menu pops up 100% of the time that something is spotted. __________________ Your sister swims towards troop ships.

03-24-07, 05:37 PM	#8
NipplesTheCat 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 281 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	I will def give that a go when i finally get back to port in a week or so. Now just to figure out how to make the game send a txt message. Hmmmmm:hmm: __________________ Your sister swims towards troop ships.

03-24-07, 04:05 PM	#2
minute Loader Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 87 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	One possibly more complex solution outside of SH is to have a program that monitors the sound output. It may be possible to find a software that gets activated when a certain sound is played or the noise level reaches a certain level. You would essentially capture the "Ship spotted" sound. I would look for a speech recognition software and see if it would be possible to hook that up to the sound output?

03-24-07, 04:45 PM	#6
Jan Kyster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,151 Downloads: 152 Uploads: 0	No need to edit. Once your patrol has loaded, press Esc, select Options and select Reset Settings. Voila!