Eternal Patrol!!!

Glenn Sweet · 06-01-07, 04:37 PM

I need help!! I have a pig boat (s36)that originally was based in the Phillipines... 1st patrol got transefed to Surabaya. All's well and good. Head out on my 3rd patrol... get lucky enough to take out a flat top north of Manokwari.. take a terrible pounding from the escorts but survive.. I slip east into the Coral sea and south to Brisbane to refuel. Get a message that my new base is Freemantle... no problem.. gas up, and take the southern route to Freemantle to end my patrol.... ARGHHH!! the "End Patrol" lamp is NOT lit!! OK,OK... so I refuel/refit and head north into the Banda Sea.. Take out about 25k of shipping and head back home with empty stores thinking Freemantle will take me now..... AGHHHHH!!!! Thats a negative! OK... so I refuel/refit and head out ONE MORE TIME!! North of Surabaya... take out another 12k of shipping... once again, no more torps... Freemantle HAS to take me this time!!! and...... AGHHHHHH!!! I am in patrol HELL!! Double checked to make sure Freemantle is my base via data files... yup,yup.. anyone know how to force a base entry/end of patrol?? There is grumbling and whispers of mutiny in the engine room!!

switch.dota · 06-01-07, 04:41 PM

Try to go to Surabaya, Java, if there is still an anchor icon there. This happened to me on my 2nd patrol: I got a message changing my base from Surabaya to Freemantle BUT I was only 600KM off from Java and very low on fuel (not to mention having repairded nearly half the sub after being rammed by a destroyer), so I tried docking there to refit.

Surprisingly I had the End Patrol option there, even tho the last message in my log was sending me all the way to the Australian west coast!

Sea Eagle · 06-01-07, 07:26 PM

I.ve had that problem before,I refitted and found I was able to dock at Brisbane.

kiwi_2005 · 06-01-07, 07:28 PM

Ground Hog Day!

What i did is sailed to another port and hello the dock window came up, i went all the friggin way down to freemantle.

ReallyDedPoet · 06-01-07, 07:41 PM

Welcome

Glenn Sweet

RDP

06-01-07, 04:37 PM	#1
Glenn Sweet Bilge Rat Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1 Downloads: 60 Uploads: 0	Eternal Patrol!!! I need help!! I have a pig boat (s36)that originally was based in the Phillipines... 1st patrol got transefed to Surabaya. All's well and good. Head out on my 3rd patrol... get lucky enough to take out a flat top north of Manokwari.. take a terrible pounding from the escorts but survive.. I slip east into the Coral sea and south to Brisbane to refuel. Get a message that my new base is Freemantle... no problem.. gas up, and take the southern route to Freemantle to end my patrol.... ARGHHH!! the "End Patrol" lamp is NOT lit!! OK,OK... so I refuel/refit and head north into the Banda Sea.. Take out about 25k of shipping and head back home with empty stores thinking Freemantle will take me now..... AGHHHHH!!!! Thats a negative! OK... so I refuel/refit and head out ONE MORE TIME!! North of Surabaya... take out another 12k of shipping... once again, no more torps... Freemantle HAS to take me this time!!! and...... AGHHHHHH!!! I am in patrol HELL!! Double checked to make sure Freemantle is my base via data files... yup,yup.. anyone know how to force a base entry/end of patrol?? There is grumbling and whispers of mutiny in the engine room!!

06-01-07, 07:28 PM	#4
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	Ground Hog Day! What i did is sailed to another port and hello the dock window came up, i went all the friggin way down to freemantle. __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

06-01-07, 07:41 PM	#5
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,884 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	Welcome Glenn Sweet RDP __________________ Back in the Day

06-01-07, 04:41 PM	#2
switch.dota Captain Join Date: May 2007 Location: Romania Posts: 492 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Try to go to Surabaya, Java, if there is still an anchor icon there. This happened to me on my 2nd patrol: I got a message changing my base from Surabaya to Freemantle BUT I was only 600KM off from Java and very low on fuel (not to mention having repairded nearly half the sub after being rammed by a destroyer), so I tried docking there to refit. Surprisingly I had the End Patrol option there, even tho the last message in my log was sending me all the way to the Australian west coast!

06-01-07, 07:26 PM	#3
Sea Eagle Nub Join Date: May 2007 Location: Dubai, UAE Posts: 4 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I.ve had that problem before,I refitted and found I was able to dock at Brisbane.