Gameplay Settings

[PortsmouthProwler]

Hi, folks. Not new to the SH series. Just acquired SH IV with the Uboat addon. Gold edition, I guess, apparently 1.5.

OK, so I set my gameplay options - checking everything 'cept Manual Targeting and Event Camera, IOW, I'm totally realistic 'cept for those two. After I get used to things, then I'll immerse myself in manual targeting.

And then I start an American Career (all in 1941, so far, Asiatic Fleet, maybe one outta Pearl).

** ...and get sonar lines on the attack chart, no fuel consumption, ...aaarrrgghhh!

What's goin' on? Why does the app not recognize or implement my game settings?

[Quillan]

When you start a career, you choose a difficulty setting. That setting checks and unchecks assorted realism settings, overwriting what you already chose in Options earlier. Once you get into the office the first time, pan the camera left and click on the radio, then reset the realism choices to where you want them.

[PortsmouthProwler]

Thanks, I kinda thought that's what was goin' on.

OK, so set my realism the way I want it, in case I want to do a prepackaged patrol. Go to Career, put it on 'Normal', for instance (thus overriding my settings), start the Career and then click the radio to re-establish the settings.

And I assume it retains the radio settings for the rest of the Career.

[Diopos]

Is it a radio or a clock?

[Quillan]

Pretty sure it's one of those old-time radios that used vacuum tubes. I haven't had to use it in a while, though, so I could be wrong.

[SteamWake]

Its a radio http://antiqueradio.org/philco90.htm

A little outside the timeline

[doulos05]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Its a radio http://antiqueradio.org/philco90.htm

A little outside the timeline

Perhaps you've never had to requisition anything from the military. In 1931, SUBCOMPAC decided that non-standard equipment in offices made it difficult for skippers just passing through a port or possibly even sharing an office with other skippers to work efficiently so they started planning to standardize everything, right down to the picture frame on the desk (skippers would be allowed to bring their own pictures, if they wished, otherwise they would be provided a picture of the current SUBCOMPAC Commander). It took 10 years, but finally on 21NOV1941 the last of the radios was installed.

Naturally, once the war started, there was no money to modernize offices. We were in a war, transistors were needed on the submarines, not in the radios! Hence the radio's persistence through the end of the war. The last of the radios in Pearl Harbor were decommissioned in 1959, replaced by state of the art RCA 8-X-541's.