What goes where and why

Sniper297 · 12-08-09, 11:43 PM

I read over the tech tips, many of which don't appear to have much to do with modding. What I think would be useful is some kind of list of which files do what along with what other files they're interlocked with. I also read the text mod tutorial, ran out of breadcrumbs and kept getting crashes trying to start Asiatic 1941 balao class. Then I found a balao mod someone else had made, hee-hee!

Anyway, few things about this game -

First mod I got was to eliminate airplanes, granted aircraft WERE a hazard to subs but all the aircraft built by the Axis and Allies combined during the entire war wouldn't have been sufficient to provide 24 hour coverage over the entire Pacific.

A subchaser and two of them stupid little gun boats would be an anti submarine patrol, not a "TASK FORCE". And you wouldn't likely see them little gunboats outside a harbor to begin with, if you met one in the middle of the ocean her crew would have trouble just standing up on deck and would never be able to load and train a gun, let alone fire it with any accuracy in anything other than a dead calm. Even with a mild swell they would be too busy bailing to attack a sub, those are not deep water vessels.

Given that there's no feature to back one screw while going ahead on the other to turn faster, the rate of turn should be increased for all subs to compensate.

Torpedoes should DEFAULT to high speed. Need to have a quick command for settings, in real life the captain would say "set all tubes to 20 feet, high speed, contact, open outer doors on one thru six". Having to click each one in turn to change all the settings, open the outer door, then move on to the next one and do it all over again is not only tedious and time consuming, but unrealistic since in the real thing you would have a bunch of guys doing all that for you. Even having something like SHIFT Q to open all the outer doors at once would help.

Anyway, rant over, what I would like to see is a list broken down by category, for example to hack the speed, turning rate, placement and type of guns you need to hack this file plus that file and add something to these other files.

12-08-09, 11:43 PM	#1
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	What goes where and why I read over the tech tips, many of which don't appear to have much to do with modding. What I think would be useful is some kind of list of which files do what along with what other files they're interlocked with. I also read the text mod tutorial, ran out of breadcrumbs and kept getting crashes trying to start Asiatic 1941 balao class. Then I found a balao mod someone else had made, hee-hee! Anyway, few things about this game - First mod I got was to eliminate airplanes, granted aircraft WERE a hazard to subs but all the aircraft built by the Axis and Allies combined during the entire war wouldn't have been sufficient to provide 24 hour coverage over the entire Pacific. A subchaser and two of them stupid little gun boats would be an anti submarine patrol, not a "TASK FORCE". And you wouldn't likely see them little gunboats outside a harbor to begin with, if you met one in the middle of the ocean her crew would have trouble just standing up on deck and would never be able to load and train a gun, let alone fire it with any accuracy in anything other than a dead calm. Even with a mild swell they would be too busy bailing to attack a sub, those are not deep water vessels. Given that there's no feature to back one screw while going ahead on the other to turn faster, the rate of turn should be increased for all subs to compensate. Torpedoes should DEFAULT to high speed. Need to have a quick command for settings, in real life the captain would say "set all tubes to 20 feet, high speed, contact, open outer doors on one thru six". Having to click each one in turn to change all the settings, open the outer door, then move on to the next one and do it all over again is not only tedious and time consuming, but unrealistic since in the real thing you would have a bunch of guys doing all that for you. Even having something like SHIFT Q to open all the outer doors at once would help. Anyway, rant over, what I would like to see is a list broken down by category, for example to hack the speed, turning rate, placement and type of guns you need to hack this file plus that file and add something to these other files.