Seas are either too empty - or too crowded

badger_ken · 12-24-09, 11:11 PM

hi everybody,
I played SH3 a lot, have just started SH4, have installed a pretty typical set of mods (TMO and RSRD - see here

And have two questions - I searched the forum and couldn't find answers to either, thanks much for any help anyone can give?

1) The manual says on p.61 that the text by a marker can be edited _"you can modify this name (18 characters max.) and attach a note" - HOW? I can't get this to work. I get tired of trying to remember what "Mark 1", "Mark 2", etc. mean

2) More significantly - I'm wondering if what I'm seeing is typical gameplay. I started a campaign in January 1942, with an S-Boat out of Surabaya, and have done 3 patrols, all in the Makassar straits, on 90% realism (I keep external camera, I loves me my eye candy). 99% of the time, the sea is totally empty, and I'm bored. I even sailed in to Balikpapan harbor right after it fell to the Japanese and it was empty.

The other 1% of the time, I see a vast armada of Japanese ships (dozens, usually), with at least 6 destroyers, which see me about 2 seconds (literally) after I see them, and it's all I can do to (barely) survive. The lowlight here was my first such encounter (I've had two of these armada encounters), when my crew notified me of 'enemy in sight', I went to the binoculars, and see - a japanese destroyer shelling me! Is my crew _that_ incompotent? (It was daytime and clear, but jeez).

My _only_ other encounter in the entire game has been one airplane attack. I've literally fired zero torpedoes in 3 cruises.

Is this just the way the mods make the traffic, for this part of the world, for this type of boat, at this time? My only other thought is that there's something borked with time compression, I routinely run at 512X assuming the game will drop me down to 1X if anything interesting is going to happen. Or am I just really really unlucky?

Thanks for any advice,

12-24-09, 11:11 PM	#1
badger_ken Watch Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 28 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Seas are either too empty - or too crowded hi everybody, I played SH3 a lot, have just started SH4, have installed a pretty typical set of mods (TMO and RSRD - see here And have two questions - I searched the forum and couldn't find answers to either, thanks much for any help anyone can give? 1) The manual says on p.61 that the text by a marker can be edited _"you can modify this name (18 characters max.) and attach a note" - HOW? I can't get this to work. I get tired of trying to remember what "Mark 1", "Mark 2", etc. mean 2) More significantly - I'm wondering if what I'm seeing is typical gameplay. I started a campaign in January 1942, with an S-Boat out of Surabaya, and have done 3 patrols, all in the Makassar straits, on 90% realism (I keep external camera, I loves me my eye candy). 99% of the time, the sea is totally empty, and I'm bored. I even sailed in to Balikpapan harbor right after it fell to the Japanese and it was empty. The other 1% of the time, I see a vast armada of Japanese ships (dozens, usually), with at least 6 destroyers, which see me about 2 seconds (literally) after I see them, and it's all I can do to (barely) survive. The lowlight here was my first such encounter (I've had two of these armada encounters), when my crew notified me of 'enemy in sight', I went to the binoculars, and see - a japanese destroyer shelling me! Is my crew _that_ incompotent? (It was daytime and clear, but jeez). My _only_ other encounter in the entire game has been one airplane attack. I've literally fired zero torpedoes in 3 cruises. Is this just the way the mods make the traffic, for this part of the world, for this type of boat, at this time? My only other thought is that there's something borked with time compression, I routinely run at 512X assuming the game will drop me down to 1X if anything interesting is going to happen. Or am I just really really unlucky? Thanks for any advice,