GWX3 renown question.

[cms]

Hi All,
According to the GWX3 final manual,one be awarded a maximum of 1500 renown points at tha start of a carreer.

While playing around a bit,I found that if I start a patrol in 1939 with the 7/13 flotilla in a type VIIBm in Konigsberg,I start with 1000 points.
But if I start with the 2nd Flotillain 1939 in a VIIB from Wilhelmshafen,I recieve only 500 points.

In both cases,no extra goodies were purchased or crew members changed.Is this normal?

At any rate,I decided to stick with the 7/13 Flotilla,type VIIB,1939,based in Konigsberg.

One more question:
Where would the best place to be with the 7/13th Flot. when the war starts on September first?

Thanks,
Chris

[Herr-Berbunch]

I'm sure a GWX guru will be along shortly to explain renown, but in the meantime don't shoot anything at anyone non-Polish until the 3rd or the whole war is your fault!

[Jimbuna]

To get your 1500 renown you need to transfer to the first or second flotilla AFTER you receive a radio message from BdU on the fourth day of your first/shakedown patrol.

[ediko]

BTW lately I found something odd with renown.
In one patrol I sunk 55k tons and in the second I sunk 36k IIRC and I got the same renown for them although I had no damages whatsoever.

It was 1305 I think. It looked like it's the max one can receive though I remember getting more before. No mods except GWX modifying renown gain btw.

[RConch]

The best place to start for me is to transfer to the 2nd Flot. after I get the message to return to base on the 4th.

[K-61]

Originally Posted by ediko

BTW lately I found something odd with renown.
In one patrol I sunk 55k tons and in the second I sunk 36k IIRC and I got the same renown for them although I had no damages whatsoever.

It was 1305 I think. It looked like it's the max one can receive though I remember getting more before. No mods except GWX modifying renown gain btw.

Renown is not awarded on a ton per ton basis. Some ships are more valuable than others even though they may be of lower tonnage. After a recent query about floating docks and artificial harbours [big tonnage] I found out that the amount of renown awarded for them is paltry and not worth a torpedo. There also does not seem to be a limit on the amount of renown you can earn on any given patrol. I've definitely received more than 1305 on some of my patrols.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Also the level of realism has an effect, the more real the more renown.

[ediko]

Me too that's the problem. In the first 55k patrol I sunk the aquitania it is valuable enough isn't it? In the second they were all small freighters, liberties and a tanker. So that was definitely not how it's meant to be. I will post my 4th patrol results because my 3rd one was ... unsuccessful everything in the coning tower destroyed by 2 b-25.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by K-61

Renown is not awarded on a ton per ton basis. Some ships are more valuable than others even though they may be of lower tonnage. After a recent query about floating docks and artificial harbours [big tonnage] I found out that the amount of renown awarded for them is paltry and not worth a torpedo. There also does not seem to be a limit on the amount of renown you can earn on any given patrol. I've definitely received more than 1305 on some of my patrols.

Two floating docks:

1 26,000 ton 25 renown
2 33,200 ton 30 renown

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Also the level of realism has an effect, the more real the more renown.

Precisely, the higher the % of realism the higher the multiplyer for determining the renown.