Silent Hunter III Commander time in port

[krautjacket]

Has anyone else found that if you change this mid-patrol, then it doesn't apply? I tried to dock with Thalia in Cadiz for 1 day but instead was there for two weeks... but when I docked with Belchen off greenland, I could stay for 0 days fine...

weird

[Herr-Berbunch]

If you've got any damage it takes longer in port - something like one day for one percent of damage.

Not many people change anything mid-patrol!

[frau kaleun]

Docking at a supply ship doesn't happen mid-patrol since doing so ends your patrol as far as the game is concerned.

When you leave the supply ship the game will count it as the start of a new patrol; IIRC supply ships were added into the game as additional bases since there was no other way to put them there, and the game treats a stopover there as the end of one patrol and the start of another.

Commander automatically reduces the days spent in base to 1 whenever you end a patrol at a supply ship, however as H-B has noted the game automatically adds 1 day in base for every 1% loss of hull integrity. Since the game treats a stop at a supply ship the same as a return to port, if you have any loss of hull integrity when you dock at one the game will add days to the 1 day "in base" that was set by Commander.

There is a way to undo this by going into the files for your career outside both the game and Commander and editing the days in base that the game assigned when you exited after docking at the supply ship and also the start date of the next patrol, but I haven't done it in a while and don't have those files handy on this computer. I believe it's the Patrols.cfg and Patrols_0.cfg that have to be edited.

[krautjacket]

Touché

thanks for clearing that up!

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by krautjacket

Touché

thanks for clearing that up!

No problemo, I once spent the better part of an evening trying to figure out why I docked at the Corrientes one fine morning and couldn't leave again until 22 days later.

Took several exits and restarts of the same patrol and lots of wasted attempts at tweaking stuff that didn't need to be to tweaked before I remembered I'd been damaged on patrol and was being held up an extra three weeks to repair my hull. Good thing the Corrientes has those dry-dock facilities!

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to get rid of the extra days in base for damage except to manually edit some career cfg files, but at least it's possible.

[Gerald]

Yes, Corrientes, has special memories for you

[krautjacket]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Good thing the Corrientes has those dry-dock facilities!

lmao

[B.N.R.T.]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

No problemo, I once spent the better part of an evening trying to figure out why I docked at the Corrientes one fine morning and couldn't leave again until 22 days later.

Took several exits and restarts of the same patrol and lots of wasted attempts at tweaking stuff that didn't need to be to tweaked before I remembered I'd been damaged on patrol and was being held up an extra three weeks to repair my hull. Good thing the Corrientes has those dry-dock facilities!

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to get rid of the extra days in base for damage except to manually edit some career cfg files, but at least it's possible.

I assume the damage you sustained is still magically repaired, though?