How do you add years to a sub's useage?

Ducimus · 11-20-05, 03:00 PM

Lets say that, you wanted to play the game a little unrealistically, and wanted to use a VII/42 for operation drumbeat in 1942.

Well, you'd think its just a simple matter of adjusting the date of the /42 to, the first month of 1942 instead of its default value in the basic.cfg file.

Well editing this lead you to look at the sub ammo section. After all, you can't have a sub in any given year and not have a loadout for it.

Now herein lies the intresting problem:

A C/42 has loadouts listed for 1943, 1944, and 1945. Kind of odd since the vanilla game has it available for only 2 years starting in 1944. If you look at all the other ship loadouts, you'll find the same thing. A loadout for 1 year before the boat becomes available. As another example, the XXI has a loadout for 1943, 1944, and 45, yet it also becomes available in 1944.

So the problem here is, you want the boat in 1942, yet its loadout only supports 43,44, and 45. So, why not just add an additional loadout and mimic the earliest loadout, and hence adding a 4th year?

Well, this works, only up to 3 years (the number of years the boat was aviable for orignally) but the instant you hit the 4rd year, you run into all sorts of weird behavior. Its like somewhere theres a variable or hardcode that defines exacly how long a boat is used, despite the settings in the basic.cfg file.

Anyone follow me on this? What file or setting am i looking for?

11-20-05, 03:00 PM	#1
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	How do you add years to a sub's useage? Lets say that, you wanted to play the game a little unrealistically, and wanted to use a VII/42 for operation drumbeat in 1942. Well, you'd think its just a simple matter of adjusting the date of the /42 to, the first month of 1942 instead of its default value in the basic.cfg file. Well editing this lead you to look at the sub ammo section. After all, you can't have a sub in any given year and not have a loadout for it. Now herein lies the intresting problem: A C/42 has loadouts listed for 1943, 1944, and 1945. Kind of odd since the vanilla game has it available for only 2 years starting in 1944. If you look at all the other ship loadouts, you'll find the same thing. A loadout for 1 year before the boat becomes available. As another example, the XXI has a loadout for 1943, 1944, and 45, yet it also becomes available in 1944. So the problem here is, you want the boat in 1942, yet its loadout only supports 43,44, and 45. So, why not just add an additional loadout and mimic the earliest loadout, and hence adding a 4th year? Well, this works, only up to 3 years (the number of years the boat was aviable for orignally) but the instant you hit the 4rd year, you run into all sorts of weird behavior. Its like somewhere theres a variable or hardcode that defines exacly how long a boat is used, despite the settings in the basic.cfg file. Anyone follow me on this? What file or setting am i looking for?