Generic Mission Editor issue caused by English.cfg

[Der Teddy Bar]

To stop the notepad informing you that you went over a ship, the English.cfg (and German etc) was edited to remove the ship class names, so for example, Type0=Patrol Craft was changed to Type0=-

This causes the Mission Editor to not have the 'generic Ship Class' option for use in the random group selection.

So instead of having a Generic Battleship, Generic Fleet Carrier, Generic Destroyer, Generic Cruiser and so on, you will only get a single entry Generic.

Images....
With Generic Ship Class - http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7729/image18qc.jpg
Without Generic Ship Class - http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image28iz.jpg
So for editing, just have a copy of the file, drop it in when you are editing and drop the other one back when playing.

In this file, this...
;Warships
Type0=Patrol Craft
Type1=Corvette
Type2=Frigate
Type3=Destroyer Escort
Type4=Destroyer
Type5=Minesweeper
Type6=Light Cruiser
Type7=Heavy Cruiser
Type8=Escort Carrier
Type9=Fleet Carrier
Type10=Battlecruiser
Type11=Battleship
Type12=Minelayer
Type13=Auxiliary Cruiser

Has been changed to this
;Warships
Type0=-
Type1=-
Type2=-
Type3=-
Type4=-
Type5=-
Type6=-
Type7=-
Type8=-
Type9=-
Type10=-
Type11=-
Type12=-
Type13=-

[booger2005]

Yea, except that I think I still hosed my NYGM RND layer by opening it up, thus changing all Generics to battleships.

Oh well, thats when DSL comes in handy

Oh, and BTW, if you've ever heard weird stories about super task-forces with a bunch of battleships etc (I have, on Ubi a while back) I'm willing to bet the ranch the problem is this and they tried to open up the rand layer. Everthing GENERIC turns into, oddly enough, a battleship. So a taskforce of say 2 generic cruisers and 4 generic destroyers becomes one of 6 generic battleships...

So be careful when you open it

[Der Teddy Bar]

Originally Posted by booger2005

Yea, except that I think I still hosed my NYGM RND layer by opening it up, thus changing all Generics to battleships.

Oh well, thats when DSL comes in handy

Oh, and BTW, if you've ever heard weird stories about super task-forces with a bunch of battleships etc (I have, on Ubi a while back) I'm willing to bet the ranch the problem is this and they tried to open up the rand layer. Everthing GENERIC turns into, oddly enough, a battleship. So a taskforce of say 2 generic cruisers and 4 generic destroyers becomes one of 6 generic battleships...

So be careful when you open it

Only if you saved it. There is no automatic save.

And why, might I ask, is the NYGM Tonnage War not enshrined somewhere on your hard disk drive? Well, answer me :rotfl: