Crew Management; Promotions??

[Snofur]

''You must complete a patrol'' says the game on my 8th patrol...

What must you REALLY do to get a promotion? Currently holding 0, and crew eager to rise in the ranks. Bdu tinkering with my files?


Is it locked by date, year, condition, anything? I'm in late 1939, december.
Please help me, my crew aint happy either.

(Type II, 3000 renown)

[sENoZ]

also... if you play at 10% realism dont expect promotion ^^

Better go to 100%, destroy the maximum boat possible, empty your deck gun ammo ^^ yeah i like canon again destroyer.

and re fuel if you can this is good, then get back in the game do the same, and get back to your base after..

[Snofur]

Originalmente postado por -sENoZ-:

also... if you play at 10% realism dont expect promotion ^^

Better go to 100%, destroy the maximum boat possible, empty your deck gun ammo ^^ yeah i like canon again destroyer.

and re fuel if you can this is good, then get back in the game do the same, and get back to your base after..

Love you, need to use GWX 3.0, even tough it sucks pretty much generally, but i always love GWX co-mods to encance or bring back vanilla features along others, cheers buddy!

[sENoZ]

no problem ^^

Really GWX3 gold edition and MAGUI FINAL for your gui.

This gui is in final version, and very nice looking really.

[Snofur]

Originalmente postado por -sENoZ-:

no problem ^^

Really GWX3 gold edition and MAGUI FINAL for your gui.

This gui is in final version, and very nice looking really.

Do you know if SH-3 Commander supports brest and thoose other bases for the ''start out at sea'' function? Love that, thoose french bases are annoying.


Is there a way to get past faster thoose neutral days like in 1939?

[sENoZ]

Originalmente postado por Snoken:

Originalmente postado por -sENoZ-:

no problem ^^

Really GWX3 gold edition and MAGUI FINAL for your gui.

This gui is in final version, and very nice looking really.

Do you know if SH-3 Commander supports brest and thoose other bases for the ''start out at sea'' function? Love that, thoose french bases are annoying.

Well am French ^^ i like LORIENT AS A BASE.

I dont use SH3 commander man, cause am not interesting about that program or mod..


But there is a mod that add Base, i have it, and have no problem i mean when i activ a mod by using JSGME, if there is a conflict message, i dont enable the mod.


Only for magui was okay, but for other mod you have to look the readme for special instruction.

[Snofur]

Okay, well the main reason is that it takes alot of time to manouver out of thoose bases, and even more to get past the allied map contacts all the time. :P Take probably 10 min before you get out hehe.

Do you get more renown for returning to base in realtime instead of pressing ESC then return to base?

[sENoZ]

>>> Do you get more renown for returning to base in realtime instead of pressing ESC then return to base?


No i dont think you will have less or more renown, what will give you renown, is to destroy ennemy boat and other ennemy type..

What can reduce your renown will be to destroy neutral boat...

if i remember also, if you loose some of your crew or damage part of your sub, you will loose some renown.




Well if there is too much boat when you start a patorl, and i understand i take long to go out of the base....

There is a mod that reduce all these boat in base, but .. i dont remember the name sorry ^^

It was something like lite boat at base something like that man..


If you install GWX 3.0 you will have that mod inside your JSGME, the mod contain LITE inside the name if i remember..

[Snofur]

Originalmente postado por -sENoZ-:

>>> Do you get more renown for returning to base in realtime instead of pressing ESC then return to base?


No i dont think you will have less or more renown, what will give you renown, is to destroy ennemy boat and other ennemy type..

Was can reduce your renown will be to destroy neutral boat...

if i remember also, if you loose some of your crew or damage part of your sub, you will loose some renown.




Well if there is too much boat when you start a patorl, and i understand i take long to go out of the base....

There is a mod that reduce all these boat in base, but .. i dont remember the name sorry ^^

It was something like lite boat at base something like that man..


If you install GWX 3.0 you will have that mod inside your JSGME, the mod contain LITE inside the name if i remember..

Yeah i know that mod, thanks.

[sENoZ]

np man.

[Oparator Stalker]

no they didn't use the deck gun in Das Boat, how ever, old war footage shows the deck gun was used, even in bad weather.

[Oparator Stalker]

Originalmente postado por -sENoZ-:

also... if you play at 10% realism don't expect promotion

Actually I play at 31% realism, and get promotions between me and the crew, regardless. I already showed how the game system works. It is rated by renown and renown only. What I displayed shows the list, and that list doesn't hinder through realism %. That is how the system is done. That list is straight from the basic.cfg file.

Your using a GWX mod, and that mod sets up convoy traffic to be more correct. So you are coming across and getting more. There for unlike the default game, it isn't a few here or there. Plus it fixes the issues with the torpedo's. The default game torpedo's are under powered. So you may need all 4 and maybe a few more for one cargo ship. Were in the GWX mod they are fix to do the job like they were intended. So for you, your getting your booms worth. So you should be drowning in promotions and medals because of the high renown rate per ship payout. You can't waver that by realism %. For each ship sunk, you will get renown pay out. Get enough, and the promotions and medals come in. For you and your crew, I have promoted sailors right into petty officers into officers and right off the boat. No matter if your at 10% or 100% realism.

[sENoZ]

as i said you will have more renown if you play at 100 % realism then 10 or 50 easy as that .....
You will loose renown by attacking neutral boat, having some damage on your uboat, having some of your crew dead, ♥♥♥♥ else also..

You will also win renown by doing the academy school.

nothing else to add.

[Oparator Stalker]

Originalmente postado por -sENoZ-:

as i said you will have more renown if you play at 100 % realism then 10 or 50 easy as that .....
You will loose renown by attacking neutral boat, having some damage on your uboat, having some of your crew dead, ♥♥♥♥ else also..

nothing else to add.

But that is incorrect bro, you get paid for each ship that is sunk.

Go to your data folder for SH3, goto the sea folder, and view one of the ships cfg file.

for example, straight from the GWX mod..

Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Silent Hunter3\data\Sea\NBB_KGeorgeV\NBB_KGeorgeV.cfg

open the "NBB_KGeorgeV.cfg" with a text editor like note pad and find this line..

RenownAwarded=1500

This is what you will get regardless what % rate your at. So if you sunk 3, you renown pay out is going to be 45000. Regardless...

or
if you sunk a Hunter I destroyer it is going to be
RenownAwarded=120

or
a NLTMs (medum fuel tanker that has lights)
RenownAwarded=340

and so forth. These payouts do not change. There is no change per %s. There are no levels here, There never was. The realism % is for difficulty only, if you want to run around with dude torpedo mode checked then you want that handy cap, more correct for WWI but not so much for WWII. If you can do it all, then you can check it all. If you can't then you select what you can. Either way, has no bearing on renown.

The renown pay out and what for as I have listed is as from the default game. And your bank is based off of what you sunk. If you put all the ships at RenownAwarded=1
You will never get any were with ranks and promotions...It is the game system. Been that way since the first release dvd, and I have that the day it was released, including a update one a got 2 years ago and now the steam version. I also have all 3 GWX mods, plus my own personal mod. So I didn't discover it on steam for the first time, and Nothing has changed in the way the game rates you vs renown..

[Oparator Stalker]

I wasn't talking about neutral ships, you do get penalized for that. And I once lost a few crew members but didn't get penalized for that, how ever if you loose enough, the game will claim you lost the boat even though you have enough to run a skeleton crew to get back..

[sENoZ]

if i loose too much crew i just reload my game.

btw i dont cheat wile playing SH 3, i mean i like to win my renown by sinking ennemy boat not by changing some cfg files or else.