editing ship tonnage

Keelbuster · Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 263 Location: TO, ON

is there an easy way to modify the base tonnage that one gets for sinking a particular ship (both in game in and in recog manual)?

I can't live with (NYGM TW setting) that the T3:T2:small tanker = 8300:5890:5480. It's just not believable. If small tanker is 5k then T3 should be >10k. T3 should be 7 or 8 k.

How can I adjust this?

Kb

VonHelsching · Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 666 Location: Athens, Greece

My understanding is that the tonnage is affected by SH3Cdr by default. I do not know about NYGM, but I suspect that the .cfg are also corrected with the new calculated realistic tonnage.

I do not know also about the rec manual, but for the game you can edit the ship displacements.cfg in the cfg dir of SH3Crd. I suspect that it will do the trick.

Sailor Steve · Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject:

Commander has the tonnages change by date, so they change from month to month. These are in the SHIII Commander date folders.

Wulfmann · Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 507 Location: Florida

You can open the "Sea" folder in "data", open the ship you want to change then open the cfg file and change the tonnage to whatever you want. You can also open the en and ge log files and change them there as well.

I agree the T2 is way off by looking at the dimensions which dictate tonnage.
By comparing the C2 and C3 dimensions I believe the T2 is around 7-7500 tons and the small tanker should be less than 4000 tons. There should also be a reduction in the number of T3s in convoys.
But, that is my opinion (based on those actual numbers, though)

Wulfmann

AG124 · Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 770 Location: Canada

According to this site, the standard light (unloaded) displacement of the Small/Patapsco Tanker is 1,850 t. And the full (loaded) displacement is 4,130 t. I guess that is GRT.

http://warships.web4u.cz/lode.php?language=E&stat=USA&typ=AOG&trida=Patapsco

booger2005 · Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 183 Location: Akron Ohio

The T2, which also represents an actual class, seems to have grossed 9,900.

http://www.t2tanker.org/t2-history.html

JScones · Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 1129 Location: Australia

If you are using SH3 Commander then you can change the base tonnage in one file - 'Ship displacements.cfg'. The current tonnage figures are based on analysis that Observer undertook mid-last year and are considered the most accurate. There's an in depth thread around on the subject.

By editing the aforementioned file you can set the base tonnage to whatever you like (and have it also reflect in the Museum). You can adjust or even remove the randomisation aspect and yearly displacement increase (2% per year for some classes). You can delete the file if you want to remove the feature altogether. In which case whatever values are in SH3 will be used.

Of course, if you don't use SH3Cmdr, then you'll need to adjust each ship's cfg and log files under \data\Sea\.

Wulfmann · Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 507 Location: Florida

booger2005 · Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 183 Location: Akron Ohio

U-Bones · Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56 Location: Ground Zero

This lays open the displacement and renown for all ships in GW 1.1 for those who use SH3 Commander 2.5 and are comfortable using notepad.

Copy or paste or replace all or portions of the file
c:\program files\sh3 commander\cfg\ship displacement.cfg

enjoy - but at your own risk. change or ignore what you dont like Wink