No conning tower upgrade for Celeon ? | Forums

[Celeon999]

20. April 1943 and my Gato class has still the old conning tower.

Not even the first cut-down upgrade was offered to me by now.

Is this a bug ?

Is there a way to manually get me the upgrade by modifying a file in the savegames folder ?

[Celeon999]

20. April 1943 and my Gato class has still the old conning tower.

Not even the first cut-down upgrade was offered to me by now.

Is this a bug ?

Is there a way to manually get me the upgrade by modifying a file in the savegames folder ?

[Sparhawk81]

Smash it into a BB's hull... this should mod your conning tower pretty quickly...



Anyway, no, I don't think it's a bug... Ducimus explained that there's a chance you are offered a refit every time you get back into harbor... Dunno how much this chance is likely to happend, tho...

[Ducimus_Rapax]

As a refit comes available you have a random chance to get it, when you dock, when finishing a patrol. What determines the odds of getting one? Ive no idea. Its basically a roll of the dice.

Its kind of a PITA, but you could save the game before docking at the end of a patrol, and then reload the game and dock until you get a refit.

[Celeon999]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Ducimus_Rapax:
As a refit comes available you have a random chance to get it, when you dock, when finishing a patrol. What determines the odds of getting one? Ive no idea. Its basically a roll of the dice.

Its kind of a PITA, but you could save the game before docking at the end of a patrol, and then reload the game and dock until you get a refit. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


Thanks


Hmmm, strange that the devs made this decision.

A conning tower modification was surely a mandatory order for all boats ,ASAP once the decision was made.

I dont think that there were fleet boats which still had the standard conning tower in 1943 or where there any ?

At least i like that you dont have to "pay" renown for this anymore as you had to in SH-III .

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Smash it into a BB's hull... this should mod your conning tower pretty quickly...
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Yeah right. And then i will directly move on to extreme pressure hull modding

[Ducimus_Rapax]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I dont think that there were fleet boats which still had the standard conning tower in 1943 or where there any </div></BLOCKQUOTE>



I think so. On the assumption that they grey paintjob came around the same time as the final cutdowns of the conning tower, this site is rather interesting:

http://www.shipcamouflage.com/submarines.htm

At the very least, we see that they didnt start painting submarines grey until fairly late in the war.

[Sparhawk81]

But changing conning tower and painting in SH4, is only an aestethic improvement, or will influence gameplay too, for example making the submarine harder to spot?

[Sparhawk81]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Celeon999:
Yeah right. And then i will directly move on to extreme pressure hull modding </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Pimp My Boat

[Ducimus_Rapax]

Conning tower and paint is only asthetic. Doesnt effect gameplay. Unless you count the 2nd AA gun with the final late war varient towers.

[Sparhawk81]

Well yes of course... but personally I've used my AA gun just once or twice (not even sure whether against a plane or not), so I don't think thata twin AA would make such a difference...