Details?
:hmmm:

Oh yes please. This is exactly one of the reasons I started the group. So we can share our breakthroughs while modding the game.

How to Changing Default Captains name:
 

In the US Pacific Careers, edit menu.txt (near) line 134 as shown below with a text editor, NOT Word. Use something like Notepad.

It typically says, "John Doe" (or some other name if a mod) for the Captain Name:

Approximate Line #:

133=Career lost!

;default name for the player starting a career
134=A. Anker;John Doe
135=Bernard Von Unfall

My name will be, Rank A. Anker ---> i.e. ---> LCDR A. Anker

Menu.txt is found in your main game installation folder, then:
\Data\Menu\Menu.txt

The semi-colon after my name and before, "John Doe" above reminds me what it said, and prevents "John Doe" from being displayed.

Important:
If you are running a mod that alters menu.txt you should disable the mod with JSGME first, then make the edit before enabling the mod again.

I don't play the U-Boat side, however the procedure may be the same.

Find out what the default Captain name is and do a search in menu.txt for that name and make the edit following the procedure similar to that described above.

Happy Hunting!

yep as Aanker say and the U-boats is same

has anyone figure out how to place nets and mines in the harbors

What steps do you need to do to add a AI gun and get it to work in game? Never mind I figured out my problem, was a barrel name in the sim file DOH!

You just Need to figure the depth of the port you want to mine, then set the depth of the mines according to that at around -1 to -15.

A minefield Needs a waypoint to start (is only a waypoint if Memory serves) and the next Point is the actual field placed. As it is a circle calculate the area covered and set the mine-density. Note that this is in meters!

One Point: high density slows the game down.

greetings

Jolie

would slow down harbor raiding or make it harder anyway

Yes, the nets do that too, but mines have more of an Impact on gamespeed.

so it be better to use nets then instead of mines :yeah:

Have a look at the "Hellcat-Warpatrol", there you can see what a minefield should be.
You can use mines and nets but I guess this is single-Mission-only as it would slow the game.
What do you have in mind?

What is the most common error that would make a conning tower not show up?

I assume you are talking about your boat's tower.

Check whatever changes you made, before the errors started.

Check what is written in *.eqp file. Are the dates correct? Are the nodes correct?

Someone else may have better ideas.

My 1st 'mod' in SH4.
 

The first mod I tried back in 2007 was this fix for firing a torpedo every time I bumped the Enter Key that wasted many of my first torpedoes. Today I read a post by Sniper297 that describes the solution that so many including myself used in Stock SH4 to prevent this accidental firing of our valuable torpedoes:

For Stock SH4 v1.5 & 1.4.
Sniper297 wrote:
Happy Hunting!