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Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

another item for the list:
in Flotillas, there are bad dates. 1 - 2/29, 1 - 11/31, and six 6/31

my first career started with a S42 in Brisbane. i accepted the offered upgrade to a Salmon. the next upgrade was to a Gato which means that the code skipped Tambor/Gar.

enemy ships that we hit, sink so fast that we cannot surface in time to watch them.

The dates are like that throughout Stock. I cannot remember if that is in the files we have for Webster... - Don't forget that your "upgrade" to a new command is based upon renown points awarded, so if you did too well, you can indeed bypass a boat level and go to the head of the class(es). Sorry, bad pun. ~AND~ there are a limited number of UpgradeClass settings in Stock, having UpgradeClass=0 for the S-Boats, =1 for the Porpoise, Salmon, Sargo, Gar and Tambor, =2 for the Gato, and =3 for the Balao, which is probably the main reason you "skipped" so many boats.

Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

webs,

not sure if you can remedy this but you asked.....

conning tower upgrades are not implemented...at all.
here is an example of a Gato, June 1943. She should be configured with a Late War conning tower but she still has an Early War conning tower...
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Remember that the conns only come if you have enough points for a New Command, but only when there is not a new boat available for a New Command - and the same patrol restrictions apply as with the boats. The conns might be "dated", but they are like several other aspects of the game, where the game does what it wants with the dates...

Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

how does one match up a piece of equipment to the equipment file (eqp) or an entry in Sensors_sub_US_sim?

for example, we were just upgraded to a Balao class boat.
the hydrophone is NSS_Hydrophone_Ball_02.
where would i find that in the Sensors_sub_US.sim file?
using my genius-level intellect i have narrowed it down to one of three entries. but which one? door #47, 49, or 53?

There is a "Slot" the equipment or weapon sits in on the boat in the SubName.upc file or the UnitParts#SubName.upc file, depending upon where it is supposed to reside. The ID for that slot used will link to the UpgradePackSlot below, which will have a link to the UpgradePacks.upc file, which has links to the Equipment and / or Weapons upc file(s), which is where you will find the "link" to the actual 3D asset - if there is one... It is def not easy to trace through that "spider web", as ETR3(SS) calls it... since you're asking for a specific item in the Sensors_sub.dat file, looking in the Equipment.upc for that particular "call" yields Equipment 22, Sonar Head Hoist, which links to UpgradePack31, UpackWCASonar, where it is invoked twice, along with the SonarWCAStack. After that, it is used in most of the SubName.upc files for an UpgradePackSlot to populate the Slot in the subs (Compartment 5. EquipmentSlot 6 in the Balao)... So there it is, frontwards and backwards, and I still don't understand it...