Originally Posted by propbeanie

As KaleunMarco says, the date of acceptance is the key. If you took delivery of the new boat prior to 1942-10-21 as above, then that could well be almost 100% of the trouble. It is not a "bug" at Brisbane anymore than at Fremantle or Pearl, or anywhere else the $%^#$% game "awards" the player with an early "New Command". We have moved the Availability dates backward and forward multiple times, and it matters little where we put the dates, nor does it matter if we put early missions in place for that "just-in-case", because while you won't CTD now, and you might get assigned one of those early missions, they usually will not complete and you cannot dock the boat, even if you do wait for a proper AvailabilityInterval (as the game calls it). It just will not work properly. On the chance that it does eventually allow you to dock, upon doing so, you are summarily "Retired"... Now, I can't do anything "early" or "late" in the game with modding, but the game itself sure can, and it makes a mess of things. This is also why we used to see inappropriate ships that did not exist at the time, being assigned to convoys and (usually) not having skins on them. We split some of the classes assigned as escorts into smaller groups for "early" and "later" assignments, which has minimized that particular trouble, but we cannot find a way around the Stock games issue of giving out early boats as an "award" to the high-score player... The ONLY alternative is to make ALL boats available 19380101, and even if we did that, the game would probably try to assign it to you 1937-09-31...

As for your keyboard thingie, can you load that with a bat file prior to playing the game, or is that purpose-build as an SH4 mod. If it is built that way, does it change any key assignments? If it does, that can contribute to SH4 issues also, since the FotRSU key assignments are different from stock, and slightly different from TMO also... If all the EasierAI does is change the cfg file, you should be OK with that.