Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific Message Board  

try this....
Easy way to get as much renown in the shiny new Silent Hunter 4 is to:
Start the game
Go into Career
Make a new career (enter the nick etc) with some test name (you’re not gonna use it later on)
Go out of the game
Find CareerStart.upc file (under X:\Silent Hunter4 Wolves of the Pacific\Data\UPCData\UPCCampaignData)
Edit the file with Notepad (NOT WINWORD!)
10th line from the top starts from “RenownOptions” > Edit it so it looks like “RenownOptions = 1000, 2000, 5000000 (can be any number, 5000000 worked for me just fine)
Save the file
Start the game
Go into Career
Make a new career with the nick you’re gonna use for real
Choose year 1941
Under Renown in the bottom dropdown box choose 5000000
Done
Steps 1 to 4 are needed ONLY if you haven’t started the Career yet.

And how exactly do you go about editing a .upc with notepad?

right click on the file

select "OPEN"

(Box pops up saying windows cant open file blah blah.. gives 2 options 1. ask web service to find or 2. select program from list.)

click "select program from list" then hit "OK"

this will bring up another little window/box. Inside it will be a list of programs. Scroll through and find "Notepad"

IMPORTANT !!! READ THIS !! MAKE SURE THAT THE LITTLE BOX NEAR THE BOTTOM """ALLWAYS USE THE SELECTED PROGRAM TO OPEN THIS KIND OF FILE""" <<< IS NOT CHECKED .. Unless you know what your doing.. :P

ok once you click on "notepad" hit "Ok" and notepad will open up and you can edit the file all you want.

Also.. DO NOT USE THE SAVE AS feature when you are done. Just use SAVE. If you use save as . you will wind up creating a txt file etc..

Hope this helps