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Originally Posted by dcb
Back in the early days of SH3, when the buoyancy issue arose for the first time, there was a debate on whether to implement positive or negative buoyancy. IIRC, the general conclusion was that submarines (not just uboats) were built to have a slight positive buoyancy, precisely for the case of engine/battery failures. Eventually, one supermod took the positive buoyancy path, while the other went with the negative one. Though I'm no expert, common sense tells me positive buoyancy should have been norm back then, with less advanced batteries and electric motors, prone to failure.
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Using stock settings I can dive and keep depth without using the engines down to 160m. Between 160 and 180m I need at least 1-2kts to keep the sub floating, under 200m I need 4 and at 250 and bellow I need full power to level up. I consider this a very normal situation for a sub in the 38-45 time period. We are not talking about nuclear subs here and the color markers on the depth dial are for a reason.