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Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER

Hi Vecko
I would like to see less active officer icons with the Captain giving those orders directly to the Officers avatar.
This would give the player a sense of acting more like a real Captain would do with a greater sense of responsibility to his crew rather just pressing icons.
You as a Captain need to be constantly intouch with your officers.
I would also like to see a teleport link to the command room or some other way to get there.
Peter

Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER

Hi Vecko
More orders to the crew is most welcome.
It is very easy to be static and just press icons.
Interacting and having to move to speak to a particular officer for your order to be carried out makes the game more realistic.
For example having to go to the chief to order periscope depth or to surface would make the game more challenging than just pressing those convenient icons.
v2.06 is looking good, thank you for your hard work.
Peter

Weren't U-boats equipped with telephones and voicepipes?

Some interesting readings on the subject:

http://rnsubs.co.uk/dits-bits/articl...oats/u889.html (6th paragraph):

The hydroplanes were both electrically and hand operated. The steering was from the control room or the conning tower, the latter position being portable so that it could be taken on the bridge when running on the surface. Hand steering was done from the after torpedo compartment with voice pipe and telephone comms [U-889, Type IXC U-Boat].

http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-570/U-...tishReport.htm (under chapter III, 'Communications' paragraph, item #89):

Communication between the control positions and the tubes is by loud speaker telephone and voicepipe [U-570, Type VIIC U-Boat].

http://www.uxxx.altervista.org/alter...ansstation.pdf (third picture):

In the picture below you can see the voice pipe in the top centre of the picture. This pipe came down from
the bridge [U-505, Type IXC U-Boat].

http://www.u-boatstory.co.uk/educati...cationpack.pdf (under the 'Who were U-534’s crew?' chapter, 10th paragraph):

The chief engineer (leitender ingenieur)
communicated to all compartments via telephone
and voice pipe [U-540, Type IXC/40 U-Boat].

All in all, I think that all the U-boat compartments were conneceted through speaking tubes, anyway, supposing that the statement above is not true, had the commander been in a compartment not equipped with such a device, I think he would have normally dispatched his orders through low-rank crew, rather than having to walk to each officer's station.
For the reasons above, new commands by dialog are a welcome addition, but imho they cannot replace New-UI's officer's commands, unless we found a way to add interactive 3D voicepipes to each compartment that we can walk to and click on for issuing dialog-type orders