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Originally Posted by schlechter pfennig
TCx16 shouldn't be all that high.
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Had 5 back-to-back CTDs, at the same date/time/position. Thankfully I'd just made a recent save (and, just as thankfully, I hadn't been depth charged and/or bombed yet) so I could reload the career.
It was 19420212, around 0300, when I'd CTD. I'd just received several hours earlier: "C in C Submarinese@^Submarine Forces at sea^|Operation Cerberus begins. Battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen with escorts are leaving Brest harbour for German seas. All submarines in the area of the British Channel must be ready to help the Operation.||Bdu". I was located in BF26, as previousl;y directed.
It wasn't until I'd stepped down TC to 8X that the CTD went away, and within a minute a contact report appeared: Friendly task force.
I'm guessing that the task group consisting of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen, and escorts, were spawning, and thus the cause of the CTD.
Thing is, I don't know ahead of time when/where/if a group is spawning close to me, and so it being a necessity of dropping TC to 8x. I got lucky this time in that I'd had a (successfully loadable!) game save within an hour of the CTD point, and I simply can't play the game full-time at 8x. For instance, I'm currently leaving Lorient for CA53, a distance that, at ahead one-third (the most fuel-efficient) will take me 434 hours game-time . . . which is 54.25 real-life hours!
I understand that, due to the size/complexity of the ships in WAC that a CTD when a convoy/task group spawns close to you at higher TC is inevitable. But is there a way of forcing a drop to TCx1 just before spawning (scripted or random)? Yes, that kind of gives away that "something is afoot". But I'd rather that small bit of immersion-kill than the total and complete kill of a CTD.