Buncha lazy bums...

[ScornEmperor]

Anyone else see a bug where everyone on your ship is assigned to a single duty shift? It's happening to me. Everyone on the ship receives the activity "Standing Watch" and then they ALL fall asleep at the same time. It means my ship can't move, attack, etc, while people are asleep (unless I man those stations myself). The engines go offline during the group-nap.

How do I fix this?

This is my second patrol. The only difference from the first is that I recruited a full team of damage control specialists...

[CCIP]

Are you sure you didn't just enable battle stations and forget to disable it?

Just in case, I'd tick the "Battle stations" button to on and off - that should put them back on normal watch.

[ScornEmperor]

Yeah that was it. I realized what happened:

The "Enter" key is really close to the + key. Apparently pressing Enter instead of + (when you want to increase game speed) will launch a torpedo. This must also have place my people at battle stations (or I accidentally hit another Battlestations key). Pressing Battlestations off fixed the problem. Woot.

[Quillan]

That's what it sounds like, however I had one of those pop up earlier tonight. I loaded a save game from last night I'd made as I was escaping from a singularly unsuccessful attack on a convoy (fired 10 torps, hit with perhaps 2, premature detonations, duds and misses got the rest) and discovered a short time later, when I switched off silent running, that the torps weren't loading. The reason? Everyone was about to pass out due to fatigue. I don't know if it was weather near the surface not letting the ones off duty rest or what (it was very bad), but I had to dive down deep before anyone started regaining fatigue. I even had the boat stall out for a bit, when the engine room watch lost all their efficiency.