Watch crew clothing?

[MarkShot]

What makes these guys (the game) decide to change clothing for the watch crew? Sometimes, they are up there in hurricanes with no rain gear. Other times, they have their rain gear on clear and bright blue day. I suppose none of this actually matters to game play.

???

Thanks.

[GoldenRivet]

The watch crew decides what to wear based on the weather conditions at the time when you place them on the watch tower. If it is clear and sunny, they will wear regular clothes until you submerge and resurface or you send up a new watch crew that will decide on their own what to wear based on the weather conditions at the time you send them on the watch tower. Their clothes do not change over the course of a day as weather patterns change. therefore you may see a watch crew in the dead of a winter storm wearing regular clothes.

If the weather is rainy and stormy when you surface or change watch crew they will wear rain gear. it is all based on the weather conditions when you send them up.

Their clothing choice does not reset unless you replace the entire watch crew, OR you hit "P" to begin the dive sequence, when the watch crew comes below deck then hit "S" to bein the surface sequence. the watch crew will automatically wear the correct gear based on the conditions that you send them up in... their choice of clothing does not change based on the weather change.

it would have been nice if the watch crew was automatically cycled every 6 or 8 hours, this would correct the issue of clothing choice to an extent.

[MarkShot]

One other question ... how come the Watch Officer's weather report does not match the what I am seeing from the bridge? WO report no precipitation and I see torrential rain?

Thanks.

[Schöneboom]

Come to think of it, even when it's not stormy, they ought to be in grey leather coats, not just their shirts. Is there a mod to give them the grey leather? (I know about the black leather mod, and that doesn't look appropriate for watch crew, more for the below deck machinists).

Danke!

[GoldenRivet]

Im not sure but i think in real life... most times they would be wearing the "rain gear" anyhow. Lot of salt water spray out there you know.

[Vacillator]

I think my current Type IXC crew are made of tougher stuff than my previous VIIB crews. I've played around with this, and they only clobber up fully when it's really chucking it down. Otherwise even in high winds, light precipitation etc. replacing the watch, diving and surfacing etc. seems to have no effect.