Asleep at the wheel

[Reno]

Trying to set up for a shot at an escort carrier with a full deck of aircraft when my crew refused maneuvering orders. A quick look at the crew status showed that most of them were asleep. I thought crew management and shift changes were automatic. Is this a glitch?

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h265/reno187/sleepytime.jpg

[Reno]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=121075&highlight=crew+sleep

I found the above link regarding sleeping crew. I don't buy it that this is a normal occurrance purposely built into the sim. If it is, then realism just went out the window. At no time should a captain have to babysit the crew and give them milk and cookies and maybe a bed time story to make sure they sleep. It's a pretty safe bet that no submarine captain had to abort an attack on a carrier because his crew couldn't wake up. This is way beyond normal fatigue. If it didn't happen in real life than why the heck would anyone bother simulating it? I think it's probably a glitch.

Note: This was a normal cruise off Honshu. No bad weather and only one battle stations which secured almost immediately. Hardly stressful. I did use TC to get into position.

[Lagger123987]

maybe you had battlestations mode still on but would be nice if you can get the deck watch crew to do the shift, there're not asleep yet.

[stuntcow]

Had that problem when I forgot to turn off general quarters. Of course, it was about the same time as you. when I was triing to setup a shot.

[AVGWarhawk]

Yep, sometimes you have to check upon restarting you career that they are not at battle stations. Anyway, hit the battle station button again and they will wake up.

[Reno]

Thanks for the replies. Thought I turned battle stations off but looks like I probably didn't. Another lesson learned. :know:

[subcpo]

What's the problem?


Submariner+Sleep= Heaven