Problem with the engine room mens!!!

[miker]

Don't know how-why this happens.
The mens at the engine compartment getting asleep very often.Thus the boat can't move for about 30min unless a change\wake up the crew.
Any ideas how can i solve this annoying problem???
Thank you

[donut]

Battle Stations Drill,Then secure,ought to awaken crew:lol:

[R3D]

refrain from staying at battlestations all the time, you only need to do that when your under attack or doing a torp run on a ship or ships.

[Angus89]

I see similar when i load a save game. The men arent asleep, but compartment efficiency is greeatly reduced. Ive been swapping men from another watch and swapping them back and all is good, but it is a pain. Havent tried the battlestations trick yet.

[-Pv-]

There is a bug in the game that gives 1/3 of the crew very high fatigue when restoring a saved game after crossing the IDL. Patch 1.4 is supposed to fix this bug. When this happens to you, drag a fresh crew into the position temporarily and avoid Battle Stations until the crew are more rested.

I only use Battle Stations when I'm damaged so more crew participate in the non-focused compartment repairs. Otherwise, using it for attacks doesn't seem to help and your noise level goes up making you easier to detect. If you want to use it for attack EXPECTING to get stomped on and you want the crew to respond faster to the damage, then yes, but understand you take a heavy fatigue hit AND noise hit doing so.
-Pv-

[TteFAboB]

Doh. Nevermind.

[miker]

thank you all for the replies only Pv seems to understand the problem.
I don't use the "battle station" command.
It's some kind of a bug

[Capt. Shark Bait]

well, atleast i'm not the only one, now. a few months back i had an entire watch goto sleep while at battle stations. had them court-martialled on the forum here and for some reason the members of it acquitted them:-?

[SteamWake]

There is a bug in the game that gives 1/3 of the crew very high fatigue when restoring a saved game after crossing the IDL. Patch 1.4 is supposed to fix this bug. When this happens to you, drag a fresh crew into the position temporarily and avoid Battle Stations until the crew are more rested.

I only use Battle Stations when I'm damaged so more crew participate in the non-focused compartment repairs. Otherwise, using it for attacks doesn't seem to help and your noise level goes up making you easier to detect. If you want to use it for attack EXPECTING to get stomped on and you want the crew to respond faster to the damage, then yes, but understand you take a heavy fatigue hit AND noise hit doing so.
-Pv-

It does help with torpedo re-load times for those times when you empty the tubes and still have a chance to attack.

[-Pv-]

Agreed.
-Pv-