Tmie compression recommendations?

[Slick Wilhelm]

Seeing as I have young children and limited time on my hands, is there any downside to cranking up the time compression while patrolling a certain area?

Currently, when I'm patrolling an area, and not in transit to/from base, I use 512 compression, or sometimes 1024. But since I'm using TMO/RSRD/ROW/NSM and I'm in an S-class boat without any surface radar, I very seldom see any shipping. I stop about once every two days to dive & listen with my hydrophones, too.

Is there any danger of missing something important if I jack up the time compression to the max while searching for targets? I'm just a little paranoid as to whether the game will actually be able to go to TCx1 if my lookouts spot something on the horizon.

[Midnight Hunter]

I am in the same boat (literally lol) I have 4 kids running around and all the other good stuff to do around the house so I use 2048 while in transit to my sector and I use 1024 while in the sector. Using TM and RSRD and I still get my fair share of contacts on the surface, although I get way too much air traffic and spend more time doing the dive surface roller coaster than anything :stare:

When I did have a weekend of time all to myself I used less compression and actually "patrolled" my secotr and didn't come up with much more than the previous time I did the same mission. SO I say if you don't have much time dive into TC and you get what you get.. just make it count :up:

[Slick Wilhelm]

I am in the same boat (literally lol) I have 4 kids running around and all the other good stuff to do around the house so I use 2048 while in transit to my sector and I use 1024 while in the sector. Using TM and RSRD and I still get my fair share of contacts on the surface, although I get way too much air traffic and spend more time doing the dive surface roller coaster than anything :stare:

When I did have a weekend of time all to myself I used less compression and actually "patrolled" my secotr and didn't come up with much more than the previous time I did the same mission. SO I say if you don't have much time dive into TC and you get what you get.. just make it count :up:

MH, are you in an S-class boat, too? And in early war? I haven't seen a single Japanese airplane yet. In fact, I haven't seen any planes yet. I must be picking slow spots to patrol, because I'm finding very few Japanese ships...and when I do, it's always at night, pitch black, in a storm! :damn:

Anyway, it's early feburuary '42 now, and I've just left Surabja on my 2nd war patrol enroute for the Celebes Sea area again in S-37.

Also, I'm getting absolutely no radio reports of convoys. I thought the mods I'm using reduced, but not eliminated the radio contact reports. Maybe just a fluke?

[Midnight Hunter]

Yes.. I was in an S-class and early war as well. What I did was request a transfer to manilla for my new career rather than start in Pearl and you get better patrol sectors (close to formosa and the phillipines where alot of shipping movement is). Before that when based out of pearl I would do full month patrols and have to go home with no tonnage sunk and it was a waste of alot of time (not that I am looking for a shooting gallery but atleast the odd ship or convoy here or there) Try doing that in your next career(the tranfer to manilla) and see if it works out better. Now I am having to pick which convoy or TF to go after as I get more reports and see more traffic, plus I dont need to use TC to travel across the whoel pacific anymore :up:

[Slick Wilhelm]

Actually, I started in Manila, so I've been cruising the same area you've been. You must've bribed the HQ more than I did, though, because I'm not getting any convoy reports from them.

[Dantenoc]

Many of us have found that you shouldn't cranck up the time compression higher than 128... more or less. The exact number will vary from person to person, but most of us agree that the game behaves very weirdly at higher time compressions, where you'll either miss a lot of ships or get suddenly jumped on and killed without any warning by enemy ships and planes (specialy planes)

[Kapitan_Phillips]

I am in the same boat (literally lol) I have 4 kids running around and all the other good stuff to do around the house so I use 2048 while in transit to my sector and I use 1024 while in the sector. Using TM and RSRD and I still get my fair share of contacts on the surface, although I get way too much air traffic and spend more time doing the dive surface roller coaster than anything :stare:

When I did have a weekend of time all to myself I used less compression and actually "patrolled" my secotr and didn't come up with much more than the previous time I did the same mission. SO I say if you don't have much time dive into TC and you get what you get.. just make it count :up:
MH, are you in an S-class boat, too? And in early war? I haven't seen a single Japanese airplane yet. In fact, I haven't seen any planes yet. I must be picking slow spots to patrol, because I'm finding very few Japanese ships...and when I do, it's always at night, pitch black, in a storm! :damn:

Anyway, it's early feburuary '42 now, and I've just left Surabja on my 2nd war patrol enroute for the Celebes Sea area again in S-37.

Also, I'm getting absolutely no radio reports of convoys. I thought the mods I'm using reduced, but not eliminated the radio contact reports. Maybe just a fluke?


Hang on, pitch black, heavy storm, at night, in an S Boat?

You should change your name to Sick Wilhelm :rotfl: