Problems with last nights patrol

[hunter301]

Well I finally got my laptop hooked up to my 52" flatscreen T.V.
Pretty cool actually although I had trouble reading some of the text on the screen without looking back down at my laptop screen. What made it so immersive is that my 14 yr. old son was out there with me getting in on the action.

I was running the Tokyo-Saipan convoy mission. Moderate sized convoy but a crap load of destroyer cover including a light cruiser.
I was doing alright. Had about 800' feet of water under me so I would sneek up to P-depth take out a ship and dive back down about 30' off the bottom and wait until my "fish" were reloaded before going back up. Had a thermal around 200' that hid me pretty well.
Anyway with 3 destroyers and one light cruiser sitting on top of me I got DC'ed pretty good when I came back up. Started taking all kinds of damage, flooding in the boat, both scopes destroyed, engines damaged, batteries damaged, etc....
Now here's the part that just took away from the realism completely. My son said to go back into the control room view to see what was going on with all the damage. He was hoping to see water streaming out of pipes, crew scurring around fixing damage, etc....
Nope..You would have thought they were serving tea and crumpets it was so calm and normal in the control room. XO was still looking at the map. Guys going to go blind by the end of the patrol.
One other note...I was taking severe flooding in the engine room which like many other missions had the ass end of my boat hanging down at a 45 degree angle. In another thread "Moving thru the boat" we are discussing being able to adjust forward and aft trim tanks to be able to level out the boat in this very situation. shouldn't the repair crew have access to trim controls to adjust the boats current condition. Even if you can't do it manually thru the game it should part of their program to do this first right.

[Armistead]

A sub had 100's of gauges and no the game doesn't let you adjust trim, consider it automatic by the crew. You wouldn't be able to adjust trim any better than the game currently does with that amount of damage...in fact trim is basically done perfectly in the game.

What sub are you in to dive below 700t?

If you're at battle stations you'll see some crew doing repair, the rest manning stations. It's eye candy only, you won't see crew running around fixing exact repairs....

If you get a bad down angle you have a few choices to hold depth or rise up. First try speed to see if you can hold a certain depth. Usually you have to go the opposite direction of the angle, simply, if you're going down by the bow, you need to use reverse with speed. If that doesn't work, add P scope depth to it or blow tanks...If you're under attack, it's a matter of going up and down while dived to keep from heading below crash depth..

[hunter301]

What sub are you in to dive below 700t?

I was in a Balao class.

That was another issue. When I did a depth check it told me I had 680' under the keel and I was already running at 100'. This was before I ever started my attack run. Once I made my attack, emptied my tubes and shot for the bottom event camera showed the bottom coming up out of nowhere. I hit the level out key rather quickly and finally leveled off around 30' from the bottom and I was only 350' on my depth gauge.
Why did the game lie to me when I asked what my depth was.
Navigation map showed all dark water around me which should have indicated the same depth pretty much all around me, correct?

[Sniper297]

I think the "deep" on the map indicates anything from 300 to 8000 feet, shallow can be anywhere from 1 to 150 feet. So ping at depth to keel 100 DUK 680, 780 feet actual depth.
350 plus 30 DUK = 380, it's entirely possible for the bottom to rise 400 feet in a few hundred yards or less, and that wouldn't be shown on the oversimplified chart in the game.

"If you're at battle stations you'll see some crew doing repair"

That's why I keep the damage control slots empty unless it actually needs repair, that idiot standing by the forward planesman prying on a gear with a screwdriver always makes me want to rig a grating and tell the bosun to get his cat-O-nine-tails. :arrgh!: