Time to break out the Momsum lungs and use your escape hatch....:salute:

Sucky ending to a cool story.

How does everyone work game saves? I rotate three saves so I usually don;t get too far into something that works out badly. Saved my bacon on more than one occasion.

I have one file and save over the top of it. so i have to start a new career. ill start doing something like you do.

i have six temp_savegames which i rotate ...

+ i save when leaving/arriving port /rearming/refuling

+ in the office

so i am quite secure with that ;)

If you're not far from base, hundred miles or less, you can dive and surface over and over. It will let you go one knot while submerged.
So surface, dive and hit the TC and repeat. Takes about 15 minutes using TC to do a hundred miles. It's a pain, but if I had a great patrol with no good save and close to base..I'll do it. I don't consider a cheat, since friendly boats are passing by.

One save, and one save only, other than the default autosaves the game performs.

Guys in our boats didn't get to reload the game if they got unlucky, so why should I?

Yeah, I know I'ma askin' fer it relying on one save, but that's just the way I am, I guess. I save very infrequently when on patrol, usually only when I have to exit the program.

I just rotate a couple of save games just in case of a file going corrupt on me. But if I get killed, that's it - time for a new career. Accepting the consequences of things not going well is something that helps keep the games intensity up, IMO.

Because guys in boats dident have power glitches, ctd's, calls to dinner, and other unavoidable interruptions not to mention carrrer ending snafu's.

Well maybe they did but you know what I mean.

If I goof and send the boat/crew to the bottom that is the end of that career. I start over.

(barring my daughters cat jumping on the keyboard and hitting a key that just screws up the whole sha-bang:shifty:)

Sorry for you felllow, be a patriot and scuttle this boat, order a deep dive and think about the vingins you will reach at heaven. :rock:
Better than give it to the japanese...:D:D:D

80 hours? Man, your submarine might have a secret invention that it can transform from CO2 to Oxygen... :o

I know one that it was used by Navy SEALs.

I always have a couple of good save points in case of some wierd bug.

I played for months..if I die I start over. I made it to late 44 a few times, but got killed. Finally in March of 45 I died and said..screw it, I'm gonna finish the war one time and used the save. I wanted to see what happened at the end of the war....not much game wise.

I've made it this career to late 43. I just wonder how many have done an entire war career without dying with cams and contacts off...just haven't made it yet.

Was driving a jeep over african terrain and a moth landed on my hand, I drove over a cliff!!! OUCH!!

SUUURREEE...

*Me's picturing you picking up the cat and pressing it's claw into the crash dive button while at test depth*

"I'm gonna kill this cat! Well, better reload the ol' save..."

:cool: