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McHibbins 03-03-10 11:50 AM
Some ships were sunk after days.....and some were recovered and built up again (in the early days of war). Often those who didnīt want to go down were sunk by friendly fire to prevent from accidents.

Wilcke 03-03-10 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by killpo1 (Post 1289925)
The only problem i had was that the ship was a flaming inferno of death, maybe I should have taken a picture, but with it basically being dead in the water a fair but submerged and as previous state, a flaming inferno of fire ( 75% + of the ship was on fire ) i'm not quite sure that when a distress ship got there that there would be anything left then a burnt carcass of a ship. If it had no already sunk yet.

However this is not the main problem, i put a holed (2 being torpedo the rest AP Deck gun) into all but maybe one of her starboard side and she barley even leaned toward that side. Now im not a Ship Engineer but i'm fairly certain that would have flooded a majority of the ship, and eventually over time, i have no problem waiting 3-4 hours in game time for a ship to sink ( i waited 12 hours in game time), but for it to not sink at all is kind of well, weird.
Without digging into the innards, its difficult to say whether the visual damage effects are actually producing any damage to the sinking physics of the ship involved. Time will tell. Patience grasshopper, patience.

Sailor Steve 03-03-10 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Highbury (Post 1289738)
I am saying that each Captain had two statistics. One for Sunk and One for Damaged. Both were recorded separately in real life so I would like both recorded separately on our records in game. I don't care about any leaderboard. Is that clear enough? For those who do get excited over leaderboards then I would be quite happy to leave those counts out if it. I want it for realism in my log.
Do you have any direct reference to actual records. I love Uboat.net, but this site disagrees http://www.uboataces.com/articles-su...l-attack.shtml

I've never heard of captains being awarded for damage before, except as a footnote; especially if the ship was repaired and returned to service. What does Blair say in his books.

Yes, I agree it would be nice to have damage reported, especially if the ship ends up being scrapped. I don't think it should apply to renown, though, but that's just my opinion.


My big question to add to the OP's though, is this: Do you still have to be within sighting distance of the target to get the credit. Realistically you should be awarded even if it sinks two days later. It would be a nice surprise. It would also be a nice surprise to be notified that the ship made it to port and you're out of luck, credit-wise.

KV 03-03-10 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1290613)
Do you have any direct reference to actual records. I love Uboat.net, but this site disagrees http://www.uboataces.com/articles-su...l-attack.shtml

I've never heard of captains being awarded for damage before, except as a footnote; especially if the ship was repaired and returned to service. What does Blair say in his books.
Just a note, for me at least it would be interesting to just have the damage acknowledged, not for score or anything rank related but just for the record. A bit like the stats for u-boat captains on Wikipedia (e.g. Prien etc.). I'm sure they'd mention of they'd put 8 torpedoes into the biggest carrier or whatever the enemy had and that it didn't sink but was abandoned. Or whatever.

Ducimus 03-03-10 05:51 PM
>> [REQ] Natural Sinking/Ship Death

It is way too early to be thinking about this kind of thing.

Von Schmidt 03-03-10 10:14 PM
The Kriegsmarine did keep track of Dammaged tonnage. Dammaging a ship is going to put the ship out of action for a limited amount of time. Doenitz's book gives mention of this accounting "u-90s attack on west bound convoy on115 two ships sunk for 16518, an one damaged for 10,000 tons" Admiral Raeders book also mentions this type of accountablilty .

Highbury 03-03-10 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1290613)
Do you have any direct reference to actual records. I love Uboat.net, but this site disagrees http://www.uboataces.com/articles-su...l-attack.shtml
Actually UBoat.net is a good enough reference unless you think they made up the figures for damaged ships on that site, and I doubt you would believe that. It shows that in an informal way damaged tonnage was being counted, even if some websites don't list them or consider them pertinent.

It should not count on any leaderboard, or be rewarded with renown, but I think it would be nice if it was included as a note in your patrol logs, as was done in real life. That's all. I think anyone who used SH3Commander would probably agree that these little details make a game career much more full.

killpo1 03-04-10 12:01 AM
Lol i can see it now; Total Tonnage Sunk: 150,000 Total Damaged Tonnage: 1,000,000.3 /cry

But yeah i would enjoy seeing at least the damaged i caused even though i didn't sink them

Sailor Steve 03-04-10 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Highbury (Post 1291677)
Actually UBoat.net is a good enough reference unless you think they made up the figures for damaged ships on that site, and I doubt you would believe that. It shows that in an informal way damaged tonnage was being counted, even if some websites don't list them or consider them pertinent.
I'm sure their figures are accurate. I was objecting to 'awards' based on them. Your following paragraph cleared that up nicely.

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It should not count on any leaderboard, or be rewarded with renown, but I think it would be nice if it was included as a note in your patrol logs, as was done in real life. That's all. I think anyone who used SH3Commander would probably agree that these little details make a game career much more full.
Gotcha. I originally thought you were rooting for awards when you were just advocating full acknowledgement.

I was on a different page, and now that you've cleared it up for me I agree wholeheartedly.:rock:

Bilge_Rat 03-04-10 10:58 AM
On another issue, obviously the damage system is still using the Hit Point system. However the devs mentioned the flooding system had been improved.

Has anyone looked in the game files to see if there is any improvement over SH4?

Even though modders, for example RFB 2.0, had made improvements to the flooding and sinking mechanism, there were still problems caused by the fact that certain things were hardcoded and could not be changed.

killpo1 03-04-10 11:25 PM
yeah Bilge Rat I've noticed that to, i swear a hit point system for a ship is uber annoying, being forced to keep shelling it till it explodes is rather quite annoying, i prefer putting a few AP shells on the waterline and letting her sink.


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