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Originally Posted by Mowinz

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Ahead 1/3 is the best telegraph setting. 9 knots fine-tunes it for best efficiency.

Hi Sailor!

This is a good lesson. I'm just beginning to experiment with different TC and speeds. Are you saying 1/3 ahead and 1024 or 2048, etc will be optimal?

I was going at it full flank and 1024 or higher and found out this doesn't work too well because you zipp past the shipping, then, you usually have to turn around completely and chase.

Lowering boat speed and increasing TC is the best solution for game enjoyment?
Is that correct?

Cheers

You never want to use full or flank speed unless you're chasing a known contact (like a ship you've already spotted). It burns too much fuel.

As stated by others, very high time compression should only be used when out in the middle of nowhere and there's not much chance of traffic to miss. SH3 is buggy with missing things at high TC.

Ok Thanks again!

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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Originally Posted by Abd_von_Mumit

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Originally Posted by bigboywooly

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Originally Posted by Abd_von_Mumit

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Originally Posted by bigboywooly

At real high TC you will always miss out on shipping

Unless submerged with sonar manned, I suppose.

True but at 2048TC you wont be submerged for long before batteries flat
:rotfl:

Unless you order 'all stop!'.

;)

But real u-boats couldn't "all stop" underwater. They would either float to the surface or sink to the bottom.

You wouldn't want to cheat, would you?:x

Even if I order "Ahead slow" my batteries will last longer than my crew will - there's enough oxygen/fresh air for about 40 hours, and the batteries last for longer time.

My real concern is that running on batteries for a very long time is a bigger 'cheat' than ordering full stop underwater, because loading batteries doesnt consume any fuel, and thus lets you travel around the world without much trouble. So I try not to travel submerged (snorkel is still not available).