I haven't run into the problem myself yet of crew refusing to obey orders, but I have run into the 0 morale on reload. However it hasn't been an issue for me so far.

On my way out of Kiel I checked out my crew screen and noted I had 19 promotion points from the tutorial. I invested most of my upgrade points in the cook (increased cap + special meal x 4 each) and bosun (confident officer x 4) the remainder on the sound man (range) and engineer (decreased noise). If my morale is low, or 0 on reload, I just have the cook make a special meal and it's full again; at least on the crew summary screen it is, the dialogue ones maybe/are? bugged or something. Sometimes they're there, sometimes not. The special meal has a cool down but I don't remember how many hours. I also don't know if there is a finite number of them so I'm trying to use it as often as I can to see if it will run out.

My plan is to put more points in other areas later after some successful patrols. My experience with the game so far is rather limited; just wrapping up my first patrol after the tutorial.

Also note:

On a reload, everybody loses all their experence too.

Also note: That it can get MUCH MUCH worse then just a morale bug on a reload...you can get this wonderful bug...where your crew doesnt exist anymore.....and as you can tell by the efficenty...its impossible to do anything on the boat. This corrupted my recent career completely. All autosaves have it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ter/broken.jpg

morale bug is no problem for me, i just whip up some special meals from the cook and its ok :yeah:

Thought so too, till i ran into that one above...now the crew doesnt exist..

Guess im lucky, i still have my crew :)

I get it all the time. But what does it really effect? All you can't do is do the special abilities anyay. And if you get the cook special meal he can clear it up real quick.

Of course having to do this all the time is totally annoying. SO yeah it better be fixed.

Loss of Morale issue
 

Hmm to be honest I get a loss of morale every time I start the game! -

So much so I'm thinking of buying the latest Stalker - I already have Napoleon Total War which is good as well as Aliens V's Preditor which is entertaining -

None of the above cause the same loss of morale as does Silent Hunter 5 which I've had for three days and already seriously bored with - I know there's some modding activity and some of this looks promising

Guess we will have to wait and see but if you want a lift in morale buys ome other games.

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R

I never thought i would see something like this in a silent hunter game LOL :har::har::har:

lol, thats what i do when i first reload, doesnt matter if i am sneaking into a port or anything else important... on reload, the first thing I always do is run to the cook and tell him to give out a meal to everybody