Yeah that's usually when I get it right up the ol' wazoo.
Just as I get up to go to the bathroom or kitchen, that's when I hear the alarms going off....
"Were taking damage sir!!"
"Flooding in the torpedo room!!"
"Damage to engines!!"

WTF.......:o:o:o
I'm in the middle of the pacific ocean!?

I thought the game was supposed to reduce time compression when an event took place. "Radar contact!" or "Ship bearing....."

Problem there is the TC is as brain damaged as the crew AI, it will drop for really IMPORTANT stuff like PAC news and contact reports, and especially sightings of horribly dangerous things like fishing boats, but three destroyers coming at you doing 34 knots with guns blazing is too mundane to bother with until the first HE rounds actually hit. :-?

and with time compression on by the time you fall, slide, trip and stumble your way back to your keyboard TC has allowed those three destroyers to launch 5" shells at you at the same rate as a mini .50.
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When you start taking damage it doesn't help to have your finger on the backspace key since it DOES automatically drop to 1 at the first loss of hit points. The problem is how long it takes, at the first hit program commands stop TC, it takes 1 second to stop it - if TC is at 1024 1 second is about 17 minutes of game time, which is a lot of banging.

I sneak into Osaka frequently to shoot fish in a barrel (KOBE always has some juicy CVs and BBs sitting at anchor) and often get caught in shallow water by a patrol who promptly summons every subchaser and destroyer in the harbor. Finally sink a few and get the rest biting on a decoy long enough to sneak off a few miles and settle on the bottom while the DC crew repairs damage, but no TC allowed while you're waiting - if TC is higher than 4 while you're sitting on the bottom, the "run aground" program kicks in and starts taking hit points away. Rapidly.

Which mission is that?
I do the one were you have to sink the Yamato but it takes a long time thru enemy waters and heavy enemy traffic just to get there.
Every time I use TC after setting a predetermined course I get hammered half way there. Not sure by what.

It's been a long time since I went Asiatic, but as I recall it was a photo mission out of Pearl to Osaka Bay - after taking the pics and sinking the ships at Osaka I had a few fish left, headed up to Kobe. And found the jackpot.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=201622

Been going there ever since even if it's not my patrol area - finish the mission, got two small old freighters and some junks and fishing boats and keep running into nothing but junks and fishing boats, ho-hum. Let's go to Kobe and get some serious tonnage. Shallow water, coastal batteries, antisubmarine patrols all over the place, real challenge to sneak in and out but racking up tonnage is fish in a barrel. :rock:

Is the Asiatic the asiatic mod or a particular mission in the stock game?

Not a mission persay, just something we do to screw with the IJN :P...I prefer doing it when his majesty is touring the harbor and eyeing his pretty ships :har:

...jk

P.S. "Asiatic" means Asiatic fleet, you start at Manila, then end up in Java and finally in Freemantle (due to the first two being captured by Japan)

"Gone Asiatic" is Navy slang for an Asiatic fleet sailor who has "gone native", become so accustomed to Asian culture and the way things are done in the Asiatic fleet that he would no longer fit into other fleets or American society.
Recommended movie "Sand Pebbles" with Steve McQueen and Candace Bergen.
The Gone Asiatic mod is for Asiatic careers, not an actual mission but starts with the player having to fight his way out of Manila against a Japanese invasion then carry out whatever mission was assigned. The mod includes two "secret" resupply bases at Luzon and east of the Celebes Sea so you can restock and refuel after fighting your way out to sea.

The actual Osaka photo recon mission is one of the Pearl Harbor career missions, best I remember - my point was it's been many years since I quit doing Pearl Harbor careers and "went Asiatic", all my career starts now are Asiatic Fleet Porpoise or Sargo so it's hard to remember for sure which mission from Pearl assigns Osaka. Whatever mission I have, with the Spectre 42 resupply base in the islands in Luzon Straits I can go to Osaka and Kobe after completing the main mission if I want.

So you basically just float around out there in your own "commandeered" sub doing whatever you please with no regard for your superiors or what new orders they may have for you.
:nope::nope: Shame, shame. Were do I sign up....:D

All you have to do is "Go Asiatic", primary reason some sailors preferred Asiatic duty was because it was traditionally looser and wilder than the Atlantic or Pacific fleets. :arrgh!: Seriously, a patrol is supposed to last about 3 months, with a Pearl Harbor career half that time is eaten up cruising to and from over those vast stretches of empty Pacific. Asiatic careers you're closer to the action at the beginning, then mid 42 you got a long slog from Australia - unless you download my mod;

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=211844

Which after the fall of Java changes your home port to Phantom 42 in the Celebes instead of Freemantle. Spend a week or two accomplishing your assigned mission, after that contribute to the war effort for another month or two by blowing stuff up before returning to port. :rock:

Asiatic was great until Adm. ****tard (spoken Christie) refused to acknowledge the problems with the Mk 14 torpedoes that he helped with back in the day when he was assigned to BurOrd. Uncle Charlie saw that problem solved for SubPac boats long before SubSoWesPac.

Happily, for those crews, getting Midway as a sub base does eventually shave about 1,225 miles off that trans-Pacific slog.

The downside---no women in port. :O:

Damn...why even stop just keep going!!:nope: