If it was myself playing and I had a contact I would wait until night and chase then . Would a real uboat captain travel on the surface during the day in heavily air patrolled areas :hmmm: . I have no idea , but I don't .

Air Traffic
 

Not to mention (depending on MODS) that once you do get spotted/detected even more air traffic and possible destroyers may come to track/investigate.

I second all that and I am NOT playing on full realism. I have more time to play than you, recently been playing 8 hours per day. I get quite obsessed with good games, and work from home, or sometimes don´t work at all :-)

I think 24 hours patrol would be better especially when you have been given a grid patrol with nothing passing through it. Also at max 512 TC 72 hours takes a fair amount of real time. And getting to some of those mid Atlantic grids when still based in Germany can take between a quarter and half of the fuel tank. Morale among the crew also takes a beating, too much in my opinion. I am finding at end of Total Germany my crew has almost no morale points just by the time we reach patrol area. A week at sea and they seem ready to mutiny, which i don´t think is realistic.

Another thing is the low crew morale after a week or two at sea makes refitting sort of waste of time because of the even longer journeys back and forth that would need. So I am finding I am at sea max 2 weeks before ending patrol...which again is not realistic as in real life they were at sea for weeks if not many months sometimes.

Also I have noticed the promotion points very tied to meeting patrol objective, so to not do the patrol one gets penalised quite heavily. Often what I do is rush to patrol objective, do it with minimal fuel usage, especially if in the middle of nowhere with zero merchant traffic. Then rush off to a choke point and bag some merchants before returning to base.

Anyways I love TWOS and the OH campaign system, just think it could be improved to make it more fun, less chore-like in some circumstances.

Hi Coldcall
I am sure there is a silent majority with the same views.
One thing I do not understand is why when you sink a ship or ships the morale does not go up.
Sinking a ship I would have thought would have elated the crew at least for a short time or longer.
You can see in Das Boot the effect it had.
Peter

Yes i think stock SH5 was supposed to have the morale go up by sinking ships as the Bosun´s dialogue includes advice as to how to raise crew morale (by sinking ships). It is disappointing so many features in stock game were buggy or not working at all.

I suppose the morale cant be fixed?

It is most likely the mod Reworked Morale and Abilities v.1.1
Look at this file .
\data\Scripts\AI\Events\GAMEPLAY_ShipSunk
strategy ShipSunkDefault(Event)
{
precond
{
Event:GetLastSankShipType() == ShipSunk_DefaultShip
}
action
{
Event:RewardMorale( 0.0 );
Event:ScriptCompleted();
}
}

Is it part of TWOS megamod? And is there a way to change it and what to change to? Also I wonder if there is a change that can be made to make the crew´s morale degrade at slower rate. It is making long journeys very difficult.

I don't play Twos but if you change that number to 1.0 then I suspect a career restart will be needed . I will look at the morale .

@ THEBERBSTER and Coldcall

I dont rember who wrote in the forum that he used to pause the game during long-lasting patrol-area objectives, minimized it and put the computer in sleep mode, without problems.

Moreover, I think that some of the automated search scripts might help during such a kind of objectives :salute:

:yep:

When the missions were set as 48 or 72hrs - it was with the understanding that you could save the game.
Now that we know the time spent in mission is not saved a 24hrs may be the best option

24 h around coastal waters and 48 h in open ocean would be perfect IMO...:hmm2:

P.S. I have already set up the files if anyone is willing to try...The files could be enabled anytime I think...:yep:

Hi Trevally
Another correct kill date in the Captain's Log

Peter

Is the tonnage bar bug fixed , I am confused .

I´d like to give them a try but when I start my next career.

Hi Vecko
48 hours in open ocean I can see the reasoning behind that without the air patrols.
I would still prefer 24 hours personally as I said playing at 100% you need to use the hydrophone a lot.
I do not like the scripts where the boat only remains submerged for a 2 minute hydrophone check before moving again.
I prefer to use 2 hours moving and 1 hour submerged and of course this takes up real time.
Peter