Full hull repairs at resupply ships?
 

After a close call with some wasserbombes down in the Gibraltar straits in which I picked up around 30% damage on my hull, I decided to head for the Thalia in Cadiz ('41) for a much needed resupply.

Upon leaving the port I noticed that my hull integrity had been restored to 100%. Is this normal? Full hull repairs at resupply ships?

If I had to guess that would not be possible in reality. As far as I understand, the game treats a supply ship like any land base :)

Correct, the resupply ships were added into the game as additional bases, since IIRC this was the only way to mod them in. Consequently when you dock at one the games "sees" it as you ending your patrol at some base other than your home base. So you get another full complement of fuel and ammo, and any necessary repairs to the boat are made.

Quite right that Frau here say, but you can not do upgrades of the boat, existing platforms such as Flakguns or sonar.

Yes, there are some things that you can only do in your home base - those things cannot be done (or will not be done for you) when you dock at an alternate base or at a resupply vessel.

Well thats excellent news for me then as I love hanging around the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Thalia's only a couple of hundred kms away!:yeah:

Cheers all.

Yup, docking at supply ships gives you a fully-repaired sub, a full default torpedo loadout, and a full supply of fuel.

You cannot issue medals or skills at supply ships, and you will lose any that you earned even when you do finally go home.

You cannot choose your torpedo loadout from a supply ship.

You cannot make crew changes while at a supply ship.

Steve

Well,you can hand out medals,and take loadout (if you go into Basic cfg file)....but I guess this may depend, on the realism you're using, so I'm not a 100 in this ;)

You can hand out medals if you are in SH3Commander. Changing your torpedo loadout would require file editing, but wouldn't that be doing so in "mid patrol?"

Supply ships, is in principle so that you go to your home base, so making changes in the basic file, is for me, not caused any problems at all.

Just one small point not mentioned...you will incur an extra day at the supply ship for every % point of damage your boat has taken.

Yeah, but the patrol has to launch before you can change the loadout (from any where else than home base, where you can truly adjust it "between" patrols), am I right?

It might be perfectly safe; I just don't mess with stuff like that after the patrol has kicked in.

Good/wise principal.

Didn't know that.... So what is the unmodified number of days normally spent at supply ships?

One day, as far as I know as long as you do not have damage to the hull, which jimbuna mentioned above, in the previous item.

I think the 1 day "in base" at a supply ship is a Commander feature - I don't think the game adjusts down your DIB if you dock at a supply ship instead of returning to port. OTOH I've never done it without Commander so I don't know.

With or without Commander, though, you still get those extra days for hull damage. :stare: It can be edited out by tinkering with career files in between patrols but I haven't done it for a while.

No big deal, they're not fully equipped so I don't expect them to be as proficient at repairs as a full port. If they can only hammer out a limited number of dents each day - so be it. They're not miracle workers.

So I guess the moral of the story is - don't dent your boat. :D

Actually it is a big deal IMO when you have to top off the fuel tanks at a supply ship in order to get your seriously damaged boat all the way back to base, only to have the game tell you that you sat next to said ship in some neutral harbor for three weeks and all your damage is miraculously repaired. :-?

That's why I don't like the extra DiB for hull damage in that situation. It's not a question of whether or not some repairs could be made, it's a question of how lengthy a stay there is realistic. 1-2 days, yes; 2-3 weeks, no.

I agree. A supply ship in a neutral port shouldn't even be able to give you more than one or two torpedoes. A full load of fuel and some food is the best they should be able to do. A few parts to let you make some of your own repairs might be possible.

A complete refit should only be done in a fully supplied naval base with a drydock. The whole resupply thing was never done right by the devs, and the modders could only do so much with what they were given.

Fair enough...

My only concern is how unrealistic it would be for a supply ship to complete all repairs in a ridiculously short period of time. As for the other side of the coin, (namely spending an unrealistic amount of time along side), I can totally see your point.

Perhaps Steve is correct in suggesting that full repairs should never have been implemented by the devs. Better to complete makeshift repairs (on a timely basis) and then limp home for added drama.