What do you do when out of fuel
 

OK, so I'm sittin' DIW, what happens next? Is there any recovery if you run out of fuel? :-?

Thanks

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Go into your documents folder. In my case for windows 7, find the C:\Users\<yourprofilename>\Documents\SH4\Data\Cfg folder. Open up the GameplaySettings.cfg file. Look for LimitedFuel=true and change the entry to LimitedFuel=false. Save the file.

Now you will be able to get back to base. Once back at base, you can go into options and change the limitedfuel entry.

:Kaleun_Salivating:

Take out your pedals and start rowing guy's, THAT'S A ORDER!!!

PS_ Hope you're not that far out of home port.



J/K
Either consider this career lost or do the spoiler MikeMike47 suggests... Oh and try to explain that to SUBCOM :woot:

One possibility I've heard of:
Submerge and run on battery.
When the battery gives out, surface.
Even though you're out of fuel, the battery still recharges.

It's slow going, but I've heard of people making it back to port this way.
I remember reading about one boat that was heavily damaged. The crew tried to rig up a sail to get closer to land before scuttling the boat. Can't remember which one it was right now.

Edit:
USS Grenadier (SS-210)
After thirteen hours stuck on the bottom at 270 feet:

I had a Salmon class get the snot knocked out of it off of Okinawa. Batteries back to Midway or Johnston would have put us there in about late 1948/early 1949. :cool: Thus ended that career.

I have never heard of anyone recharging on the surface without diesel engines running. No decent mod would have that.

You have two options depending on which mods you run.

Traveller made some mods and one has an SOS feature. If you run out of fuel or your to damaged to keep going you can send and SOS and you pop back into port with a renown penalty.

Version two ... you start a new campaign.

It wasn't a mod. It was a flaw in the stock game that would very slowly recharge the battery without fuel usage.
It might have existed only in the pre-1.5 versions. It's been a long time since I've seen it mentioned.

Go to the bilge. Grab a rat burger and bilge brew.

:Kaleun_Cheers:

Interesting. Like I said, it's been a while.

Meh. It's just submarines. Accurately modeling the batteries is not worth the time. After all, how often do diesel boats use batteries? :nope:


Sometimes, I miss the old subsims. I think the folks that developed SH4 should have spent a lot of time playing SH1.

what i do cuss like a Marine then start a new game

I really enjoyed this thread. Even got a chuckle or two from it, so thanks, everybody. Although it hasn't happened as of yet, at my age my attention span is sometimes a bit short, and not paying attention to the fuel level will most likely happen, eventually. :D (It comes with age :-? )
I now know what to do about it or at least I have a number of options to chose from. :up:

:)

I agree completely.

It hasn't happened to me yet, either. I did get back with 3% once. That was really cutting it too close.

On my last patrol, I worried about fuel constantly, because the weather was terrible, and made the whole business very uncertain, but in the end I got back with 19%. In such circumstances, it doesn't make sense to cut it close.

It hasn't happened to me at all, I start running for home when fuel levels hit about 40%, gives quite a bit of breathing room.

That being said, if it did happen, I'd probably berate myself for being an idiot. Then curse, a lot. If that career had been going particularly well, I might even cry a little bit...

Then I'd suck it up, kill off that career, and go back to captaining an S-boat or Porpoise in 1941, most likely being sent to the bottom before making any real contribution to the war effort.

Alternatively, load up OM and become the bane of the North Sea in my Type IID dinghy.


Oh, I'm back by the way, hi everyone! :salute:

i ran out about 30 miles from base but had a full battery charge so submerge and coasted it home lesson learn after a contact kick it back down to 1/3 or 2/3 not standard before hitting tc

SH1 had two little markers on the fuel gauge. In SH1 you were teleported to and from your patrol area. The needle was always on the first marker when you started, showing you that the amount of fuel you had used getting there. All you needed to remember was to click the 'Go Home' button before the needle reached the second mark.

That all went out the window if you started at Manila in an 'S' boat. The needle was showing a full tank. I scooted around and did my duty until the needle was just above that lower mark. Hit the button and got told the Philippines had fallen and my base had changed to Surabaya. Of course I didn't have anywhere near enough fuel to get there and my career was over. :dead:

There's one way of knowing when to leave.

After you plotted your course and reached your patrol area hover the mouse over the fuel bar, it will tell you how much you've used up.
You'll need at least that amount of percentages to get home, some times you'll be able to refuel at a friendly port, recalculate form your patrol area to there.

Fictional example:
Start from Pearl, plot a course to Midway and refuel, plot a course to your patrol area and note the number of Nm to it (say 10.000Nm). On arrival, your fuel gauge has dropped to 85%, it took you 15% fuel to get from A to B (A being Midway cause you topped off there).
Bingo fuel is going to be at 15% you think... Think again :O: you'll need to recharge your batteries after each dive and that uses up fuel, add 10% to it and you'll have your Bingo fuel.
You'll probably get more than one patrol area to investigate so after you set course from B to C, D or E..... redo the math each time but keep in mind... don't forget to add 10% for recharging your batteries!

You can also look at it form another angle....
In our fictional example going to our patrol area was 10.000Nm adding 2500Nm for battery recharge made 25% fuel consumption, round trip would be less than 50% fuel consumption (only count battery recharge once!) plenty of room to maneuver as long as you keep calculating form last waypoint (being new patrol area) to home or friendly base no exceeding 12.500Nm.

Also, check distance to friendly ports by plotting a course to it and redo the math again, this is particularly helpful if you get send to a area and you'r wondering if you can make it back home or not.
Side note: most friendly ports will eventually be conquered so take note of the Radio reports, no point in sailing for 5 days to a 'used to be friendly port' if you already got the message 3 day's ago saying Manila is being run over or something like that.

Question: How do I know a friendly port from an enemy port? Is it the ones with the anchors?
I need a port in the Philippines.

Had to return for more "bullets" and fuel before I can go to my next assignment.

Had to cut my trip a little short. It says 19/100 and I'm not there yet.
Kept running into enemy ships that needed sinking. :D

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pict...pictureid=8094

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pict...pictureid=8095

Yes, the anchors are the places where you can refit at, the tilted anchor is your homebase.

_ Quick few question tho, what kind of speed setting do you uses to get from A to B, what speed do you set when patrolling and while I'm at it... what submerged speeds do you use?

I haven't played Stock in a while but by the looks of it you're guzzling fuel, I used to be able to do at least 4 patrols in the area and easily make Pearl without a stop at Midway.

hope you dont get spotted and...
 

Pray to the fuel God.