Local ability? What's that about?
 

I was looking over my crew after a patrol last night and noticed a third proficiency symbol, in a dark red. Curious as to what it was, I hovered over it. The pop-up was "Local ability - Increased torpedo damage". Huh? Is that so? So I looked over my entire crew and found a few more, increased surface speed, reduced chance of breakdown, faster speed submerged and so on. So I guess my question is thus, are these bonuses working or bugged? And what moron came up with this brilliant idea of giving magical bonuses to make your sub go faster and torpedoes hit harder? :doh:

No answers for you, but I've noticed the same thing. Most of them are good, like increased torpedo speed or increased submerged speed. I would assume that the idea behind this is that someone who was really really good at what they did could improve various areas of ship performance. I would also assume these are good because their icons are colored green.

On a scarier, stranger note, I noticed one of my watch officers had a red command icon that said "Global Ability: Increased Fanatical Chance." What in the world does that mean, and is it a bad thing? If so, as soon as I get back to Brisbane, he's getting dismissed.

"I noticed one of my watch officers had a red command icon that said "Global Ability: Increased Fanatical Chance."


That sounds like he's gonna talk some of your crew into mutiny.:down: Which is pretty amazing, that the devs would go to that much detail in the characters on our boats, but that hasn't happened, I'm pretty sure, on a USNAVY ship since before the civil war....haven't been lucky enough to see any of these icons/abilities yet myself...:ping:

Calm Seas.

Hey.. I got promoted!! I was a Bilge Rat, Now I'm a NUB! ...what's a nub?

j/k

you:p :D

i'm guessing it's all for increasing your crews abilities in their respective departments, rather than having an effect on the sub/torpedo itself

If I have "increased torpedo speed," isn't that going to mess up my solutions? The torpedo will be at the intercept point before the target will! Or is the game smart enough to know this? (I somehow doubt it)

I am guessing it means increased torpedo speed loading .

I'm curious about the coverage of these abilities. For instance an Engine ability would work if say a Torpedoman had it? After all it does say Global ability but.... I don't know.

The exact effects would also be nice to know, but I haven't found a clue about this anywhere.

OK . . . the Abilities . . . this has been covered before.

Local Abilities . . . only apply when the individual is in the leadership slot . . . and only for that section. Of course when the crewmember is not on duty it doesn't apply.

Global Abilities work the same way . . . but for the entire ship. The individual needs to be in a leadership slot as well, as I understand it.

Hey its all covered in the manual in detail....

Opening manual....

Oh wait its in the read me file.....

Opening readme ......

Uhhh ohhh never mind.

Yes, I think this is it.


RDP

But can someone tell me what "Increased Fanatical Chance" means?

I am not sure the use of the term "moron" is appropriate (at least not here), but why would you think that a feature that mimics the real world ability of people to learn and develop special skills that improve their performance is problematic?


- Increased Torpedo Damage = More thorough maintainence on torpedos.

- Reduced Chance of breakdown = Better maintainence of deisel engines.

- Increased submerged speed = Better maintainence on the motors.


All of these things happened in real life.

Plus before you go throwing around terms like that you might want to be sure that you understand the feature correctly.

JCC

There has never been a mutiny on a US Naval Vessel.

A NUB is Submarinese for "Non Useful Body" and applies to any serving crew member that has not yet completed their qualifications and earned their Dolphins.

JCC

Edit Deleted by myself

Fanatical in this matter means the person that gets that, will increase the efficiency of crewmembers around him. They are fanatical at the work and the performance that is required from them. They are the few, the proud.....