My career ended too soon? And problems ...
 

My career (Peter Lenke) has ended too soon! :hmmm:

However, via SH3 Commander I can continue with a new Commander. :arrgh!:

SPEED PROBLEM (DURING MY LAST PATROL) SEE IMAGE BELOW:

View the (full) speed and look bottom left 5 knots? North Sea VIIB rough sea.

Question 1: is this a bug or normal? It was impossible to go any faster than 5 knots at maximum speed?

NEXT IMAGE, EVERYTIME PROBLEMS WITH COMPRESSED AIR:

Here is an image so you are able to see the compressed air. I submerged for only a couple of minutes and surfaced to see if compressed air has been changed.

I did not do anything (did not use blow ballast) ... can somebody explain me why the compressed air has been changed?

Thanks!

:salute:

do you have the "malfunctions and sabotage" option in SH3 Commander checked?

if so that will explain a lot of your problems.

also, if you select "use realistic career length" your commander will be retired after a random number of patrols

Thanks Golden :up:, yes I have the "malfunctions and sabotage" option activated. But I thought that I could repair (during a patrol) certain malfunctions. Thanks to you, I now understand that your crew cannot repair these.

Indeed "realistic career length" is also what I am using, but I did not know that my career would end soooo soon! It's June 1940.

Now I am wondering if more sub-simmers use the "malfunctions and sabotage" option and "realistic career length"?

Furthermore, my Kapitänleutnant did not retired, he went to Kiel for another job at the Kriegsmarine (that was the SH3 Commander message) LOL!

Thanks again for teaching me this specific lesson! :know:

Grey sinked ship?
 

Another question ...

See image below, on the same patrol (North Sea) I saw on my map a grey sinked ship. I was not in that area.

There were a lot of allied warships, did the Luftwaffe sinked the grey ship on my map? I cannot imagine that, because of the bad weather. There were allied planes that could not see me too.

Thanks again! :yep:

Due to the fact your exploits as a Kaleun preceed you it scuttled to save itself from your wrath :DL

Tis a ship that has sunk for whatever reason, weather, mine, aircraft, whilst in rendering range but not as a direct result of your intervention.

:salute: Meduza! (Stupid me! I meant JIMBUNA)

I have seen a similar ship (armed trawler) near the Dutch coast as well. This ship was quite far away and I submerged my boat. Same patrol ...

The armed trawler was searching for me ... I could see the hydrophone lines on my map and a couple of hours later this vessel also was grey ... so I surfaced! :up:

What the hell did sunk this armed vessel near the Dutch coast line on 1 June 1940?

1. Rough weahther ... no I don't think so.
2. Mines near the Dutch coast (Den Helder) ... no in my honest opinion.
3. Maybe a German warship (but I did not hear any other ship) ... no again.
4. It must be the Luftwaffe, but also rather impossible with bad weather.

This is "hocus pocus" to me ... if this is correct English language too?

Mysterious ... and ghosty last patrol for Peter Lenke! LOL :arrgh!:

p.s. I am getting older and my mind is not always working 100%, sorry for the name mistake! :yep:

No, you can't repair them, but if you save and exit they will be repaired when you reload.

It's based partly on how many patrols you have completed. I think the random factor starts after six patrols, but you might get twice that before being retired from active duty. You can also 'unretire'.

I use 'Realistic Career Length' and 'Malfunctions', but not 'Sabotage'. Maybe if I ever have a career last long enough that I get based in France...

He retired from active sea duty, but not from the KM itself.

Perfect English, actually. Yes, one of the problems with SH3 is ships sinking from bad weather. It happens quite a lot.

Thanks Steve! :yep:

Everything makes more sense to me.

But what is the difference between:

1) Malfunctions.
2) Sabotage.

Hmmm .... "sabotage", I always think of a crew member that is a spy! (OKAY I KNOW ME DUMMY) :rotfl:

Malfunctions: Little things go wrong, sometimes.

Sabotage: Some of the dock crews are with the French underground, and make big things go wrong.

I'm not sure of all the differences, just that Sabotage happens more often and the problems are worse.

Ahhh ... OK! Thanks Professor Steve :know:

But sabotage in my specific case in May, June 1940 (Wilhelmshaven) and French underground would not be correct. The problems that I had must be malfunctions ... however, these were quite big.

Compressed air problems, speed problems and probably more. Also TC didn't work good. I could use max. 8 TC!

So for the first time I ever played, I saved and dock at Wilhelmshaven, because of the TC problem and no torpedoes left anymore.

Until now (I play SH3 for a couple of months), I never could reach for example, the year 1942!

That's one of the problems: it doesn't distinguish dates or locations. If you have sabotage enabled it can happen anytime, anywhere.

could have been a sympathizer for the allies?

but like steve said it doesnt detect date or base... all it sees is that you have checked the sabotage box and it applies the sabotage randomly.

as far as what sank your mystery ship...

could have been weather if the weather is severe enough and the ship small enough.

any time the sinking icon is grey, the ship basically sank for some uncredited reason that had nothing to do with you.

I'll get it now. My brains are working again :up:

FYI

Don't forget that I am a heart patient since 1984 and my by-passes are now 20 years old and clogged again (open heart operation on 2 August 1989). And still too much medications.

For me, subsim.com is a great place to be. I lie in bed with my laptop and it's a perfect alternative if you cannot do anything more in life.

Thanks guys! :yep: It is 100% true.

LOL no problem mate :DL

You look after yourself matey http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

@Jim, I am lucky, my wife takes good care of me! But I still live by the day. And I am very happy that I found SH3 and subsim.com ... plus all those wonderful people around here! :yeah: