Was there ever a mod to do this.....
 

I remember when this game came out and we were all excited.. Except we used to always discuss how we were not able to control the engines, individually, or the dive planes..

Was there ever a mod to allow us to have control of these things?

THANKS

No. Nor was there ever a mod that lets us run electrics on the surface.

The engines would be nice, but in real life it was usually only for maneuvering in harbors, as it takes too long to order one engine stopped and reversed to be much use in combat.

The dive planes? Even if the captain sat in one of the seats, he would have to tell the man in the other seat exactly what he wanted. I suppose the captain could say "Bow down five, stern down ten", but that was normally the LI's job. It just wasn't something that the captain did.

Well, I can see the diesels not really needed to work individually, but the electrics? That would be very useful and I wouldn't be surprised if they did that (one forward the other reverse has to help with turning)

As I said, as an aid to maneuvering in a harbor, sure. The problem is that it takes more than a few seconds to give the order, have it transmitted to the engine rooms and actually slow the propellor to a stop and make it start going the other way. If you want to just go in a tight circle forever, no porblem. But if you want to turn hard right as the destroyer is about to pass overhead, by the time the propellor is actually starting to run in reverse you probably want to be heading the other way.

It just doesn't happen fast enough to be a useful combat strategy.

The only thing I would realy desire in this area, would be:

Switch to electrics, as the first action, at the moment I order a dive.

On a positive note, no matter how great my surface speed, my Type IXs will always slow to about 8 knots before beginning to submerge.
(Maybe there is some kind of compromise worked in there?)

I'm quite happy with the knowledge the electrics engage automatically when dive is selected and you have the choice of using both diesels or set one to chaarge the batteries up after you surface.

Ignorance of that on the part of many new players has caused them to report "bugs" such as: "One engine doesn't work; only one propellor is spinning, etc." If I am in a particularly hard pursuit and need every knot of speed, I order standard propulsion upon surfacing, so both diesels are driving the props.

How come the rudder doesn't compensate for the one engine charging the battery?

it does

Me too. I'd just prefer them to engage automatically as the first action of diving.
(Although it ain't perfect, it ain't bad either. It works.)

You need some additional engineer that gets the boat
 

there is always a balance to achieve results.