Crew Management Questions
 

A few questions:


I have a GATO class sub



1. I have a few candidates I like for their specialties I would add to the crew but the game says I have to many officers. OK got it, I need to replace someone. I may wait if the next class of boat allows for more crew, specifically officers. Does it?

2. I have a few crew that 'devloped' new abilities but require a radio room. I dont have a radio room on the GATO class. Is that a future upgrade of a new class of boat that has a radio room.


3. How valuable is experience. In other words, if I replace a crewmember with a new guy with zero experience, but with a specialty is that worse than keeping the old crew?

in a word, no. if you want to be able to have more officers and/or NCO's (or even more rated petty officers) you will have to learn how to use Notepad and edit the boat-savefile.

in this model, the Conning Tower is the radio room. not historically correct. some mega-mods correct this by adding a radio room. not to worry, just make the mental adjustment and treat the conning tower as the radio room.


experience is less important than rate which adds to skill, although the crew will need the one (experience) to qualify for a higher rate which brings a higher skill. chicken-and-egg conundrum.
skill is also a function of rating. typically a 3/c will have more skill than a seaman, and a 2/c will have more skill that a 3/c and so on.
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Thanks for the answers.


When someone is ranked with a skill, for example watchmen at 80, does that skill move up as the person stays in the shift or just the experience moves?

radar & sonar in conning tower
 

<in this model, the Conning Tower is the radio room. not historically correct. some mega-mods correct this by adding a radio room. not to worry, just make the mental adjustment and treat the conning tower as the radio room.>

There's a 6 man position Conning Tower (Radio Room) on the Crew Management page made up as 3 shifts of 2 men. The 1st position is radar and the 2nd position is sonar for each shift. For what it might be worth to know, if you remove a man while on duty, his radar or sonar figure in the conning tower will be vacant.

Also, there's a mod that allows for more officers and petty officers. It is Crew Rank Fix - Stock - Mod
It should be in the download section.

I try to pick all basic seamen with 100 pts as watchmen, mechanical & electrical. All seamen with less get tossed.

skill changes with rank.
if you have a S1c assigned to the Deck Watch and he has a watchman skill = 80, the only way he will increase that skill is if you promote him to PO 3/c.
that man will not increase his skill level just by completing missions on your boat as a S1c
that is the way the game is designed.