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Originally Posted by Nangleator
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Whoah. How did you come up with that algorithm? Trial and error over years?
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I came up with that running a couple dozen careers in '42, '43 and 44. Lost half of those boats doing it Almost all to aircaft. Almost all the lost boats were type IXs. Five are still going, The rest retired. Almost all retired boats were type VIIs.
The idea is that your battery discharges slower if you go slower. I never want my battery below 50%, in case I get bounced by a surface ship and need to manoeuver. The discharge rate appears to be a function of the value of your current speed, truncated to an integer, so a speed of 1.9 discharges at the same rate as a speed of 1. (At least that's how my LI seems to have rigged things.)