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Originally Posted by Tessa
Or does the game assume that since the captain would've been required to know how to do it also that in the event the navigator died he'd be able to take his place?
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Good question. I do know that when I look at my crew listing in SH3 Commander, it shows the qualifications awarded to each crew member and for the commander it says "ALL."
Now whether this is something that Commander simply adds to the printout for some reason, or whether it reflects the game's having "awarded" every possible qualification to the commander automatically at the start of his career, I don't know. But given that what Commander in general does tell you about your career/crew is either 1) already in the game, 2) being added to the game by Commander, or 3) of no real gameplay value (real ship names, gossip in the nightclub) - I'm gonna say it reflects what's in the game. So I'm thinking that, yes, the game would consider the commander qualified to "take over" for the navigator.
BUT - if you didn't have another officer to put at the vacant station, none of the things that require an officer to be on duty there would happen or get done anyway, even if the commander was fully capable of taking over there. The game won't let him fill that slot to provide full functionality of the station in question.
So I guess if your navigator got killed, and you had to put a less-qualified officer at his station, from that point on you could see it as the commander overseeing the stand-in navigator to make sure his "work" was up to the bare minimum standards required to get home in one piece.
I wonder, though, in RL - say a u-boat's navigation officer was killed on patrol, surely there would have to be someone on board with enough training to take over his duties? In RL navigators were typically petty officers anyway, not commissioned as in the game. Surely there would be someone else trained in that specialty but lower in rank who could fill in, with or without the assistance of a knowledgable commander. AFAIK they didn't go to sea with only one guy who knew how to use the hydrophones, seems like having a navigation backup would be given the same or higher priority.
Actually, not sure now if you're asking about SH3 or 5.
