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Originally Posted by TabbyHunter
Other then the issue with the battery's...Is the Interceptor ready to go? Or how much work would be left to do?
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I'm still testing a few things with the Walter Turbine and I need to get the command room in and working before I release the next beta.
I found something interesting yesterday while messing with the ranges. I set the batteries range to 1500nm at 7.0 knots and then picked a random value for the surface range, 300000nm at 4000 knots. Needless to say that extremely large value let the batteries recharge from 0 to 26 percent in 24 hours at ahead standard.
Also while messing around with the ranges I found that the batteries drain really fast for some reason, and then they won't recharge. I never tested the sub with the batteries after I enabled the Walter turbine. So I set the ranges back to what I had them at and tried to figure out the problem. After long hours of the game ignoring my 150k range and draining the batteries in about 31 miles I gave up. This morning I looked up the Turbine and found some interesting info.
Apparently the Germans used it as a means to achieve faster speed while submerged and it required a lot of fuel to use. So more fuel lead to bigger hulls. So I think the reason the batteries drain so fast and don't recharge in my tests is because there are no batteries. To make space for the amount of fuel needed to run the drive it would make sense to remove the batteries which would free up space. At least that's what I think the game is trying to simulate.
So you either get a choice between batteries or the turbine, you can't have all three, which kind of sucks. I'm still going to play around with the turbine to see what the other limitations are but so far one I found is that you cannot set an actual speed. If the speed you want to set is 15 knots and that speed is achieved at ahead standard, then the turbine will operate at standard propulsion. But if ahead standard maxes out at a speed of 20 knots, then the speed of 15 you selected will be ignored and the sub will continue accelerating until it reaches 20. I have found a work around for this it's just modifying the engine properties in the .cfg file. It's really only to keep the sub at a slow speed while you are targeting an enemy ship.