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TorpX · 04-01-12, 11:33 PM

Once I start getting close to the 50% mark, I check and recheck my fuel (almost obsesively you might say). With RFB, your navigator can give you the range at current speed, which is very helpful. On one patrol I had trouble finding targets and stayed out a long time. When I finally got back to Brisbane, I only had about 3% of my fuel left. That is really cutting it too close, but I had done my math carefully; otherwise I wouldn't have risked it.

The game is pretty generous in many ways, but in case you don't know this already, don't use real-life distances from outside sources for your in-game plans. They won't match up. The in-game charts are based on a "flat-earth" model and are distorted (i.e. stretched).

04-01-12, 11:33 PM	#11
TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	Once I start getting close to the 50% mark, I check and recheck my fuel (almost obsesively you might say). With RFB, your navigator can give you the range at current speed, which is very helpful. On one patrol I had trouble finding targets and stayed out a long time. When I finally got back to Brisbane, I only had about 3% of my fuel left. That is really cutting it too close, but I had done my math carefully; otherwise I wouldn't have risked it. The game is pretty generous in many ways, but in case you don't know this already, don't use real-life distances from outside sources for your in-game plans. They won't match up. The in-game charts are based on a "flat-earth" model and are distorted (i.e. stretched).