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Originally Posted by blackness
The explanation: recharging the batteries is an additional energy conversion which makes for a less efficient diesel to distance performance.. Diesel -> Electricity -> Moving The Sub is less efficient than Diesel -> Moving The Sub.
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Yes, of course, the laws of thermodynamics.... Even if that wasn't enough, there's still the fact that while submerged ALL of the sub suffers resistance to movement by water, whereas while surfaced only the lower half of the sub suffers resistance from water (the top suffers wind resistance, but this is nothing compared to water). Being how (for the game) surfaced means diesel and submerged means electrics, then you have yet another argument for NOT using the electrics ever.... the thing is that it isn't at all clear if this is modeled in the game or not (It HAS been known to overlook very important details). You can't really trust the navigator's predictions 100% neither, since several people have caught him making idiotic predictions
To put this matter to rest one would need to actualy test it out, by traveling with both methods, following exactly the same course, with exactly the same weather/sea conditions, with exactly the same crew maning the engines in both ocations, and then comparing results.... but I'm to lazy to do this
Besides, to me it's like a matter of principle, to play realisticaly and use the diesels as much as I can, game behaviour not withstanding