I won't even get started on how we can have unlimited petty officers and officers, as I've made my case known in other threads. What I would like to see corrected, in the meanwhile, is the starting crew configurations for each boat.
Now, going off the assumption there would be 2 petty officers for every 3 seamen, one can see the ratios we currently have are way off. In the Balao, for instance, we have all petty officers (and one officer
) stacked end to end in the engine rooms, while in the control room there are more POs on duty than there are seamen.
With that said, I'd like to see the crew configs adjusted to look something like this:
-Deck Watch: move officers from conning tower and engine rooms to here, with one per shift. No more than one petty officer per shift.
-Forward Torpedo Room: drop one PO per shift.
-Conning Tower (aka, sensors stations): remove all officers; 1 PO per shift.
-Control Room: 1 officer and on PO per shift.
-Engine Rooms: remove officers; 2 POs per shift.
-After Torpedo Room: 1 PO per shift.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Comments?