[U-Bones]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Beacuse it's NOT a duty station, but rather one that's manned only in an emergency. Do you really think submarines had a 10-man team dedicated to nothing but damage repair? NO! Damage control should work like it does in SH3: you pull ten of your best guys from their regular duty stations and put them to work. It IS an exploit in its current form here in SH4.

Ok, duty assignment... station was a bad choice of words, even if I made it clear I was not talking about a location. And you are equally wrong in your inplication that it is a station that is physically "manned". DC goes where the damage is, when there is damage.

I understand that it upsets some that they do nothing else, but remember the whole thing is a very simple virtualization of how jobs get done. It's not like every task on the sub is accounted for here or that it takes exactly so many people to keep that diesel humming...

If it makes you feel better, I leave 6 of my torp room slots empty and pull folks off DC duty to reload fish. I understand what you are saying, but getting the job done here does not mirror reality and I dont get hung up on it. Its more important to have the DC crew assigned for fast reaction than the torpedo room full. I will lose the 30 seconds on reloads, but 30 seconds on DC can be a disaster. Which would a captain give priority to ? Would the DC party balk at leaving their "day jobs" when there is damage ?

This is a GAME issue that you play through. The SIM issue is that the sim falls short of reality with duty assignments, why should I let that impose stupid priorities on my game decisions ?

DC is high priority. Why would I roleplay not assigning anyone to DC and placing my ship and crew in mortal danger ? Essientially that is what you do if you declare this an exploit.

So accept and mitigate the imposed limitations or call it an exploit as it suits you, but this really makes me laugh.