Shift changes are 4 hours not 8 and change at fixed times during the 24 hour period within 11 minutes of the hour.
Some hints:
Use Battle Stations and Repair Crew commands only when necessary.
While in base, use your renoun to purchase extra crew with high skills in mechanical/electrical for the Damage Control and repairs will go better (it will never be perfect- some things cannot be repaired.) Also use that opportunity to slowly replace weakest crew
Only compartments/equipment manned with normal active crew gets repaired. The Damage control party boosts repair, but active crew assigned to a station are necessary.
Place crew with highest leadership skills in 1st (larger icon) slot in each compartment.
Inspect your crew once in a while. You can make them better by resting them when they need it or rotating the members of the shifts.
Tweak the initial assignment the computer gives you which is not the best. By shifting crew around, you can better balance the talent between shifts so you don't have a consistantly weak crew at the same time every day. Use the status bars to see when you have improved them or not.
Do not patrol on the surface for extended period in weather where the water flows over the bridge. This tires out the crew.
Keep wounded crew off duty. Better yet, don't let them get wounded.
There are two ways to rest crew:
1) Drag them foward one step in the watch sequence (from I to II, II to III, III to I, etc.) The next crew in sequence after active (dark grey) is the one that sleeps. If individuals get too tired, the computer will force them to rest. It is good to avoid this as a sleeping crew in an active watch weakens the watch.
2) Drag a crew member sideways in an inactive watch. Note, this may force two crew to sleep if they are tired enough. If they are not tired enough, you cannot force them to sleep.
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