Just got all my mods pretty and running and had a run with your mod again now that I'm TM1.4.
Everything went pretty well running your test mission. 30 minute sinkings on most things, faster with a 2nd torpedo. AI got a lucky hit when I accidentally left the deck gun on killing a med or large (back center) merchie in only a few rounds. Total devistation sale.
The near left large merchie and the near center small/medium merchie did something weird though. The left near was hit center by a surface torp and leaned over toward the hole after 10-20 min. Looked good so far. It didn't look damaged enough and had stopped sinking so I put a few deck gun rounds into it.. then some more, then some form the far side. Eventually I got a "Unit Destroyed" signal from the game and the game considered it dead but it NEVER SANK. It just stayed there at the original 30 deg list or so looking actually quite healthy despite being legally declared dead.
The center near merchie also took a single torp to the center and settled squarely down into the water, water well above decks. It stayed alive this way for a long long time and then eventually did the ghost death due to a few deck gun rounds. No sinkie.
I was happy with the test except for basically one thing: Merchie's turning into submarines either alive or dead without sinking. Could you adjust the crush depth of a compartment or two so that it crushes/ catestrophically fails at a certain depth? Something has to give once some or all of the hull compartments are below water level.
The more water gets in the faster the ship should sink right? It seems just the opposite in SH4 where they sink to a certain level and stop. Maybe it's a problem with the bridge/superstructure acting as floatation?
Also I found quite a few bow first sinkings tended to bob up and down quite a number of times. 5-6. I know the Titanic did it but it seems silly to have it going up and down like a cork. Any trapped air pressure in the aft compartment would have insane pressures as it was being dragged down with the ship, unlikely to be contained by deck hatches.
Overall a big awesome from me, I realize you're working on an overhaul and wanted to give you a thumbs up and the best info I could to help you along. I'm keeping RSP installed despite the few quirks. A testiment to your work!
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