You don't even have to have any current damage. If at any point you suffered battery damage, even if it's been repaired, the boat may not automatically switch recharging off when the battery fills up. This makes you use a LOT more fuel than normal. It happened to me once, I left the East China Sea with 55% diesel remaining to return to Midway, and ran out of fuel about 1500 miles east of Tokyo, even using all the tricks I could to stretch the fuel. It turns out the battery was the problem, because I reloaded an earlier save and confirmed it. I had to manually switch recharging off every time.
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We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
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