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Originally Posted by Old Dog
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Originally Posted by Ducimus
Personnaly, i think 47 seconds is accurate for a fast dive on a 9D2.
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I like the new hat Ducimus ! Sorry to see that you're feeling so blue.
Long range sub equals large fuel tanks equals increased flotation to overcome. I imagine that dive times are a moving target. On a long mission, as fuel tanks contain less and less fuel (and more and more air) dive times increase, and that the larger the sub, the longer the time it takes to get the bugger under water. |
Good point! But there's a massive ton of other factors as well - just think of other things like fresh water tanks, or torpedoes, or anything else that basically changes the sub's buoyancy when it leaves the boat. Don't forget the infamous "all hands forward"! (though there's debate if that's really something that happened, given the relatively negligible weight of the crew). There's all sorts of complicated factors that SH4 doesn't really factor in. I really wish the sub's physics model accounted for ballast in a less generic way than it does. It'd really improve the feel of its performance.
But we only have to work with abstracted factors!