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Originally Posted by doulos05
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Re: Patrolling, it sounds like I'm just gonna have to run at like 32x or 64x and set a routine. Sonar sweeps at the bottom of the hour and visual sweeps at the top. Good opportunity to practice crash dives anyway, run my sonar sweeps from 130 ft instead of from 55 ft. Also, since running submerged doesn't expend fuel and batteries are rechargable, that means time spent submerged is semi-free MPGs for your boat, right? I know that recharging the batteries reduces the top speed of the engines, so you pay for it eventually. But do you pay less? Also, I've seen somewhere on here something about choosing not to charge your batteries while running on the surface, how does that work?
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Doule,
If (and as long as) you don't have a radar your sonar is your "scouting instrument" plus your bridge lookouts. And yes that means regular dives and "listening" periods even more so in low visibility conditions. Don't let your crew do all the "listening". They won't report contacts that have a "low signal" or that they consider as "undentified" even if they are fairly loud. I always "listen" the first sweeps myself, go on time comperssion for the next 10-15 minutes (game time), listen again surface and proceed to the next "listening spot".
And in pitch black visibility going on low speed would probably be SOP.
There is no free MPG when you are submerged. It's a loan. You pay it later when surfaced!
Thermodynamics says that energy conversion always carries an entropy cost.
Of course the important thing is what Ubisoft says on the issue!
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In the control room --> bottom screen --> buttons the one next to the Silent Running button. Extremely important as under certain conditions (damage) your battery may not recharge fully at 100% but only reach 99% which means your diesel engines are essentialy at flank speed (trying to recharge batteries) regardles of your boat speed (this is according to post of more experienced guys and it sure seems they knew what they were talking about).
'Αντε και καλά ταξίδια!
PS: When I started answering to doulos I thought I would be the first to respond, then the daughter started to cry, then the wife phoned, then the mother phoned. FAMILY is DESTROYING my POSTING!!!!
Family values blah!!!!!!
What about posting values?
