[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by jldjs

Just observed that minor damage to numerous pieces of my Gato are not being repaired. Time frame May 23-30, 1943, Eniwitak Marshall Islands. Left Midway earlier after turning down a Balao upgrade continuing with Gato on this patrol. Received damage from an island battery resulting in minor damage (<.02) to bulkheads, diesels, batteries, electric motors, attack periscope head, few others on May 23. Seven days later after sailing mostly surfaced to Caroline’s at battle stations and fully manned damage control section none of the damage indicators (<.02) reduced. Using version 1.26. Usually this minor damage was repaired within hours of surfacing at battle stations. Is this something new with 1.2, or 1.24 or 1.26?

Originally Posted by Gray Lensman

What's really annoying about repairs not starting is when you are being depth charged and you NEED priority repairs RIGHT now. On those rare occasions, I actually save/exit/restart even though I wouldn't normally save while I was submerged. So far I've never had a bad save doing this submerged, but sometimes the escort/destroyer whatever loses contact which one might think was a good thing, but it spoils the immersion.

this must be the topic du jour because i just answered the same question in a different forum.

PB is correct: some repairs that are performed without ending a patrol will NOT restore equipment to working order even though the status board shows them as repaired. the short story is that there is more equipment in use than what is displayed on the status board and it cannot be repaired (or even reported, for that matter)

the only way to know which equipment is affected is to have it happen, go to a repair base for repairs and discover that the equipment is still not usable.

for example, not long ago in TMO, we took some damage to the forward torpedo room and tubes. my valiant crew repaired the damage such that all tubes showed repaired on the status board. then we went back into attack the next ship/convoy only to find out that all six tubes were out of order. so we broke off the attack, sailed to the nearest repair base, refitted/repaired and went back into battle however none of the six tubes would operate. we had to return to home base and end the patrol in order to fully repair the damages.