I wanna rest my boat on the bottom...

pythos · 04-15-08, 09:19 PM

without exploding.

There are times that I want to rest the boat on the bottom of the body of water in which it sits. Such as when waiting for sundown to make a stealthy escape from an enemy bay. But more importantly, I would like the boat to to rest on the bottom without inflicting more damage upon itself following a horrendous depth charging, Ala Das Boot in the Straight of Gibraltar.

But for some reason it was programed for the boat to take on huge amounts of damge if it touches the bottom at all. I understand the boat taking impact damage, but I don't get the taking damage when the boat is very slowly lowered to the bottom.

Is there a way of eliminating this oversight? I would like to have a scenerio like that in Das Boot, and what really happened during the war for all sides. There are numberous accounts of boats laying on the bottom while waiting or effecting repairs, but the way the game is set up, you touch bottom, you're screwed.

Another thing I was thinking of is eliminating the "death" screen unless the boat is crushed by exceeding the crush depth. Right now it is done if your hull drops below the percentage limit. How about if the boat is stuck on the bottom, let us determine when we are truly screwed, instead of the game kicking over to "death" screen.

If the boat is on the bottom, and all compartments are completly filled and the crew is drowning, then that would be the point I would say My boat is dead.

But if it is on the bottom and the hull is at 50%, but one compartment floods completly, I would like to TRY to save the boat and crew and crawl back to base.

Granted this is not really realistic, but neither is the constant pinging the escorts do

Anyone have ideas for these?

04-15-08, 09:19 PM	#1
pythos Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2005 Location: Somewhere over there Posts: 834 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	I wanna rest my boat on the bottom... without exploding. There are times that I want to rest the boat on the bottom of the body of water in which it sits. Such as when waiting for sundown to make a stealthy escape from an enemy bay. But more importantly, I would like the boat to to rest on the bottom without inflicting more damage upon itself following a horrendous depth charging, Ala Das Boot in the Straight of Gibraltar. But for some reason it was programed for the boat to take on huge amounts of damge if it touches the bottom at all. I understand the boat taking impact damage, but I don't get the taking damage when the boat is very slowly lowered to the bottom. Is there a way of eliminating this oversight? I would like to have a scenerio like that in Das Boot, and what really happened during the war for all sides. There are numberous accounts of boats laying on the bottom while waiting or effecting repairs, but the way the game is set up, you touch bottom, you're screwed. Another thing I was thinking of is eliminating the "death" screen unless the boat is crushed by exceeding the crush depth. Right now it is done if your hull drops below the percentage limit. How about if the boat is stuck on the bottom, let us determine when we are truly screwed, instead of the game kicking over to "death" screen. If the boat is on the bottom, and all compartments are completly filled and the crew is drowning, then that would be the point I would say My boat is dead. But if it is on the bottom and the hull is at 50%, but one compartment floods completly, I would like to TRY to save the boat and crew and crawl back to base. Granted this is not really realistic, but neither is the constant pinging the escorts do Anyone have ideas for these?