Help please re: strange situation

Nemo121 · 04-11-09, 06:37 AM

Disclaimer: I'm on my first patrol of SH4 so this may be something really obvious which I'm just not aware of...

I went into Tokyo Bay and have sunk 2 CAs, 3 merchant ships, a tanker and a tug boat in a night. I have decided to get out of dodge and so am running away on the surface. I have fuel and battery power. The problem is i've taken a bit of damage in a gun duel with a merchant vessel and the pressure hull is leaking a little ( mostly in the forward torpedo room ) and a little in the engine room.

NONE of the components of the port and starboard engines or batteries are shown to be damaged in the damage control screen but whenever I try to order a speed or course change the crew says "Cannot comply". When I go to crew management it appears that 90% of my crew ( including damage repair ) is asleep. I can fix that by assigning a few new guys to damage repair.

I thought that I would solve the problem by bottoming out and sitting on the ocean floor resting and repairing throughout the day ( it is about 6 am ) as the ocean is only about 210 feet deep here and my pressure hull is only about 30% damaged BUT when I went down to 210 feet I got a horrendous number of damage messages ( as though I'd crashed into the ocean floor at full tilt ).

So,
1. What am I not realising about my engines and their running? Is it simply that my entire crew is asleep so no-on is awake to run the engines?

2. How on earth can I settle to the sea floor without incurring even more damage?

Oh, I'm using TM 1.7 with RSRD and 85% realism ( Iwanted the external cams etc for fun ).

04-11-09, 06:37 AM	#1
Nemo121 Nub Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Help please re: strange situation Disclaimer: I'm on my first patrol of SH4 so this may be something really obvious which I'm just not aware of... I went into Tokyo Bay and have sunk 2 CAs, 3 merchant ships, a tanker and a tug boat in a night. I have decided to get out of dodge and so am running away on the surface. I have fuel and battery power. The problem is i've taken a bit of damage in a gun duel with a merchant vessel and the pressure hull is leaking a little ( mostly in the forward torpedo room ) and a little in the engine room. NONE of the components of the port and starboard engines or batteries are shown to be damaged in the damage control screen but whenever I try to order a speed or course change the crew says "Cannot comply". When I go to crew management it appears that 90% of my crew ( including damage repair ) is asleep. I can fix that by assigning a few new guys to damage repair. I thought that I would solve the problem by bottoming out and sitting on the ocean floor resting and repairing throughout the day ( it is about 6 am ) as the ocean is only about 210 feet deep here and my pressure hull is only about 30% damaged BUT when I went down to 210 feet I got a horrendous number of damage messages ( as though I'd crashed into the ocean floor at full tilt ). So, 1. What am I not realising about my engines and their running? Is it simply that my entire crew is asleep so no-on is awake to run the engines? 2. How on earth can I settle to the sea floor without incurring even more damage? Oh, I'm using TM 1.7 with RSRD and 85% realism ( Iwanted the external cams etc for fun ).