Rookie Kapitan Cannot Manage Crew

SurfnSea3 · 03-25-18, 07:40 PM

Before they mutiny I need to figure out how to:
1. Manage crew.
Pressing G does not call up screen. Indeed the icons I should have in the upper right of my screen are not showing while the icons for map etc. in the lower left do show.
2. No watch crew on bridge with me while surfaced.

I've done some searching on the forums but have not found the solution yet. So any help is appreciated. I do have experience with Silent Hunter 3 & 4. In fact I first came to SubSim back in the Silent Hunter 2 days. So i'm not a total newbie. However my crew apparently is not impressed. Besides the brig is not big enough for those who refuse to do their job...that is if I can figure out how to get them to do their job and figure out how to throw someone into the brig.
My SH5 install is a Steam install.

Thanks in advance.

XenonSurf · 03-26-18, 04:13 PM

Hi SurfnSea3,
I'm not pleased to reveal it to you, but in SH5 there is pretty nothing to do to 'manage' your crew. What you can do is distribute them more points for their capabilities (I don't recall the shortcut, I think it's I). You earn these points by succeeding missions.
Also if your sub is in big trouble like flooding, the only thing you can do is talk to the engineer to speed-up repairs and set the crew to Battlestations Level 2 (for that you need to play TWoS and talk to the Watch Officer). Don't forget to revert these orders else the crew will stay on alert and be less effective elsewhere.
For torpedos, there is a "Pre-heat" order to give to the torpedo man, but you need to travel all the way to him to give this order.
AFAIK, that's pretty it for crew management.
If you miss crew management a lot then I advice you to play SH3/SH4 instead, there is much more to it.

For the Watch Crew not on the bridge: Do not ALT-TAB out of the game, else you will screw it up, instead save/ALT-TAB out/reload game.

SurfnSea3 · 03-27-18, 08:03 AM

Thank you very much for the reply. That helps. Once I feel I know SH5 well enough I'll add the Wolves of Steel mod and give that a go.

XenonSurf · 03-27-18, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by SurfnSea3

Thank you very much for the reply. That helps. Once I feel I know SH5 well enough I'll add the Wolves of Steel mod and give that a go.

Go on playing, but I must warn you that the stock game has a lot of shortcommings, especially the torpedo handling and mission system.
TWoS improves the game in all aspects (hundreds of fixes and add-ons), so IMHO it's worth loading this mod immediately.

If things do not work (stock game), then I advice you not losing much time to 'understand' what's wrong, that's futile. The general picture is: the stock game is very arcadish; TWoS turns the game in a realistic experience with almost no bugs, or none I'm aware of.
The downside of TWoS is: the gameplay is not easy and there are a lot of 'special instructions' to follow in order to make the mod and game work ok, so when you are ready for it you need to read the instructions and follow them 'to the letter'.

skin-nl · 03-27-18, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by XenonSurf

there are a lot of 'special instructions' to follow in order to make the mod and game work ok'.

With Vecko's new installer it's pretty easy

XenonSurf · 03-27-18, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by skin-nl

With Vecko's new installer it's pretty easy

Yes, very easy now, but that's not what I meant, what I meant to say is that *playing* TWoS is not a piece of cake...Surely not for everyone, and surely not without re-reading all the instructions in the TWoS thread (see mod forum > TWoS thread > Gameplay Tips).

03-25-18, 07:40 PM	#1
SurfnSea3 Watch Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Western Colorado Posts: 15 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Rookie Kapitan Cannot Manage Crew Before they mutiny I need to figure out how to: 1. Manage crew. Pressing G does not call up screen. Indeed the icons I should have in the upper right of my screen are not showing while the icons for map etc. in the lower left do show. 2. No watch crew on bridge with me while surfaced. I've done some searching on the forums but have not found the solution yet. So any help is appreciated. I do have experience with Silent Hunter 3 & 4. In fact I first came to SubSim back in the Silent Hunter 2 days. So i'm not a total newbie. However my crew apparently is not impressed. Besides the brig is not big enough for those who refuse to do their job...that is if I can figure out how to get them to do their job and figure out how to throw someone into the brig. My SH5 install is a Steam install. Thanks in advance.

03-26-18, 04:13 PM	#2
XenonSurf Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Germany, Italy Posts: 1,721 Downloads: 107 Uploads: 4	Hi SurfnSea3, I'm not pleased to reveal it to you, but in SH5 there is pretty nothing to do to 'manage' your crew. What you can do is distribute them more points for their capabilities (I don't recall the shortcut, I think it's I). You earn these points by succeeding missions. Also if your sub is in big trouble like flooding, the only thing you can do is talk to the engineer to speed-up repairs and set the crew to Battlestations Level 2 (for that you need to play TWoS and talk to the Watch Officer). Don't forget to revert these orders else the crew will stay on alert and be less effective elsewhere. For torpedos, there is a "Pre-heat" order to give to the torpedo man, but you need to travel all the way to him to give this order. AFAIK, that's pretty it for crew management. If you miss crew management a lot then I advice you to play SH3/SH4 instead, there is much more to it. For the Watch Crew not on the bridge: Do not ALT-TAB out of the game, else you will screw it up, instead save/ALT-TAB out/reload game. Last edited by XenonSurf; 03-26-18 at 04:28 PM.

03-27-18, 08:03 AM	#3
SurfnSea3 Watch Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Western Colorado Posts: 15 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Thank you very much for the reply. That helps. Once I feel I know SH5 well enough I'll add the Wolves of Steel mod and give that a go.