Crew Morale = Crew Performance

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Originally Posted by Donkey-Shot11

My question to people on this forum is: are there any other (ex) sailors, fishermen or navy men around here? Have you had simular expercience as far as morale is concerned? And for any (ex) military guys out there, how would a drop of morale effect the performance of your unit/vessel?

A little late here, but like Steve said, you haven't seen low morale until you have poor leadership that doesn't take care of it's people. At the same time, I haven't really seen the routine of deployment affect performance much, people just develop their own hidey-holes to get away from it all and use that to manage things. In my own estimation, fatigue was a bigger factor, measured in days from the last liberty port. You could try to mitigate it with any number of things, but bottom line was that at some point people needed to unwind. But poor leadership is a killer and if a boat sucks as a whole, just look at the chain of command.

And having relevant operational missions pulled from you. I don't know if it was just my experience but nothing felt quite like getting up for a big game and then finding out it was cancelled. If it happened more than once people started to adopt a "they are just going to cancel it/retask us so why should we give a ****?"

Not really the best attitude to have and it didn't happen all at once but it happened.

As far as it's relation to SH5, I imagine consistently missing targets while still managing to get beat to hell by depth charges would rather quickly fall under the poor leadership. Or the super-long, thrice extended patrols some players are fond of running degrading performance; less a morale issue and more an acknowledgement that running around working nineteen hours a day on two to four hours of sleep is exhausting.