Damage Control and the player

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by tater

I've repaired some and been able to dive, others i repair and I freefall if I go as deep as PS depth. What I didn't do is actually look at the damage level in the varius cases and see if there was a pattern. It would be nice to know that the damage was so critical that the repair will not take toom much stress. A "get your ass to port" level of damage, even if fixed.

tater

I believe the level of damage is described in the red vertical line. The higher it is the worse it is. Now, bulkheads(hull) that are red and almost completely fill vertical line the should indicate it is really really bad. Repaired, yes, but certainly not like new and in strenght. My recommendation is this, if repaired and no blue showing(flooding) you can dive but not very deep at all. If blue, like mine was and stern down, plan a course home for refit.