Flooding & Damage Control - Small story & questions

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Originally Posted by rb4door

What is the little piston looking thing with a timer counting down? is this the time required to "stop" the flooding?
Also what is the little grey box with the X in it? it also has a timer on it - i'm not sure what it signifies.

Those show the time it will take to stop flooding and the time you will die if you don't.

You'll notice that as your men work the X timer will go up, as the more you pump out the more time it will take for critical flooding.


I hadn't played in a long time until recently, and I had something happen like you are describing. Not sure if it's the same, but it sounds much like it.
What happened was I would save the ship from the critical flooding (ei: stop the X timer from it's death countdown) and then move on to other repairs.
It wasn't for awhile, and repeated sinking like you described, that I realized there was more info in the flooded department.

Clicking on the little icon in the bottom right of the department info panel (not the department itself where you saw the piston and X, but the box where it lists the info of the highlighted department) rises the text, and I finally did that and saw another timer.
I'd stopped the critical flooding, but hadn't pumped out the entire department. Thus the sinking. Once I did that I had full control again.

May or may not be what happened to you. But it's my guess it is.