No turtles?

[AgentToreno]

Originally Posted by schlechter pfennig

Could be much worse: at least the game permits you to dive even if you're in the middle of transferring an external torpedo inside. Imagine the absolute fun it would be if you spotted an airplane but couldn't dive at all (like it really was like) until you'd finished the transfer!

That sounds like a cool modification to try. Can dive commands be delayed or disabled temporarily when certain actions are in progress, like transferring torps?

Originally Posted by AgentToreno

That sounds like a cool modification to try. Can dive commands be delayed or disabled temporarily when certain actions are in progress, like transferring torps?

Maybe through modification to the statemachine controllers stuff?

[schlechter pfennig]

Originally Posted by AgentToreno

That sounds like a cool modification to try. Can dive commands be delayed or disabled temporarily when certain actions are in progress, like transferring torps?

Originally Posted by privateer

Maybe through modification to the statemachine controllers stuff?

Now if we could also control only being able to transfer torpedos when you're at dead stop and the weather is 7mps or less . . . I already do that myself: I only transfer when I'm at dead stop and the weather is calm. But, erm . . . I have to admit I've dove when in the middle of transferring. Never occurred to me before that a U-boat wasn't able to do so. Owell, from now on I'll make sure to be even more careful when transferring.

[sergei]

Like others here I only transfer all all stop in calm weather.
Never been caught during a transfer.

What do others do if caught on the surface in the middle of a transfer?

Stay on the surface and fight it out?
Or dive, then later eject the torpedo, on the basis that you'd abandoned it during the panic?

[schlechter pfennig]

Originally Posted by sergei

Like others here I only transfer all all stop in calm weather.
Never been caught during a transfer.

What do others do if caught on the surface in the middle of a transfer?

Stay on the surface and fight it out?
Or dive, then later eject the torpedo, on the basis that you'd abandoned it during the panic?

Well, although I've never transferred except in calm weather and all stop, I have dove on the rare occasion I've been spotted. But not after 2 weeks ago, when I'd done some reading and learned that it was impossible for a U-boat to dive once they'd started until they'd finished.

Once I'd read that and took a moment or two to consider things that made dreadfully obvious sense. The only way to get the torpedo inside, after all, is to open up the forward (or aft) loading hatch to inside, and if the torpedo's half-in half-out, well . . . doesn't make for a very water-tight pressure hull.

So, since I'd read that, I've chosen to no longer dive, no matter what. Makes choosing when/where/how I transfer a lot more, hmmmm . . . tactical. And also makes me highly desirous of having more flak guns and very motivated flak gunners!