Awarding medals to crew?

[Gerald]

You'll have to give out the medals with a little sense....in some ways eye candy.

[Torpedo Death]

What impact do the medals have? I gave one sailor a Silver Star, but his stats didn't change.

[razark]

That's pretty much the answer. They serve as decoration only.

[aanker]

For some reason I enjoy passing out Awards & Decorations to my crew, though as has already been said, has little if any effect that I know of : )

Happy Hunting!

[Torpedo Death]

Thanks guys! I agree... It's a fun little bit of immersion

[woodenboat]

Maybe this is also a reflection of real life. I ran my own business for many years and I discovered that good employees did a good job regardless of incentives. They simply took pride in their work and stayed busy all the time.

On the other hand, I found that I could never motivate bad employees with incentives. There were constantly scamming me and my system for what ever advantage they could gain in an effort to do the very least amount of work possible. In fact, there were times when I would make a "deal" with my workers. I would promise more pay or perks if I could get x amount of work more. The good employees would always step up to the challenge but the bad employees would give me one or two days and then fall back into the old patterns, EXCEPT when payday arrived. Then they would demand the higher pay or the promised incentives and pitch an unholy fit if they didn't get them. It always led to trouble. Now that was real life.

Getting back to the sim: I did run one mission here where I had battle damage on the sub that was not getting repaired and we were at battle stations. We had gone to silent running for a brief period but when that crisis was over, we secured from SR. When i went to check I found a bunch of guys sleeping. I wondered if I had been at battle stations too long and I guessed that was it. But I do know that I had not used the time compression since going to battle stations and so, the best I could figure was that the men had been on high alert for about four hours game time. No... wait. No again I didn't use time compression at all. They had been at BS for about an hour.

Maybe this was another case of my lack of a good video card placing more of a heavy load on the computer's main processor. Hmmmm.

I have not had that experience since and so, I honestly don't know.

[ninja turtle]

Originally Posted by woodenboat

Maybe this is also a reflection of real life. I ran my own business for many years and I discovered that good employees did a good job regardless of incentives. They simply took pride in their work and stayed busy all the time.

On the other hand, I found that I could never motivate bad employees with incentives. There were constantly scamming me and my system for what ever advantage they could gain in an effort to do the very least amount of work possible. In fact, there were times when I would make a "deal" with my workers. I would promise more pay or perks if I could get x amount of work more. The good employees would always step up to the challenge but the bad employees would give me one or two days and then fall back into the old patterns, EXCEPT when payday arrived. Then they would demand the higher pay or the promised incentives and pitch an unholy fit if they didn't get them. It always led to trouble. Now that was real life.

Yep. Humans are by nature very lazy IMO. Good, conscientious workers are like gold I have found. I'd also like to add that I consider myself within the 'gold' group.