Cruise Speed

[U-Bones]

Originally Posted by Rose

Haha I'm not sure how many times this has been asked -- but its been alot. Let me give it a go. For very long cruises I want to have the opportunity to make my patrol as long as possible to give me time and distance to intercept long range targets, get home if damaged, etc. So I like to go Ahead Slow at PD from sunrise till midnight. At 0000 hours, I surface to charge batts and reload fish, etc. I dive again at dawn, about 0600 hours. This tactic saves me alot of precious fuel. I'm pretty sure its realistic too, though I wouldn't bet my lifes savings on it.

For shorter Type II North Sea cruises, I use Ahead Standard and 1/3.

You are wise in your betting, and dead on with the ahead slow, but the submerged thing: you would need to max surface time for realistic mileage miser mode.

If this were realistic, everyone would be running generators to charge the batteries their cars run on. Unfortunately, energy is -always- lost when you convert from one form to another.

In game though, it IS more efficient