food and supplies while on patrol in sh5?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

Will more elements limit the max duration of your patrol in SH5? (ex: food, water, medical supplies, crew morale, crew wanting to return home after a long period etc)

In SH5, crew morale is the deciding factor; the longer you stay on patrol, the more affected the crew is, and the less you are able to demand that “extra mile” from them. The morale system takes into account many modifiers that represent factors such as the “longing for home”, exhaustion, lack of food, while we chose not to bother the player, the U-Boat captain, with mundane tasks such as managing the food inventory.

I agree with the devs on this one. I'm a captain. Don't bother me with food supply management garbage. That's the quartermaster/navigator's job.

[oscar19681]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I agree with the devs on this one. I'm a captain. Don't bother me with food supply management garbage. That's the quartermaster/navigator's job.

maybe i dont want to be bothered with the food managment but i do wish to know when my crew is starving thus lowering the morale and the effectiveniss of the crew mow dont i

[kptn_kaiserhof]

it would be another element for the mod community to play with

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by oscar19681

maybe i dont want to be bothered with the food managment but i do wish to know when my crew is starving thus lowering the morale and the effectiveniss of the crew mow dont i

Then it appears they've addressed exactly that by having crew morale decrease as time spent on patrol increases.

[Jimbuna]

How about something visual akin to what DivingDuck has created for his open hatch mod.......the food could be closely aligned to fuel consumption and disappear bit by bit, therefore giving the impression it has been eaten.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

How about something visual akin to what DivingDuck has created for his open hatch mod.......the food could be closely aligned to fuel consumption and disappear bit by bit, therefore giving the impression it has been eaten.

no way, i dont want to read a year long thread on how the bananas are curved the wrong way or the grapefruit shouldnt be that color.

realism is nice but i dont want to see the toilet paper in the head either even if it should be seen in real life

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

no way, i dont want to read a year long thread on how the bananas are curved the wrong way or the grapefruit shouldnt be that color.

realism is nice but i dont want to see the toilet paper in the head either even if it should be seen in real life

Exactly. Getting bogged down in these nitpicky little details doesn't do anything to make a better game. Like Mihai said in another thread - it sounds like people don't want a U-boat sim, they want a WORLD sim. People need to realize that developer time is a limited resource. Programming an intricate and detailed food consumption model is just insignificant and a total waste - it does absolutely nothing for the focus of the game. We're seeing comments come from the dev team that they may not even have time to implement big picture strategy aspects like wolfpacks that directly impact the game play experience, and people are whining about wanting food supplies modelled?!

I'm sorry if this is coming off like a rant, but I guess it is. The game is about U-boat combat. Not food supply management. If you want a babysitting or cooking sim, go pick up Cooking Mama or The Sims. I want a WW2 U-boat combat sim. The bananas and hams hanging in the control room in SH3 were as much of a food simulator as I care to see.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Exactly. Getting bogged down in these nitpicky little details doesn't do anything to make a better game. Like Mihai said in another thread - it sounds like people don't want a U-boat sim, they want a WORLD sim. People need to realize that developer time is a limited resource. Programming an intricate and detailed food consumption model is just insignificant and a total waste - it does absolutely nothing for the focus of the game. We're seeing comments come from the dev team that they may not even have time to implement big picture strategy aspects like wolfpacks that directly impact the game play experience, and people are whining about wanting food supplies modelled?!

I'm sorry if this is coming off like a rant, but I guess it is. The game is about U-boat combat. Not food supply management. If you want a babysitting or cooking sim, go pick up Cooking Mama or The Sims. I want a WW2 U-boat combat sim. The bananas and hams hanging in the control room in SH3 were as much of a food simulator as I care to see.

A more polite version of what I'm thinking.

[TwistedFemur]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

no way, i dont want to read a year long thread on how the bananas are curved the wrong way or the grapefruit shouldnt be that color.

realism is nice but i dont want to see the toilet paper in the head either even if it should be seen in real life

or see the mess when bernard clogs the toilet