battery recharge times

mookiemookie · 03-22-10, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

You don't get it. Those skills (though badly presented) ARE how to alter battery recharge times to historical specs.

The adjustment for batteries doesn't exist any other way like it did in SH3 that i'm aware of.

I guess we just make the decreased battery recharge time an "always on" skill that you get from the start and remove it from the player's view?

SteamWake · 03-22-10, 06:53 PM

Pour some soup on those batteries.. it's highly conductive you know

Ducimus · 03-22-10, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I guess we just make the decreased battery recharge time an "always on" skill that you get from the start and remove it from the player's view?

Something like that.

Frederf · 03-22-10, 07:10 PM

If you travel at ahead flank batteries will charge very slowly due to very little power "left over" to run the dynamo. Charging while going 5 knots, for example, is faster.

Onkel Neal · 03-22-10, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

Something like that.

I see what you're saying, tweak the abilities to affect things but in a realistic fashion, or not at all. Is that it?

Heretic · 03-22-10, 10:08 PM

I've been thinking reworked abilities should have the historical performance at the higher end to represent a green crew learning to use the equipment to its fullest potential. A green crew would be worse at operating and maintaining the equipment, so it wouldn't perform as good as it would under a seasoned crew. The sequential 'bonuses' would actually be decreasing negatives.

Ducimus · 03-22-10, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I see what you're saying, tweak the abilities to affect things but in a realistic fashion, or not at all. Is that it?

Yeah. Granted i haven't looked at the file, though i strongly suspect i know what's there. Somewhere, (in /data/GEUPCData/UPCCrewdata/abilities.upc im guessing) they'll be a portion specifying exactly what the skill will do. Change those. I think you can change it to where its a stepped skill (IE mutliple levels),or a passive one, etc.

The best example i can give on how you can alter this to make it more realistic is from SH4. UBM is what introduced super crew skills to Silent Hunter. Some you can rework to be more realistc, others you can't.

Engine experts is my favorite.
See pic:
http://www.ducimus.net/sh415/engine_experts.jpg

Engine experts did two things.
- increased maximum speed (a 25 kt fleet boat.. yeah right!)
- decreased dive time.

To make that more realistc, i completely dropped the maximum speed portion of that skill, and retained only the decreased dive time, whose value i was able to adjust. I adjust it so that with 2 or 3 of them, you could make a fleet boat that crash dived from 60 seconds, decrease in time to 35 seconds. This happened in real life - with an experienced crew. Hence what the skills were reworked to represent.

Battery recharge is a bit more of a static issue though. Battery X took Y long, so the realistc presentation might be a bit more tricky.

I'm sure some bright fella will figure it out. I'm merely point out that not all is lost, or unworkable.

03-22-10, 06:53 PM	#2
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03-22-10, 07:10 PM	#4
Frederf Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 665 Downloads: 79 Uploads: 1	If you travel at ahead flank batteries will charge very slowly due to very little power "left over" to run the dynamo. Charging while going 5 knots, for example, is faster.