Time Warps n Stuff

[Moeceefus]

travel submerged in enemy territory and make sure that travel mode that ignores warnings is not ticked. careful about your engine noise as well

[kylania]

The first thing to do is Save Early, Save Often.

After you sink the tanker, SAVE.
After you're out of the Kiel Canal, SAVE.

Basically save once you've done anything you don't wanna do again.

Also, don't use super high TC when there might be ships around. Middle of North Sea? It's Ok to try 3000x TC. English Channel? Don't go above 512x TC. Exiting Kiel Canal, try to stay below 128x TC. Open Atlantic? 8192x if you can handle it, just remember you can still hit things! heh

I basically never go higher than 512, except for the long open ocean trips at 2048x maybe. But again, save before you do that.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by kylania

The first thing to do is Save Early, Save Often.

After you sink the tanker, SAVE.
After you're out of the Kiel Canal, SAVE.

Basically save once you've done anything you don't wanna do again.

Also, don't use super high TC when there might be ships around. Middle of North Sea? It's Ok to try 3000x TC. English Channel? Don't go above 512x TC. Exiting Kiel Canal, try to stay below 128x TC. Open Atlantic? 8192x if you can handle it, just remember you can still hit things! heh

I basically never go higher than 512, except for the long open ocean trips at 2048x maybe. But again, save before you do that.

Edit: SS beat me to it, welcome to SUBSIM

[Zygote]

Originally Posted by Moeceefus

travel submerged in enemy territory and make sure that travel mode that ignores warnings is not ticked. careful about your engine noise as well

Doesn't really work though. You can't be submerged when your recharging batteries and its not realistic to charge them in real time.

Was hoping I had something set up wrong and there was some option to set the watch to report visuals a bit sooner then right about when they're carving a new door in my pressure hull

[kylania]

If you travel underwater at Ahead Slow (speed 1) you won't use a lot of battery power and can easily remain under all day long. You won't get far since you're traveling at 1-2kts, but you can stay under for like a day. Anything faster and your recharging will take forever. Also recharge while going at a slower speed. At "speed 2" with a VIIB you'll go at 10kts, have fuel forever and recharge pretty quickly. Once recharged you'll speed up to 11kts. At faster speeds you'll lose more speed while recharging and recharging will be slower.

Also remember even though your CO2 alarm starts to go off at 10%, nothing will happen till 100%. At which time you'll all die. So remember, save!