SH3Commander

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

A side effect of this is when you promote (and maybe give them medals, but taht could affect fatigue only, not sure). If it took an Officer and 5 PO's plus some seamen to get a compartment to 100%, 8 patrols later, that compartment may be at 120% (with no effect on the game). So it might be a good idea to run < 100% early in your career and let the men grow into their jobs. This will allow you to reassign "extra" PO's as you need.

Yep, I'm pretty sure that if you retain all or at least most of your original crew throughout many successful patrols, compartment efficiency will increase even if you leave the same bunch of guys together in each one. Even a guy who doesn't get promoted gains something in the way of experience each time out, so efficiency tends to increase one way or the other (provided you're not having all your more experienced men constantly replaced by n00bs). Just as it would, I imagine, with a real crew that grows accustomed to working together over time.