[REL] Ship damage from fires

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by TorpX

I know little about modding, but I can tell you what is in the documentation for RFB. The Real Fleet Boat has a damadge model that is based on the flooding of compartments. It often takes quite a while for ships to sink, but not always (there are 'critical hits' sometimes). Shelling a ship, often causes fires, but does not sink them, unless there are a significant number of hits near the waterline. This can seem odd, as it is possible to have raging fires aboard a ship, which means very little. The fires are essentially eye-candy here. I hope this answers part of your question.

Edit- There is also the matter of ships not counting when they 'sink' in shallow water.

Raging fires will cause damage to the vessel. That damage will more than likely cause flooding to occur in the damaged comparments. Now this damage to the compartments will increase over time (due to the fires) and thus the rate of flooding will increase also (theoretically)