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09-25-13, 02:28 AM

Greetings, captains.
Played in SH3 long ago, and looks like now is coming another underwater cycle for me.

After trying many mods, reading tons of manuals and hints about this great game, i still got a question without an answer. Sorry if this question was already discussed - with my poor English it is really hard to find something specific in the thread.
So, one thing in SH3 was remaining a mystery for me for all these years: how exactly works the registration of the fact of sinking the ship? Is getting the "She's going down!" message from one of officers the only way to ensure that ship will be counted in score? If so, this is very sad, because i was seen many game situations when keeping periscope depth and periscope above the surface just to get "She's going down!" message can be very dangerous for the boat. With GWX flooding damage model, most ships which got a torpedo in their belly will slow sink, and sometimes time between torpedo strike and "She's going down!" can be 30 or more minutes of game time. in the same time, UBoat that runs on the periscope depth for a 30 minutes after attack is almost surely dead one.
So, keeping in mind that i'm doing something wrong, i'd like to ask experiensed captains: if my boat will dive into the deep to avoid escorts' attacks immediately after firing torpedoes, will the victims of my attack (if any) be scored if i'll not see they're sinking? And is there a right way to ensure scoring attacked ships without risk of keeping visual contact with target?

09-25-13, 02:28 AM	#10
Theurg Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Greetings, captains. Played in SH3 long ago, and looks like now is coming another underwater cycle for me. After trying many mods, reading tons of manuals and hints about this great game, i still got a question without an answer. Sorry if this question was already discussed - with my poor English it is really hard to find something specific in the thread. So, one thing in SH3 was remaining a mystery for me for all these years: how exactly works the registration of the fact of sinking the ship? Is getting the "She's going down!" message from one of officers the only way to ensure that ship will be counted in score? If so, this is very sad, because i was seen many game situations when keeping periscope depth and periscope above the surface just to get "She's going down!" message can be very dangerous for the boat. With GWX flooding damage model, most ships which got a torpedo in their belly will slow sink, and sometimes time between torpedo strike and "She's going down!" can be 30 or more minutes of game time. in the same time, UBoat that runs on the periscope depth for a 30 minutes after attack is almost surely dead one. So, keeping in mind that i'm doing something wrong, i'd like to ask experiensed captains: if my boat will dive into the deep to avoid escorts' attacks immediately after firing torpedoes, will the victims of my attack (if any) be scored if i'll not see they're sinking? And is there a right way to ensure scoring attacked ships without risk of keeping visual contact with target?