Fix to sleeping crew, torp loading and repairs.

Takao · 04-14-07, 01:11 AM

I have not experienced problems 1 & 3, but I have had #2. the first watch was totally fatigued, while the rest of the crew slept. Before you ask, No I wasn't at GQ. I located and attacked a carrier task force, sinking 2 Shokaku class CVs and 1 Akizuki class DD. There still remains 1 Shokaku(Yes, a third Shokaku, don't ask), 1 Takao, 1 Furutaka, 2 Chitose seaplane carriers, and 2 tankers. I was/am in the process of doing an end run on the Task Force, which is taking awhile, because of 2 ASW patrols from the carriers and the occasional Mavis from Japan(I'm several hundred miles SSW of Honshu). So, its run like hell, dive, run like hell, dive, rinse, repeat.

Now, while running on the surface, I hear the engines stop, and the USS Tuna starts losing speed. Every order is met with cannot comply. So, I check the crew manifest. Low and behold, the First Watch is totally fatigued, and the 2nd and 3rd watches are all sleeping. Screw 'em, I sound GQ and we get going again. Then, I stand down from GQ 1st watch, still wasted, goes back to work, and 2nd & 3rd go back to sleeping. AAAARGH! There is no way I have found to manually change the watches. So, I take every crewman on 2nd Watch and swap out the men on first watch. All goes well for about 2 hours(game time), when Ding, Ding, Shift Change! This is probably the 4th Shift change I remember during this patrol. I figured I had missed them while at high TC crossing the Pacific. Since nearing Japan, I haven't gone over X256, and since picking up the Task Force X4. But, with the shift change, the exhausted ex-1st watch goes back to work and all comes to a stand still AGAIN! So, I swap watches again, and crash dive as the SD radar picks up an inbound ASW patrol aircraft.

Too add insult to injury, I had been hitting "O" for the Observation periscope so much, I wanted the Attack periscope's better maginification to see if the carrier planes were turning towards me or away. So, in a moment's forgetfulness, I hit the "A" key(knowing full well the "A" key is for level planes and hitting it will cause a Crash). YUP! you guessed it, CTD!

04-14-07, 01:11 AM	#8
Takao Officer Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Reading, PA Posts: 244 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I have not experienced problems 1 & 3, but I have had #2. the first watch was totally fatigued, while the rest of the crew slept. Before you ask, No I wasn't at GQ. I located and attacked a carrier task force, sinking 2 Shokaku class CVs and 1 Akizuki class DD. There still remains 1 Shokaku(Yes, a third Shokaku, don't ask), 1 Takao, 1 Furutaka, 2 Chitose seaplane carriers, and 2 tankers. I was/am in the process of doing an end run on the Task Force, which is taking awhile, because of 2 ASW patrols from the carriers and the occasional Mavis from Japan(I'm several hundred miles SSW of Honshu). So, its run like hell, dive, run like hell, dive, rinse, repeat. Now, while running on the surface, I hear the engines stop, and the USS Tuna starts losing speed. Every order is met with cannot comply. So, I check the crew manifest. Low and behold, the First Watch is totally fatigued, and the 2nd and 3rd watches are all sleeping. Screw 'em, I sound GQ and we get going again. Then, I stand down from GQ 1st watch, still wasted, goes back to work, and 2nd & 3rd go back to sleeping. AAAARGH! There is no way I have found to manually change the watches. So, I take every crewman on 2nd Watch and swap out the men on first watch. All goes well for about 2 hours(game time), when Ding, Ding, Shift Change! This is probably the 4th Shift change I remember during this patrol. I figured I had missed them while at high TC crossing the Pacific. Since nearing Japan, I haven't gone over X256, and since picking up the Task Force X4. But, with the shift change, the exhausted ex-1st watch goes back to work and all comes to a stand still AGAIN! So, I swap watches again, and crash dive as the SD radar picks up an inbound ASW patrol aircraft. Too add insult to injury, I had been hitting "O" for the Observation periscope so much, I wanted the Attack periscope's better maginification to see if the carrier planes were turning towards me or away. So, in a moment's forgetfulness, I hit the "A" key(knowing full well the "A" key is for level planes and hitting it will cause a Crash). YUP! you guessed it, CTD!