[REQ] Implementing Crew Morale

[billko]

Originally Posted by vindex

I have never seen morale change from normal, although I've heard rumors of people who have (rarely) seen it.

In fact, the crew seem to have very little to do with the performance of my boat at all. My boat dives the same and handles the same regardless of how high or low the "effectiveness" bar is in the relevant rooms. Maybe sonar and radar are effected, but I haven't seen any evidence. The only thing that is clearly effective is torpedo loading times.

Well, that's the thing about "morale." In real life, morale affects efficiency in a crew (or any work force) in subtle ways. Take a real life example: morale "broken" at a shop where everyone knows there's going to be major layoffs. Things get done more slowly, attention to detail falls off, machines tend to be neglected and because of that, they tend to break down more easily.

I'm just guessing, but maybe broken morale in SH4 amounts to being "frozen" in a panic state, or not being able to do anything more than stare in hopeless despair at the mess presented to them (much like the example above). On the other hand, maybe a fanatical response to an emergency would be to increase efficiency because of an unwillingess to give in to a "hopeless" situation.

At least I'm *hoping* it's subtle and not non-existant.

edit:
I'm thinking it's the former and not the latter because one of the abilities leaders have a chance get as they progress is to increase fanatical chances in the crew.

Bill