Faster Dive achieved

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

Another thoguht ive had is to reduce the surface and submerged displacement in the sim file. Yes a lighter displacment is inaccurate, but in the SIM file, who will really notice? Overall, in trying to improve dive time, ive been comparing Sh4 gato sim files to a type 9 sim file from Sh3, and trying to match the variables as a type 9 has aruond a 42-45 second dive time with an MBT_FloodRate of 7,000. Yet, in SH4, we have 20,000 flood rates, for a much slower dive time. I do not understand that, so i figure the answer is probably in other variables, or the game just handles it's computations completly different, which is most likely the case.

This is normal Ducimus. I'll see if I can find the link later, but I seem to remember the US boat's normal dive speeds (not riding the vents or some other trick) were typically 15-20 seconds+ longer than the U-boats. Fastest diving boats in WWII where actually British boats. (must be the rum)

So, no reason to worry about trying to get a US boat to match the normal dive speed of a U-boat.