I wanna rest my boat on the bottom...

[kylesplanet]

Well I don't know a lot about how the Jap DD's sonar worked but I guess that if the bottom was ideal conditions, it might be of some advantage as a last resort, to bottom it out (maybe the soft mud would absorb some of the sound???) but I don't think it would be to hard to ping out a big steel tube if the DD had a pretty good idea where it probably is.

If I remember right, Sailor Steve had a good post on this a while back.:hmm: Maybe we can dig it up or he could repost his thoughts.

[pythos]

whether or not this was a viable tactic, I would still like to have my boat rest on the bottom after taking the initial impact damage while my crew perform repairs, instead of taking damage second by second as what currently happens.

What files need modding to achieve this?

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by pythos

whether or not this was a viable tactic, I would still like to have my boat rest on the bottom after taking the initial impact damage while my crew perform repairs, instead of taking damage second by second as what currently happens.

What files need modding to achieve this?

I'm sure I've rested my boat on the bottom before with no ill effects. Just stop your engines and set depth, so you don't plough into the sea bed. You shouldn't crushed, unless the sea bed is too deep of course! Do you have any mods currently?

You didn't say what version you are running or what mods. Perhaps your insta death is caused by a mod conflict?

[Kron161]

I'm sure I've rested my boat on the bottom before with no ill effects. Just stop your engines and set depth, so you don't plough into the sea bed. You shouldn't crushed, unless the sea bed is too deep of course!

Right. Bottoming the boat with forward motion (any kind of motion) or with a lot of vertical speed will cause a huge a amount of damage.

Try stopping the boat. hover just a couple of feet about the bottom and then settle it down.

[399nkov]

I've seen boats on the bottom, but in shallow water and tied up to the pier. Eight or ten boats settled to the bottom to ride out Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which was heading for Key West. A sight to see. A few had to ride out the storm because of experimental equipment on the bottom of the hull, mine included.

read this thread:
MOD - Thomsen's No Instant Death Screen Plus Effects V1.1

it should put you on the right path to get what you want.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=128748

[pythos]

This appears to be for an early version of SH3. Will it work with the latest SH4

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Kron161

Right. Bottoming the boat with forward motion (any kind of motion) or with a lot of vertical speed will cause a huge a amount of damage.

Try stopping the boat. hover just a couple of feet about the bottom and then settle it down.

Thats what i do. Not that i bottom the boat all that often. Not something i particuarly like to do since

a.) It doesnt fool the AI
b.) Depth charges have no where to go but right on you.

I suspect that if its not a stock issue, then its an issue with reduced hitpoints. Subs in TM do infact have half the hitpoints of stock, and 5 or 10 less armor , i forget exactly, but in stock, some capital warships have those kind of statistics. That had to change.

If we had an acutal boyancy model aside from neutral, i might be more concerned about bottoming the boat, but since all they do is hover, its really not an issue. You could hover 1 to 2 feet off the bottom without any problem at all.