Tips on crew management?

[RedMenace]

I'm a SH4 veteran, trying my hand at the german boats with GWX, so I'm not too familiar with the crew management system in SH3. I give my crew shifts and rests, but somehow about 1/2 way through my patrol all my crew gets a case of exhaustion and no amount of cycling seems to help.

What's your tactic for keeping your crew from falling asleep on you?

[Gargamel]

Turn off fatigue. It's unrealistic.

Que Steve's rant on how it's not done that way:

[Red October1984]

Yes. Use SH3 Commander and turn it OFF.

Fatigue is just screwed up in that game.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

Turn off fatigue. It's unrealistic.

Que Steve's rant on how it's not done that way:

Not sure what you mean. I turned Fatigue off a long time ago.

[Red Heat]

On my U-boat i use the option of 8 hours GWX. At the beginning its a little hard to manage but later the crew have more experience dont need too much attention...

Turn fatigue off!?
Not in my Uboot...this is a war vessel not a hospital ship or a cruise liner...

[RConch]

Originally Posted by Red Heat

On my U-boat i use the option of 8 hours GWX. At the beginning its a little hard to manage but later the crew have more experience dont need too much attention...

Turn fatigue off!?
Not in my Uboot...this is a war vessel not a hospital ship or a cruise liner...

That's how I play it.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Red Heat

On my U-boat i use the option of 8 hours GWX. At the beginning its a little hard to manage but later the crew have more experience dont need too much attention...

Unfortunately when you hit a storm and fatigue time is reduced to two hours it becomes a whole lot harder, especially in a Type II. You just don't have enough crew members to cope with it.

Turn fatigue off!?
Not in my Uboot...this is a war vessel not a hospital ship or a cruise liner...

The big problem is that the captain never had to hold crew members by the hand and lead them from their bunks to their duty stations. This is one of the places where SH4 got it right.

[sharkbit]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The big problem is that the captain never had to hold crew members by the hand and lead them from their bunks to their duty stations. This is one of the places where SH4 got it right.

+1

I play with fatigue off as well. One of the first things I learned to do prior to using SH3Commander was how to change the file dealing with fatigue and setting so my crew wouldn't fatigue.

SH3Commander is a godsend in this respect.

I just set my crew where I want them for "battle stations" and forget about them until I need to move people around for damage/wounds/death/destruction.

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Unfortunately when you hit

The big problem is that the captain never had to hold crew members by the hand and lead them from their bunks to their duty stations. This is one of the places where SH4 got it right.

There's the rant !