repairing destroyed equipment

[oscar19681]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

have you checked the status screen?

I have had the diesel engines damaged, even off line from DCs, but you can see them get repaired over time, i.e:

What i dont understand about the damage system is what the percentages say. How ****ed am i if both my engines are down to say 40 % or 30% There really is no difference in-game unless they are down to 0% My radio once went down to 23 % and my hydrophone to 44 % Didnt make no differance i could still use them both! It seems the damage system only understand when it hits 0% and then its detroyed beyond repair. I really dont think you can damage systems and as a result they dont work as good anymore. thus the so called "damage" is nothing more to show you how far it is from being destoyed and thats all. Really arcady if you ask me. In fact it works just like a health bar. When it reaches 0% your dead. At leasts in sh-3 when you damages your left engine the left blade would turn slower or stop.

Originally Posted by TheElitePhoenix

Macgyver could fix destroyed systems. All he would need is: A paper clip, ballpoint pen, rubber band, tweezers, nasal spray, and a turkey baster.

dont forget the duct tape, always gotta have duct tape for something

[msxyz]

Originally Posted by captainprid

Wouldn't sea water in the fuel wreck the engines???

The Uboots had separator filters. The fuel tanks located outside the pressure hull were of the "self compensating" type. That means that the consumed fuel was displaced by sea water. Of course, during navigation, water gets mixed with diesel oil although the difference in density and the fact that the fuel is taken from the top of the tanks (as opposed to car tanks which are emptied from the bottom) contributed to a generally low quantity of water present in the oil fed to the engines. Separator filters were still a necessity.

The real problem is not a certain quantity of water sprayed inside the pot (it was seldom done in the past in some high performance aircraft engines to lower the gas temeperature) but corrosion of the fuel lines and sediment deposits in the injector nozzles which will worsen combustion and, in the most severe cases, obturate them.

Since the heavy oil burned by the engine is still lighter than water (0.90-0.95kg/liter), as the fuel stores were consumed, a few trim tanks inside the hull had to be emptied to compensate for the weight difference.

[captainprid]

Originally Posted by msxyz

The Uboots had separator filters. The fuel tanks located outside the pressure hull were of the "self compensating" type. That means that the consumed fuel was displaced by sea water. Of course, during navigation, water gets mixed with diesel oil although the difference in density and the fact that the fuel is taken from the top of the tanks (as opposed to car tanks which are emptied from the bottom) contributed to a generally low quantity of water present in the oil fed to the engines. Separator filters were still a necessity.

The real problem is not a certain quantity of water sprayed inside the pot (it was seldom done in the past in some high performance aircraft engines to lower the gas temeperature) but corrosion of the fuel lines and sediment deposits in the injector nozzles which will worsen combustion and, in the most severe cases, obturate them.

Since the heavy oil burned by the engine is still lighter than water (0.90-0.95kg/liter), as the fuel stores were consumed, a few trim tanks inside the hull had to be emptied to compensate for the weight difference.

I see lol!!

So do you think that under no circumstances short of both shafts snapping or total failure of the hull, the engines couldn't be totally put out of operation?? If that is the case, it would be nice to see them being forced to run under reduced rpm while they are repaired or some tangible result to them at least being damaged

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by oscar19681

What i dont understand about the damage system is what the percentages say. How ****ed am i if both my engines are down to say 40 % or 30% There really is no difference in-game unless they are down to 0% My radio once went down to 23 % and my hydrophone to 44 % Didnt make no differance i could still use them both! It seems the damage system only understand when it hits 0% and then its detroyed beyond repair. I really dont think you can damage systems and as a result they dont work as good anymore. thus the so called "damage" is nothing more to show you how far it is from being destoyed and thats all. Really arcady if you ask me. In fact it works just like a health bar. When it reaches 0% your dead. At leasts in sh-3 when you damages your left engine the left blade would turn slower or stop.

I can't really say since I have only been damaged once by DCs in SH5 which is where those screens are from. Earlier on, when I was a bit too busy evading the escorts to take shots, I did get a message that the diesel engines were offline.

From what I remember in SH3 and sh4, it worked the same. I would be very surprised if the damage code was different. It worked well enough in SH3/4, why would the devs bother to recode it?

[TheElitePhoenix]

Originally Posted by Webster

dont forget the duct tape, always gotta have duct tape for something

And a Swiss Army knife!

Anyways...

Back on topic. Had the same thing happen. Got the s&*t kicked out of me by a DD.... been sitting on the bottom waiting for the Chief to get his 'repair destroyed equipment' ability in gear.... so far nadda.