Real Battery Life Fix - AKA Advanced NASA Battery Fix

[VonHelsching]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Wow, how did i miss this thread.

What exactly did you change in the sim files?

Ive already heavily edited my sim files and would like to incorporate these changes into them. So an itemized list of what was changed and its new value would be much appreciated.

I suppose i could always D/L it later and open the files up and see for myself, but im at work atm and can't do that right now.

Well Admiral here we go:

Replace the underwater ranges under "electric propulsion" (@ 4 kn for all u-boat except the XXI, which is @ 6 kn) with the following:

IIA: 23
IIB: 28 [RuB and GW version only]
IID: 37
VIIB: 69
VIIC: 59
VIIC/41: 59
IXB: 44
IXC: 44
IXD/2: 40
XXI: 221

With these units you will now have the real underwater ranges.-see first post-
You were playing for a year or so with ~35% more underwater range (as the rest of us)

Things get more interesting now when your battery drops below 25%. And this happens quite more often now...

[Ducimus]

Thanks much, i appreciate the work it took to get those numbers.

I always had a feeling someting was up. For example High speed manuvering at flank speed, bats should have only lasted an hour or so if i remember correctly. I never attempted a high speed run for that long, but im pretty sure it wouldnt drain in that time.

That and being able to keep an IXboat down for say 14 hours or so and only drain around 50% seemed just plain wrong.

Crossing Gibralter wont be such a joke now either.

Im gonna have to hurry up and shoot my fish, and bring U333 back to port for an "overhaul" it seems

[VonHelsching]

Yeah! At flank speed your battery will last much less now. Thinks get interesting though under 25% when you start crawling...

Oh! I forgot. The NASA fix includes part of two other fixes;
You probably have them, but for the sake of completing a manual editing guide:

The first fix is yours: The battery fix of the XXI:

-Surface engine power 4475, rpm: 550
-Electric: engine power 2750, rpm: 560

And the other the IDX/2 range fix

- 23700 @ 12 kn

BTW, I just saw minute discrepancies in the stock surface range of the IXC, should be 13450 @10 / ~12450 @ 12 instead of 11000 @ 12. Just for the stock version; the RuB one is OK. Also some really hardcore stuff: discrepancies in displacement. The IXB is supposed to have ~100 tns less than the IXC

[Stiebler]

Ducimus said:

Ive already heavily edited my sim files and would like to incorporate these changes into them. So an itemized list of what was changed and its new value would be much appreciated.

That is precisely the circumstance for which I created SH3Battery1_1.zip, which can be downloaded now from Terrapin's site (http://Uboat.realsimulation.com).

It contains a program that stamps the correct values across any existing NSS_Uboatxx.sim file, creating a back-up and making no other changes.

Stiebler.

[mikaelanderlund]

Hi,

Are some of these mods also GW friendly?

Mikael

[dize]

Originally Posted by mikaelanderlund

Hi,

Are some of these mods also GW friendly?

Mikael

was about to ask the same. will this work with GW?

[VonHelsching]

As promised to the GW team, I working right now to make a GW compatible version.

I think it will be ready in an hour or so.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by VonHelsching

As promised to the GW team, I working right now to make a GW compatible version.

I think it will be ready in an hour or so.

That is very cool of you sir! Thank you!!!

[VonHelsching]

*UPDATE*

Dedicated to the Grey Wolves team:

Real Battery Live AKA Advanced NASA Battery Fix for the Grey Wolves Supermod

See first post for the links

But now, I need really hair raising reports of young Grey Wolflings about low oxygen, high CO2, batteries running below 25% while hunted by DDs, depth charges damaging the fragile batteries etc.

Have Fun!

P.S.

:hmm: It just struck me...
I have an idea about Hemisent's sabotage mod...:|\

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by VonHelsching

*UPDATE*

Dedicated to the Grey Wolves team:

Real Battery Live AKA Advanced NASA Battery Fix for the Grey Wolves Supermod

See first post for the links

But now, I need really hair raising reports of young Grey Wolflings about low oxygen, high CO2, batteries running below 25% while hunted by DDs, depth charges damaging the fragile batteries etc.

Have Fun!

P.S.

:hmm: It just struck me...
I have an idea about Hemisent's sabotage mod...:|\

Three cheers for VonHelsching!