A.I. vessels repairing?

Safe-Keeper · 12-30-06, 12:33 PM

Did it ever bother anyone else that nothing A.I. in Silent Hunter 4 ever repairs its damage? Put something on fire and it burns forever. Breach the hull of a ship and it either lists or sinks. And so on. I've never seen a fire being taken out, or any other kind of damage be repaired. I think A.I. vessels can stop flooding, but that's the extent of it.

Wouldn't it be better overall if A.I. vessels also repaired themselves over time? Not to mention doing things like balancing flooding, etc.?

JU_88 · 12-30-06, 03:56 PM

I just made a thread almost Identical to yours....

(with out seeing yours first of course)

Heh, "great minds think alike" and all that

So er...... bump.

Schatten · 12-30-06, 04:13 PM

I saw both threads and didn't know which one to post on, so since you posted here too JU-88 I'll go with this one as well.

I'd definately like to see more damage control as well, especially on warships. I mean the Yamato had in the region of 1,200 honeycombed watertight compartments and it'd be a disappointment to be able to blow her out of the water with the same number of torpedos that are needed to take out a BB in SH III. Capital ships were designed to be very hard to sink both structurally through the compartmentilzation and torpedo belt, as well as the advanced damage control measures that were used by their crews.

JU_88 · 12-30-06, 05:58 PM

One thing missing from SH3 - if you attack a vessel and it burns, the fire never spreads though out the ship to destoy it, it would be nice if there was a random element simulating fire spreading though a ship, or being extinguished by the crew if its minor.
probably a too tall an order for SHIV. :hmm:

U-104 · 12-30-06, 06:13 PM

it was in SH2 why not SH4.:hmm:

Oesten · 12-31-06, 04:56 PM

In real life, the battleship Fuso was hit by two torpedoes from a US destroyer, caught fire, lost speed, turned back............and half an hour later suffered a catastrophic magazine explosion that blew the ship completely in half!

See: http://www.combinedfleet.com/atully06.htm

Now if there was a chance of that happening to a BB in SH4, that would be great!

12-30-06, 12:33 PM	#1
Safe-Keeper Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 3,234 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	A.I. vessels repairing? Did it ever bother anyone else that nothing A.I. in Silent Hunter 4 ever repairs its damage? Put something on fire and it burns forever. Breach the hull of a ship and it either lists or sinks. And so on. I've never seen a fire being taken out, or any other kind of damage be repaired. I think A.I. vessels can stop flooding, but that's the extent of it. Wouldn't it be better overall if A.I. vessels also repaired themselves over time? Not to mention doing things like balancing flooding, etc.? __________________ First Strike Mod tester. Hardcore sub skipper.

12-30-06, 04:13 PM	#3
Schatten Engineer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 212 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I saw both threads and didn't know which one to post on, so since you posted here too JU-88 I'll go with this one as well. I'd definately like to see more damage control as well, especially on warships. I mean the Yamato had in the region of 1,200 honeycombed watertight compartments and it'd be a disappointment to be able to blow her out of the water with the same number of torpedos that are needed to take out a BB in SH III. Capital ships were designed to be very hard to sink both structurally through the compartmentilzation and torpedo belt, as well as the advanced damage control measures that were used by their crews. __________________

12-30-06, 06:13 PM	#5
U-104 Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: United States Posts: 797 Downloads: 151 Uploads: 0	it was in SH2 why not SH4.:hmm: __________________ My heart is steadfast, O God. I will sing and make music with all my soul. Ps. 108:1 Survival of the fittest does not explain arrival of the fittest. we live in a single spoken sentence.. "God said, let there be"

12-30-06, 03:56 PM	#2
JU_88 Silent Hunter Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 3,750 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	I just made a thread almost Identical to yours.... (with out seeing yours first of course) Heh, "great minds think alike" and all that So er...... bump.

12-30-06, 05:58 PM	#4
JU_88 Silent Hunter Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 3,750 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	One thing missing from SH3 - if you attack a vessel and it burns, the fire never spreads though out the ship to destoy it, it would be nice if there was a random element simulating fire spreading though a ship, or being extinguished by the crew if its minor. probably a too tall an order for SHIV. :hmm:

12-31-06, 04:56 PM	#6
Oesten A-ganger Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 79 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	In real life, the battleship Fuso was hit by two torpedoes from a US destroyer, caught fire, lost speed, turned back............and half an hour later suffered a catastrophic magazine explosion that blew the ship completely in half! See: http://www.combinedfleet.com/atully06.htm Now if there was a chance of that happening to a BB in SH4, that would be great!