Watch crew not on deck
 

After evading a depth charging incident, I moved my crew back out of Hogan's Alley and the conning tower slots, and back into their deck watch positions (I am using RFB 2.0 and RSRDC).

After surfacing the sub and going to the bridge I realised none of my crew were there- the bridge was empty. Looking at my crew screen I noticed that the crew in the deck slots were all listed as doing maintenance work, none were on duty (all were greyed out), and none were sleeping.

Is this a bug or have I done something wrong?

*I tried swapping some of the crew members about to see what would happen, and I noticed that if I took a crew member from anywhere other than the active deck shift, and put them into the active deck shift, then his avatar would become coloured, suggesting he was now on station, though still nobody on the bridge, and after a short time he too would become greyed out.

I'd get that ice cream machine working and maybe try a Betty Grable movie.
You know how those American sailors like ice cream and pretty women.

If that doesn't work I'd try going to battle stations and than stand down.
Sounds like the deck watch missed a change of watch in Hogan's alley and maybe that will straighten things out.

Magic

Cheers Magic, a restart of the game seems to have cleared things up. Didn't need the ice cream machine!

Isn't hogan's alley an external part of the conning tower? I mean, how can you put them there when submerged?

No, Hogan's Alley is internal crew quarters. SH4 has the problem that when you submerge the game thinks the watch crew are still on the bridge, so depth charges will kill them instantly. Hogan's Alley was created to fix that problem.

Oh, I get it. Serves me right for never bothering to put them there. Strange, I play TMO and never once felt the need of rushing anyone in there. Is that a problem thar occurs only in stock, or other mods? Or am I not getin' somethin'? :88)

See, I just stay away from those guys with the depth charges, and I never need Hogan's Alley, either. :D

Very sorry for resurrecting this thread, but I'm having the same problem, using TMO & RSRD.

Deck watch is not active. Action stations followed by stand down didn't fix it. any ideas?

Cheers

couple of things to try....
1. save your game and exit SH4. then relaunch SH4 and reload your game.
2. delete the files/folders in your save game folders, relaunch, reset your audio/video/gameplay settings, then play.

next time, please post your JSGME mod list so that we can see what your playing config is. it helps to understand your situation at the time of your problem.
:Kaleun_Salute:

Welcome back!
 

Restart did the trick, though I hope I'm not gonna have to do that every time I surface.

JSGME active list is very short - just the two mods mentioned.

Cheers.

Just call me 'Nemo'. :D

that's excellent news.
:Kaleun_Salute:

do you alt-tab to windows while you are playing a mission? if so, that is probably the cause of the problem. SH4 does not like it when a player alt-tabs and then returns. all sort of bad things can happen. best to not do that.

That, along with other graphic and sound anomalies is caused by "shelling-out" to Windows, while the game is running, even when "Paused". This can happen if you go to look at your email, or use the calculator, or even the system itself popping up one of its infamous systray or "notifications" messages such as "No threats were found..." from the last Defender scan... As soon as you see the issue, do as KM says, and Save the game, exit the game, re-start the game, load the Save, and hopefully continue without issue. If you do continue to have issues, then his #2 would be called for, or possibly re-start with an earlier Save and lose the progress of the career thus far... deleting the Save folder wipes-out everything :salute:

Is hogans alley a mod we can down load here? I hate if I forget to move my deck watch they get killed by depth charges.