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Originally Posted by Kapitän
What does the Stiebler Silent Running Mod emulate?
Sinking slowly, what else, max speed of xxx?
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From the patches documents. In my experience there isn't much having to turn it on and off though as one has to in AOD:
"Silent-running Fix
When your U-boat is silent-running, all powered pumps are switched off in order to reduce the noise.
This means that water seeps in at depths below 100m, especially from leaks, and cannot be pumped
out and accumulates in the bilges. As a result, the U-boat becomes slowly heavier, and sinks very
slowly. This effect is seen only when the U-boat is moving too slowly for the hydroplanes to be
effective at maintaining depth.
The slow-sinking effect when silent-running was a feature of the old Aces of the Deep simulation, but
never made it to SH3. We have now corrected this oversight. Your U-boat will sink very slowly if the
switch for this option is toggled on. It makes it very important to control how you use silent-running
now, below depths of 100m. You have to manage the operation of silent-running, on and off. It is
even more of a challenge when you are deep and trying to creep away from an attacking escort. In
fact, you need some skill to know when to use silent-running and when to turn it off.
Our fix is a kludge. What happens is this:
When you go to silent-running, the player-set depth-gauge is decreased very slightly (depending on
underwater speed). This process drags the U-boat very slowly downwards. There are issues with this
coding approach, but we have been unable to find anything better. A particular advantage is that Uboat
buoyancy is irrelevant, so that the downwards buoyancy of NYGM, the upwards buoyancy of
GWX, and the neutral buoyancy of stock SH3 has no effect on how well this mod works!
a) When you reach the depth you required, you must click in the depth gauge again at that depth, to
prevent further sinking - assuming that you have sufficient speed not to sink anyway. Levelling off
your depth with key 'A' has little effect, it does not affect the depth gauge.
b) When you blow tanks, the depth gauge will not be updated, and you must click on a higher depth
on the gauge.
Managing your depth when very deep and being hunted by escorts has now become a real challenge!"