145. Damage to gauges.
Mindful of the proposed damage-model in #98, I'd like to see:
Pressure instruments: Depth gauges/trim-tank level/MBT water content/MBT pressure gauges etc.
1. Loss of back-lighting for light damage (reparable)
2. Rendered temporarily inoperable (needle fall off) with medium damage due DC's. (reparable, but takes longer)
3. Permanently inoperable, with broken glass, dislodged needle, loss of back-lighting.
Non pressure gauges All electric gauges, non-pressure gauges, EOT's etc
1. Rendered temporarily inoperable (needle fall off) with medium damage due DC's. (reparable)
2. Permanently inoperable, with broken glass, dislodged needle, loss of back-lighting.
Damage in all cases should be related to the nominal diameter of the gauge of indicator, with larger units more prone to taking damage. This will tend to leave back-up instrumentation intact. Loss of an EOT may result in a having to use verbal orders on the telephone/voice-tube or via a "runner". Usually simply acting according to the one surviving EOT command may work, unless several EOT's in the control room and e-motor/diesel room are broken. Note that in all cases that a gauge has taken damage is observable "by eye".
The general aim of allowing instrumentation to be damaged, is to complicate operation of the boat, so that either standby instrumentation has to be used, or instruments remote from the operator (eg. having to have depths/or 'plane positions etc) read off from an instrument in the tower, to the player below operating the 'planes). It will also serve to force the crew to think through the implications of damaged instrumentation, and who will need what information from where to counter the loss of primary gauges. The more gauges are broken throughout the boat, the greater the risks of diving too deep, or accidentally surfacing, or getting detected because a dive was not performed as it would ordinarily be, etc.
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