Snowman999
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ORIGINAL: toonces Hey all, A number of times, I will have a ship get badly wounded in combat, but not sink. I will send the ship back to a port. Several times (in fact, it seems most times), when the ship sinks many turns later, either at sea or even docked in port, the CO of the ship dies. This doesn't make sense. If a ship is underway after combat for a few days and then sinks, the crew (including the CO) should have ample time to abandon ship, right? This would be especially true in port. I just had a ship that I managed to get to port at Brisbane sink in port, and the CDR was killed. I can't understand what I should be doing different. I suppose it is possible the CDR is killed during the combat and is reported dead when the ship sinks, but it seems to occur awfully frequently for this to be the case. Thanks for the help. toonces I think the CO-death routine was adjusted downward about three patches ago. IIRC, it used to be 100% losses at sinking. A ship limping back with fires and flooding could very well lose much of her crew if they lost the fight, especially in weather and especially the snipes. Even in port remember those are 60-mile hexes. And even "docked" doesn't mean pierside at every base. Anchoring out in a large lagoon isn't much different than being at sea if there is significant flooding; staging and coffer-damming are hard to handle away from a pier. I've cruised around in the large lagoon at Diego Garcia, and it would be quite possible to sink in a DC casualty before any shore assistnace could reach the vessel.
< Message edited by Snowman999 -- 6/8/2007 3:21:26 AM >
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