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Improved Ballast Control

My great thanks go to to ждун, who helped me a lot during my crash dive into C# programming and also the TDC mod team which showcased the huge modding potential of UBOAT!
Additional thanks to all closed BETA testers and McDewgle for the Deck awash icon.

►B128 and B129, not updated for the latest game version.
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►Mod is not compatible with Iron Coffins mod.

► All options, blow ballast, adjust ballast and flood tanks are available at all times, unless the valves are damaged, or boat is docked.
► Most importantly, the ballast adjustment is possible to be done repeatedly to compensate for water pumped out, flooded in, or change in depth.
► There is no flooding / negative buoyancy requirement for the adjust ballast action, it can be done at any time.
►► Performance of the adjust ballast action was improved for situations where you have to compensate for excess of positive buoyancy. Tanks are now flooded faster.
►► New adjust ballast for deck awash action, which sets the ballast to 40%. Activate this or the button next to the depth control to go deck awash.

► Buoyancy is now displayed in 1 percent increments.
► Ranges in which the icon changes to yellow (warning) and red (danger) have been reworked.
► The up and down arrow had multiple meanings in original game based on situation, this is now changed to simple: up - buoyancy increases, down - buoyancy decreases.
► Tooltip of the buoyancy icon now contains detailed report about ballast tanks and flooding of the boat.

To help with the flooding control, the regular sailors are also able to block the leaks, to assign sailor to block the leak, just interact with the leak with no officer selected. You can unassign sailor from leak blocking by right clicking on the action queue in the lower left corner of the screen.

►► This feature is now reworked and actually checks if there any leaks in the hull. If yes, the pump will be kept running, of not, the pump will be disabled after 30 seconds, when compartments are dry.
►► Power consumption of the pump was reduced by about 60%, to bring it more to the realistic level and allow the possibility to run it nonstop also on slow diesel speeds. I recommend using the Device Energy Consumption mod to bring it completely to the realistic level.

►► Water tolerance for the depth steers station was increased significantly and sailors will only leave when the water level actually reaches the depth controls.
►► Electrical engine will be also operated as long as the water level is below the electrical switchboards above them.
►► Those two changes increase the survival chances dramatically in cases where stern of the boat was damaged, as running engine on max speed plus fully manned depth steers with officer can compensate for 15-20% of negative buoyancy.

► Equipment in the compartments gets damage from the pressure in the vanilla game, but the pressure is not calculated correctly and it always reflects the actual depth of the submarine. That is for both cases, when there is leak in the compartment and also when it is not. It is simply enough to have certain level of water in the compartment and when the submarine reaches depth of say 100m, there will be 11atm of pressure in the compartment, even when there was no leak anymore. This is also not correct with existing leak, because it takes time till the compartment floods thru the relatively small leak hole and the pressure outside of the boat equalizes with the pressure of the air that is in the compartment.
►► This behavior is now corrected and the compartment pressure is now correctly calculated.
►► All hatches now display pressure on both of their sides.
►► Hatches will only get damaged when pressure difference across them is over their rated pressure. Open hatches will therefore not take damage from the pressure.
►► Air actually flows between the compartments and pressure is getting equalized.
►► Air is exchanged (pressure equalized) thru conning tower hatch to the control room and thru diesel intake and snorkel into the diesel engine room.
►► Diesel engine and compressors actually consume air, but the amount is scaled down for gameplay purposes and the values are far from realistic, especially for the compressors. You needed about 4000m3 of air at 1atm to completely fill the compressed air flasks and VIIC internal volume is about 600m3. You could not run the compressor underwater in reality, the crew would be killed before you pump any significant amount into the flasks.
I will then later make a realistic pressure mod which will bring stuff to real values, but this is too hardcore to include in this mod.
►► When running with snorkel and the snorkel head undercuts the water surface, there is temporary underpressure created.
►► There are at this moment no penalties from underpressure, but I will implement something in the future. Your feedback is welcome.
►► There is as at this moment no link between the compartment pressure and the "oxygen" resource.
►► Time before the crew will suffocate (from lack of O2 or extreme compartment over or underpressure) or drown in too deep water is now generally extended. You have more time to evacuate them from the danger. There is however random number in this choking vanilla mechanic, so there will be still some earlier casualties.
►► Main purpose of the pressure overhaul is at this moment to correct the pressure dependent damage on devices within compartments, but the features will be further expanded.

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