Ship repair times

[Noname117]

The repair times on ships after they have been damaged in battle seem really weird to me. Often I expect most of my important ships involved in a battle to be damaged, and often only one or two actually are. And they're either those really seriously damaged or those very lightly damaged.

Recently I fought a battle as Austria Hungary against France on a livestream. It was a complete victory, 5 French capital ships and 5 French destroyers sent to the bottom for the loss of a single minesweeper. To a submarine.

But I had 3 capital ships damaged during the battle. Monarch, Tirol, and Vorarlberg. So here is the damage each ship suffered:








Please excuse the Nvidia Geforce screenshot popups and the taskbar at the bottom


So here is the list of active ships immediately after the battle:




So you can see what is weird about this, right? Vorarlberg is in the yards repairing damage for 3 months while both Monarch and Tirol, the latter suffering worse damage than Vorarlberg after taking a torpedo hit from a French destroyer, are both ready for active service this month. I mean, I would expect the other 2 ships, or at the very least Tirol, to be out for at least a month as well. So what is going on here?

I swear there was an issue with scrapping not giving the full amount of resources it was supposed to if a ship had a refit. So that's what I'm thinking is going on here. Vorarlberg had a director fitted onto her as she completed, which is why it appears she was refit, even though she hasn't been. Both Monarch and Tirol were refit with directors prior to the war. Could that be what's causing this?

[Fredrik W]

No, it should not have anything to do with refits. Repair times are based on damage suffered with some randomness thrown in.

[Noname117]

That's a lot of randomness for Vorarlberg to be out for 3 months while 2 similarly damaged ships are back for the next month. Something weird is going on here.

[fishy]

Off topic. You got a youtube channel? I don't like watching livestream as I can't pause or rewind.

Also, what are you using to record your videos?

[Noname117]

A: Yes, I do have a YouTube channel, where I did upload all of the livestreams up to this point. And I use OBS to livestream this game (I just do a desktop capture, although a window capture on the game will get you most, but not all, of it). I have twitch set to keep my livestreams around for a bit (2 weeks), and during that time I export them to YouTube.

[archelaos]

Ha, and I thought I'm seeing things. I noticed on a few occasions simmilar occurences, where I was puzzled by after battle results. On those occasions it seemed as if the game picked for repairs a different ship, than was most damaged in battle. Andin fact similar to shown here, one ship eats torp, and another is then repaired.

I always interpreted this randomness that battle screen is only showing damage hampering ships ability to fight, while actual damage to non-critical structures may be far heavier, for example colapsed mast or funnel wont sink a ship, but may require long time to replace it and all the things damaged as it fell. Or sth like Graf Spee, doomed by damage to the part that wasn't important in the battle itself.

[fishy]

Can you link your youtube account so I can subscribe?