without comment on the concept itself, why couldn't you ram a submerged submarine?  If they want to avoid a collision, they should have to crit dive under it.  A submerged submarine in this game is assumed to be at periscope depth, that's how they can aim their torps.  A WWII diesel submarine at periscope depth is very shallow, within 20-30 feet of the surface, in some cases significantly less.  The average keel depth of a capital ship is approx 30-40 feet and smaller classes are around 20-30 feet.

ship collision has been suggested and shot down since this game started. Not possible.

This feature was removed long ago for a reason. It will only bring chaos.

This is like autoshooting your teamate and yourself everytime you cross, thus worse. Not a solution to the crossing problem at all. This solution is more like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.

PictWarrior1,

Not a bad idea to be able to ram periscope-depth submarines. Never thought of that...

KingCong,

Perhaps it might be time to reconsider the collision concept as it is downright annoying to only have the one firing to have the experience penalty, while the other crosser gets away scott-free. Of course if the crosser is the one who fires, the penalty is justified. But if the one who collides does it without a care, then he should be penalized.

SylverXI,

It depends.

Crossing ships, whether deliberate or accidental, affects not only themselves but everyone.

Yes, there will definitely be a big consternation should it be implemented but the collision damage concept is to hopefully encourage players to be more alert of their own ships' movement and refrain from crossing other ships to prevent damage to their own ships.

For those who cross with impunity, this should hopefully deter them from doing so.

When the suggestion of a ship crossing warning system was presented to SDE (a check for ships crossing and then a warning like the Torpedo Sighted! warning text at the top), they did infact investigate and test something for some time. However, they concluded that it would require too much extra data transfer to ask the game to constantly check multiple times each second for any crossing occuring and it would cause the game to lag.

Personally I would like a small window, maybe just above the minimap, that had a fixed camera view of my ship so I could see my ship at all times no matter where on the map I was actually looking.

We are Humans FFS look with your eyes ppl and press g for bk and foward view of your ship and target C'mon ppl we are smarter then this ;) but nice Idea tho with the mini map showing the ship while your engaging with the Enemy could work if the map still shows the Enemy too :) I like

Regards,

Skunky :p 

Hi Benser33,

Glad to know that "the suggestion of a ship crossing warning system was presented to SDE " was investigated, tested but found to be impractical...

Your idea of "a small window, maybe just above the minimap, that had a fixed camera view of my ship so I could see my ship at all times no matter where on the map I was actually looking." is a great idea that would require lesser resources in terms of implementation since it is a small video window of the game...?

Hi Skunky1385,

I like Benser33's idea too and hope it could be implemented in the future.

Hi normpearii,

I'm not sure of the technical limitations but I guess it must be such that they decided against implementing it.

Let's hope something could be done to reduce ship crossings...