Failure to skip to home port (TCP + fuel but boat doesn't move) + solution

[SheWolf]

This happens a lot to me. At first I wasn't going to complain but the problem is getting much worse now, or at least its really bad today.
My problem is when I hit the go to home port then click the skip to it will take both my tcp's and fuel but wont take me there. Just now I made it to port but couldnt do anything. I thought maybe my browser locked up/froze at first. but when I clicked on the world map from "inside" my home port it showed me being back out in the ocean in my former spot. So I clicked on set course, then clicked onto my home port "again" and it did it again. In fact it did it about 5 or 6 times. I even ran out of fuel out in the ocean because it kept taking my tcp's and my fuel but not taking me home even though it showed I was home.

This last time cost me 10 credit's so i could refuel out in the ocean even thou I originally had plenty of fuel but being stuck in the glitch it ate all my fuel up "twice" and idk but a lot of my tcp's since it happened several times.

Please FIX THIS since it ate up a good quarter of my tcp's and it took me over 2 and a half hours to even log on today

[Erbschleicher]

I already have a post up with this issue and several others have left similiar feedback . apparently it is a known issue and the best way to get around it for now is to plot a course in stages , so navigate to just outside port and then navigate to port from there

[Buffy]

I ran into the same problem. Went through about 1/2 tank of fuel -- wasted -- and then had to buy more to get home. I figured out the stages thing, but the lost resources thing just makes me wonder about continuing with the game since I had to use gold to refill and I've got very little of that.

Is this a way to try to convince people to pay money to play...by setting up situations that drain their gold?

[Erbschleicher]

i lost a ton of TCP and fuel till i learned to avoid it , its a bug and thats what Beta testing is for , to find and report bugs.

[sasuk]

same for me today

[Docklander]

Same here, jumped back to mid-ocean and emptied the diesel tanks. 6 credits to refill

[Klingsor]

Don't skip directly to home port, but short in front of it ("reason" of problem is warp point is too closed to coast and nav off sends boat back).
Once skipped near to base aou are able to enter the bunker.

Another one: if you have no diesel left to return and don't want to pay with gold so skip/drive until tank is empty, then dialogue appears "do you want refill by gold or go home slowly within 24 hours?". If you choose 24h so you can log off for a day or use a second boat.

[kapitanbill]

I've been bitten by this many times, even after I learned the "fix", mostly because I simply forget to skip back in stages.

One thing I'll say though, if you do indeed run your fuel dry because of this glitch, file a ticket and support will reimburse the gold you spent.

Just a point of interest, but I've also noticed that for me at least, this problem only happens when I try to skip back to Wilhelmshaven. I've never seen it occur with the u-boats I leave in St Naz, even though those subs typically skip longer distances. (Perhaps because the water is deeper at St Naz.)


EDIT: After posting this reply, I noticed this thread is a very old one. So, my apologies for commenting on an issue that has been obviously ignored for so long.

[shotgun]

same problem here

[SubCruiser]

remind the workaround to avoid that glitch
good hints at en.whowiki.net