7E Anti Sonar coating

[Astro-baarn]

I have it installed at level 5 at my 7E for some time and it really works wonderfull.
I have never been discovered any more since I use it by escorts even though I am straigth in the red ping beam, also if 2 or 3 are beaming at same time at me

but, before I could easily go from St Nazaire to a mission in sector AD and still have about 75% after some gameplay in mission (1700 miles)
yesterday I noticed while playing a simple mission in phase 2 on North Sea in AN 65 so about 170 miles from Wilhelsmhaven I started from that in 5 minutes the coating was worn of to 52% and after returning to Wilhelmshaven back to 0%, repair time 1 hr 45 min

I raised a question to support, I think there might be a bug that causes it to wear down way too fast

are more people having this problem was the question of support, so please react

[SubCruiser]

Some players don't use the anechoic coating because of the costs and the repair time are huge. I don't know what the reality was: maybe the coating needed extra caring or had attrition that needed frequently replacement, why not? On the other hand when they found U-480 in 1998 the rubber pads were in amazing good condition. However, I think it's not a bug.

[Astro-baarn]

well, bug or not, something has changed. I am using this coating for about 7 of 8 weeks now and each mission, also the far away ones like at south coast of Greenland the coating just worn off at mission arrival to 85% - 75% and then during the mission further. after returning from long distance in bunker there was still 20% or more left, repair time about 55 min till 1 hr 10 min

since yesterday I have even for small short mission like 170 miles out and 170 miles back 0% left and repair time of over 1 hr 45 min
before that it never happened so that is why I think something is wrong. also looking to the distance they say in shop it can't be possible that a lvl5 coating drops to 0% in a < 400 miles mission

[Astro-baarn]

today I did similar mission as yesterday
made several screenshots to explain and show
due to limited MB here for pictures I used an external image host, it might show advertisements or so
to make it clear, I also explain this on other forums, I don't get any money for it


so, back to this mission, a quite simple one, cost me about 15 min to play
just about 140 miles away from Wilhelmshaven according to Google Earth
it is normal that with a +/- 400 miles mission your coating is completely gone

[Kaleun_Prien]

I used lvl 5 "Alberich" two times but because of huge repaircosts (rapid wear without enemy impact) and repair times I uninstalled it. Even lvl 1 is not worth to install.