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Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER
This should not be a problem with TWOS as the fuel capacity has been increased to account for only Types VII's boats available in the game.
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Not exactly... The fuel capacity have been increased indeed, but only to compensate for
SH world imperfections. Distances near poles in SH world are much bigger than in real world. GWX manual talks about this oddity:
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The range of U-boats in stock Silent Hunter III is consistent with their historical ranges; however, GWX significantly increases the distances that U-boats can travel on a single load of fuel because distances between points of latitude and longitude in Silent Hunter III, e.g., the distances between major ports, are much larger than they are in real life. There are two reasons for the increased distance:
• The shortest distance between two points on a sphere is a Great Circle; however, courses plotted by players in Silent Hunter III are loxodromes, or lines of constant heading, that appear as straight lines on Mercator projections but which curve when the course is plotted on the surface of a three-dimensional sphere (see Figure 45). The difference between the Great Circle distance and the distance along a loxodrome increases as the loxodrome approaches the poles; for example, the distance from Brest, France to Boston, USA is over 10,000 km in Silent Hunter III, but is only about 6,000 km along the real life Great Circle route.
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