With realistic plotting (as I outlined above) there would be no attack map.
Nothing on any map would move (animated) at all.
Your sub would be periodically updated, but would not "move" along the map, you'd hit "update" and you'd see the animated hand of the plotter avatar draw in the sub, or perhaps just move the range/bearing tool over the current position.
There would be a dot (range/bearing tool) where you are NOW ("now" defined as when you select the map, or "ask to update map"). There would be lines behind you (which you'd have in you log, forever). Not a curvy line, either. Straight line plots from the time you turned.
No magical GPS system.
I'd also build-in a more realistic navigation system. No, I'm not going to shoot positions with a sextant, I simply don't have the time for that. What I would like, though, is for my position on the world map to be somewhat uncertain. A daily exercise would be for my junior officers to calculate where we were. Have the AI do it, and the results might have an error bar that fluctuates with crew skill. If I'm in a storm for days, I should be VERY careful about steering near land.
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