Thanks platapus.
So,from a realism point of view,having map updates on is not much of an issue then,as you say it sort of simulates the crew doing their job,freeing up the commander to see to other pressing matters at that moment.
I only started with map updates off yesterday,after years of playing with full realism except for the god view.I noticed straight away that having it off was ruining my concentration on other things happening around me,becoming tediously time consuming,not to mention quite difficult,with a stadimeter that acts more like a bloody bouncy castle.
I don't think having map updates on to be much of a cheat,if thats what people view it as,because even if you have the initial contacts on the map,in 3 or 4 hrs,or more,the contacts may have changed course anyway.And actually engaging the target efficiently and safely is made no easier either,as all this still has to be maintained by the player alone.
I am going to restart my patrol I think now,and enable the map contacts,and maybe the stabilize view,to simulate what was mentioned earlier,about periscopes with stabilizing mechanisms,which i'm sure they must have had
