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Originally Posted by rjmerit
Pacific Ace, so for normal circumstances it would be more realistic to dive and cruise along at say one or two knots for the day and then come back up at night?
As for the in game radar, I'm using stock 1.4 and if I have SJ on, I will not get contacts from my SD. I wasn't talking about turning the SD off but turning off the SJ. If this works differently please let me know how, because as of right now if I'm running daylight on the surface I just flip on the SJ for a few minutes and then turn it back off because I won't get air contacts with the SJ turned on.
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Well as I said before, your tactics would fit your current situation. From a game standpoint I usually submerge in the day time in high air traffic areas because it irritates me to constantly dive and surface. From a real life standpoint it is a matter of mitigating your risks, which are already astronomical to start with. Keep in mind that a crash dive in real life was no easy task and carried high risk in and of themselves. It also disrupts your subs routine and peoples sleep.
Other factors come in play as well. What is the weather like? Is the sea glassy smooth? Skippers hated this as waves serve to break up their boat wake and periscope feather. What time in the war is it? Later in the war Japanese ships and aircraft began to be equipped with radar.
As for your SD/SJ issue, Ive never heard of it. Are you fully patched? I personally have never played stock SH4 I use the RFB or FotRS supermods and I have both radars on all the time and no problems.