Map contacts off is about as realistic as driving a car with a paper bag over your head. It's really impressively difficult, but really stupid. In real life you actually would have positions plotted. You would have tracking of sonar vectors and awareness of aircraft positions when sighted, at least you would have ranges, which are completely nerfed with contacts off. Actually you are completely screwed, losing way too much information with that ridiculous "100%" setting.
Far better to leave contacts on and use TMO or TMOplot. That way you're left with the single defect that visual positions are plotted with perfect precision. If you have the discipline to simply not take measurements from those positions, you're good to go! After all, if you have radar you would have even MORE accurate positions anyway.
But "100%" realism is nothing of the sort. It is rife with fatal defects. Anyone who plays that way has impressive skills, but that's all it proves.
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