[McBeck]

Originally Posted by mcarlsonus

In my world, neither #'s 1 or 2 are relevant to the question at hand. My question has nothing to do with what should remain or what should be removed. It's more along the line of, "why remove/deactivate stuff that's proven useful, popular, and reliable in the past and has contributed significantly to the gaming experience?" Let's just take one relatively tiny portion of the game as an example: ship inventory. Now we have, basically, four freighter types (and Liberty ships also exist in the German merchant marine!) What happened to those fast, heavily armed medium European hot rods? The Victory ships? What about those tiny coasters, trawlers, armed tugs? They're all still there - just not available to the SH5 enthusiast. Does reducing shipping diversity contribute positively to the game experience? Highly doubtful - and easily, CHEAPLY remedied. SO, what WAS the point?

I believe the best way to describe it is: for some inexplicable reason, "they" threw out the baby with the bathwater.

I give up and will leave the discussion