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have to admit i prefer a higher radio report frequency--it's nice to have a steady flow of dynamic radio reports regarding shipping-- even if you ignore a lot of them it sort of allows you to imagine that other uboats are around sending contact reports--even tho theyre not actually there--

have to say that the ship/convoy icons on the map make a huge impact on the gameplay--i tried the game fully patched to 1.4b-- with the map icons working --but have gone back to the unpatched version "out of the box" as it were where for some reason -on my PC - i get no contact icons on the map at any time---

to compensate for the huge hike in difficulty in finding convoys i hiked up the radio report probabiltys and timers for most of the convoys---as even with fequent reports it's still extremely easy to be in the wrong place at the wrong time--knowing a convoy is in BF17 and heading SW at 6 knots is still pretty vague if there is no icon appearing on the map to tell you exactly where abouts in BF17 the convoy actually is---it could be anywhere so you have to do a complete search pattern for BF17 (or what ever grid is given)

makes the increase in frequency of radio contact reports actually far more relevant to the gameplay--as you often need a second report to get some idea of why you haven't been able to find it after the first--is it still in BF17? for example--without the icon your far more gratefull for the second report and even then you can easily miss the convoy altogether..

kinda strange tho--as again it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other as to wether this is actually more realistic or less!!

genuine reports would give the information provided by the icon..ie a much more precise location--mind you only a u-boat or aircraft would be likely to provide that report in the first place (how else would it know the course and speed?) so you would in fact be likely to get a second and even third report --

i've opted for a high frequency of reports to aid location of the convoys and give me a slight feeling of co-operation with an imaginary trailing u-boat