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Originally Posted by Major Johnson

Well, a final report on the game using GFO. These findings may or may not be GFO related but they are definite fixes that need to be addressed at some point, if possible.

Still way too many planes where they shouldn't be, meaning too far from land and no aircraft carriers in the area. There appears to be a zone, just west of the Bonin Is. In my patrol zones the planes were practically non-existent, then when I was trying to get home, that's where some major problems popped up, which one of was too many planes spawning from one direction, then like an hour (game time) from the other direction. That's just plain ridiculous. I just ignored them as they never saw me anyway, but the constant radar reporting on the same contact and dropping me out of tc just totally took me out of the game.

Another thing was way too many sub hunting task forces, especially along the same route going back to PH. Just west of the Bonin Is. If it wasn't planes, it was a task force. And once again, the constant radar reports on the same targets. I tried turning the radar off from the radar station and the menu bar, but it kept turning itself on! Who's in charge here anyway??

And the same thing when I got in friendly waters, constant air and ship contacts, taking me out of tc every few seconds!! That's a real deal killer for me. Do we really need constant radar contacts of friendly forces?? I don't think so. You want to tell me once, ok, but once is enough. It was a nightmare just trying to get close enough to the base so the icon would show up for me to end the patrol.

And my previous findings of the hydrophones not working manually in the Tambor and Gato. That really should be looked into as well.

Time for some shore leave!

You may feel there are too many planes as a lot of people do. But your 'facts' are incorrect. The area you mention is within range of long range bombers. And if the planes were from a carrier, it would probably be too far away for you to even realize it was there. A carrier could come within 30 miles of you and you wouldn't even know it, and the planes definitely have a longer range than that.

So there may be too many planes but not for the reasons you give. And another thing you need to take into consideration is TC. If you are using TC then the planes could be coming one every 5 hours and it would seem to you that there were a million of them.

And I also agree in 'stock' there were a LOT of 2 and 3 ship DDs patrolling the area. I don't know if Game fixes address that since it is not a 'bug', it was written that way. I know it started out fixing mistakes and has evolved into more than that, but that was the original intent.

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