Doing this reminds me of al the little things that would have made such a HUGE difference in the quality of SH4. Note that many of these small fixes were never fixed for SH5 as far as I understand... The roster file ship names actually doing something... the skin frequency (dan said it doesn't work), auto-generate rec manual, etc, ad nauseum.
We're lucky that we actually have a decent number of ships I suppose, but so many of the choices made for SH4 merchants boggle the mind.
Zinbu? WTF, seriously, WTF? I hope that model was cheap, or already done for some other problem, it's a 1-off hull that looks like nothing else with a jap flag on it in RL. Paula? Ditto (useful in the ATO, I hope?). Haruna? A refer ship, of all the small, engines aft ships they could have done---say a wartime standard 2D (over 100 built), or a 2E (457 built!), they do a 1-off. Taihosan M. is arguably the prettiest merchant in SH4, but there were other small MFMs that would have been far more representative. Also, what's with all the lifeboat davits on well decks? Sigh.
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