[Stealhead]

I fully agree with Magic your duty is destroy enemy shipping therefore one should use the tools at hand to maximum effect by staying in one spot your are adding the Japanese because now they just need to have the poor luck to come to you by being mobile they now must deal with the bad luck of being within 200 miles of you.I think like a tiger each tiger has a large bit of land that is his and he roams it constantly.

Considering that all of the most successful US Navy submarine captains all firmly believed in actively patrolling or "dynamically" searching it seems to me that it is the best method.Why sit in one spot and wait when you are very likely missing something 30 miles away that is not headed in your direction.I have never had fuel consumption issues myself with various versions of the game even if having to leave a dry area.I would say in most cases performing an active search in the typical "patrol this area for X hours" and covering a 100-120 miles radius I very rarely wind up not finding a ship or ships often I will find a convoy attack it and move on and wind up finding and hitting another convoy 40 or 50 miles and few hours searching later.Seems to me by sitting in one spot you are greatly lowering the odds of finding a ship unless you knew for certain that something was going to pass your position which in most SH4 missions you do not.I find a known lane and go hunting.If you ever read "Thunder Below" by Gene Fluckey you will be firmly convinced how much more effective it is to actively search but all the successful skipper where like minded they would have felt that being static and conserving fuel would be counter productive to searching the greatest area and therefore increasing your of finding ships which of course is the primary mission to seek out and destroy enemy shipping.