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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith
Everytime a dispatched sub is spawned it's given the player's sub's current position as waypoint 1. So it automatically has the current position of the player's sub. Your idea with the status report would update waypoint 1 with the player's sub's current position. Which now that I think about it what benefit does this have if I already give the spawned sub the player's current position  |
The benefit is related to immersion: dispatched subs should only know our initial position, unless we send an update with our new coordinates at the cost of having to surface, risking that our message gets intercepted by enemies, being able to send only one update every 2 hours, etc.
A possible workaround for subs having automatically our updated position when they are spawned, is making all of them to be spawned immediately after the convoy report (even if BdU will delay their answer by one or more hours).
They should be spawned at different ranges from our sub though. In this way they would join us at different times, and there would be an higher probability for them to get stopped by something while underway, hence increasing randomnes...
what do you think?