Traveller's mod is poorly executed and has tons of bugs. OTC is based on a ridiculous premise: that it was possible to know every ship on the ocean, regardless of nation, and to know precise data for each ship.
The fact was our databases were even less accurate than the game database. The errors are different when comparing the two but at least we get the "benefit" of laboring under the same problem the sub skippers did: bad info in the identification manual. OTC eliminates the truth entirely there on the premise that it's not fair if we miss a target and it's not our fault. The premise is faulty so the conclusion, OTC, is faulty also.
The optical correction part of OTC is excellent, reasonable, historical and shoud be available for people to use. But it is not. You have to destroy the faulty ID data in order to use it. You then have SuperSub and the real submarines didn't even come close to that.
Because modders didn't confine their mods to single effects, we are denied the good things they did unless we also adopt the bad things they did.
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