An interesting topic and something I may try in the future. But for me at the moment I play SH3 to ultimately sink ships. I research U-Boat history and tactics, I have added mods to the game (mainly for eye candy), and I try and incorporate all of this into the game as my immersion.
Within a patrol I don't go above 512 TC as I want to fast forward to some action...it's a game. My life is fairly boring enough sometimes to voluntarily sit in front of a monitor reading a book waiting for something to happen.
However, after reading Golden Rivet's post I can understand the attraction. Maybe when I've retired I will try a 1x patrol?
Incidentally I stumbled across this 'Let's Play' with SH4 whilst trying to find something to watch on YouTube a couple of months ago: "Magellan's Route - circumnavigate in real time." The first episode was published on 23 Dec 2013, and DangerDeadpan is still travelling, judging by his latest upload dated 3 Feb 2016. I hope he won't mind me linking his 'Our Journey Begins'. Who knows readers might like to follow it.
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