[The General]

Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

• Ships don't get magically repaired when they leave your visual range.
• Ships, planes, and other military units do fight when encountering each others outside of your range (if CPU-power becomes an issue, just randomly generate an outcome, like "ship a destroyed", "ship a crippled, ship b driven off", and so on).
• Ships that change their aganda when something happens (heads to closest friendly port when damaged, calls tug when crippled, alerts hospital ship when going down, intercepts contacts, and so on). Picture GTA, with ambulances rescuing wounded and fire trucks extinguishing fires.

I'd like to be able to run Silent Hunter IV at full time-compression in the background. Then whenever something happens, it reverts to either pause or 1x time-compression, and this little note in the lower-right corner of your screen tells you that a ship's been spotted, your waypoints have been reached, your objectives have been finished, etc.

I like your ideas here but I have a feeling that we'll have to wait 'til at least Silent Hunter V before we get this stuff. But it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil right?