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Originally Posted by Drebbel
And what about the location of the flag. Did WWII Jap ships realy fly it from their highest point ?
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I don't know about that.
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Originally Posted by Drebbel
I am sure the dev-team has made these sacrifices to reality to improve game play. After all the only thing we have to ID our friends/foes is that flag. They ships do not have names on their bow, or do they ?
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I respectfully disagree. You don't need to get close enough to read her nameplate! Just close enough to make out the (realistically sized) flag - remember you have some good optics and magnification to do this - and/or based on your tactical situation and the ship type, make a decision of whether to engage or not, i.e. you're in the Bungo Suido, and there's a destroyer coming at you at flank speed, she's probably not a friendly. I don't need a visual on her flag to know that she's Japanese. Nor do I need one if I'm in a known Japanese shipping lane, well beyond friendly territory, and I see a convoy of merchants escorted by ASW ships with the low, sweeping lines of Japanese warships heading for Japan. Or a warship convoy with the characteristic "Pagoda" superstructures. Seeing a flag is a non-issue.
On the other hand, if I'm patrolling at twilight in the Solomons in 1942, I had better be very sure about who I'm shooting at. This is realism in the sim. Visual ship recognition was a very big part of the submarine trade in WWII. These huge flags - might as well just highlight all of the bad guys with a red box around the ship, and a blue box for the good guys. To me this just really "dumbs down" the sim in a very negative and unneccessary way. Just my opinion. Maybe others will love the big flags. I will see if I can change this myself, or lobby for someone else who is smarter to do so if I can't.
Didn't we do this in SH III?
Thanks,
Mylander