I went ahead and tried my hand at my first patrol tonight, in an S-18 boat out of Cavite. It abruptly ended when the game CTDd on me when trying to get a range fix on a Japanese DD.
Anyways, one thing tonight which really bothered me was how the game doesn't drop down to 1x time compression whenever the lookout crew spots a ship. By the time I manually get the game back down to real time, at least 30 minutes of real time have passed, and the ship is long gone. I have not modded my time compression settings at all. Is this something that other people are experiencing?