When you spot something hit the backspace key, (pause) - you can then press the '+' key to advance to x1 normal time...much better than trying to halve speed repeatedly from a high compression rate. Worth noting also is that when you crew spot a plane and you get that popup offering a "dive to PD, maintain course, or engage the blighter" the game is still running while you decide which to click.
On time compression here's a wierd thing - there's a problem with slow updates, I think probably related to the 'draggy mouse' issue. If you are on a high time compression and the stopwatch is advancing in a very jerky manner, then higher compression rates can run slower than lower ones. I timed runs at 'Standard Speed' on one game, running for a minute of real time at 4096 and 1024, checking against the distance to waypoint on the map. At 1024 grpahics were smooth, at 4096 jerky - not usually so, I might add, but this whole mission had been at snails like pace so I was investigating all sorts to try to sort this out.
At 1024, in 1 minute, my boat covered twice the distance that it did at 4096... given the 2/3 speed needed to cover long transits my trip Pearl-China took rather a lot of real time. Luckily not seen in my current mission, which is to go back to the same bit of China and drop another spy off, ie same mission as previous one.
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