I don't expect 100%, I don't think anyone does. The mere addition of the player into the world changes history. That said, some basic attention to historical detail is important for a number of reasons. Having 20X the proper number of DDs in the game makes every convoy the best defended convoy (aside from invasion forces) in the whole war. It just feels wrong.
I'm playing Freemantle based '42 campaign right now. I forgot to alter the 42b files, so I just sank Yamato. I keep seeing these huge TFs down near the Celebes and I know they shouldn't be there. It depends on the player's area of historical interest, but if you played SH3 and saw the Normandy invasion force in the channel in the wrong month of the wrong year, you'd instantly feel like someone didn't do their homework.
As for the ports, those comments were from me. I stand by them. I didn't point out some nitty gritty issues with Pearl Harbor---a major, industrialized port---I pointed out that they should DELETE their port object(s) from a few poerts that should have NOTHING there. Not a hard change, I'm not asking for an artist to create the perfect port for Freemantle, all I wanna see there is a Sub tender and a raft of subs. Ditto Midway. Honaria simply didn't exist as a city in WW2, putting a port there makes Guadalcanal look totally wrong to anyone who has read anythign about it (not sure there is much of a port there NOW, frankly). So if I had picked on them for the wrong color roofing tiles, or the cranes were 10m too tall, etc, you'd have a point, but they have a couple standard ports they drop on the map, removing them from places where they don't belong is likely as simple as clicking them and hitting the delete key (like it would be in the mission builder).
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