I suppose the fair thing to do would be to play in real time but catch up with time compression the time you spent far from your PC, so every real life day is a game day....:hmm: A one month patrol per real month of life does not sound bad at all, specially if you consider that you will "skip" the 28 days in base...or will you be able to be without playing SH3 28 days while your U-Boot is virtually refitted?