[tater]

While the varied mission types in SH4 are great, like many things in game they are not well thought out. Some can be fixed, others, dunno, guess we are stuck with some.

I was looking at ways to limit torpedos, for example. One way was via cost in renown. The problem is that all torpedos seem to come in the same numbers at port, and I can't figure out how to control it. Ideally patrol objective could control torpedo availability/cost, sadly this isn't the case.

One thought I have experimented with was to make the mk10 and mk14 torpedos cost enough that you need a sinking or 2 to fill the boat up early war (assuming you expended all or most of your fish on patrol). I thought that the renown reward for such supply missions could have enough points to offset the reduction in torpedos. A player would have to then click the map to see his mission, then instead of leaving port, go back to the office, and dump all his torpedos except those in the tubes (check missions FIRST before reloading). If torpedos are set to cost 50 each, say, then a supply mission would get you 800 points, enough for 16 toropedos. A lot has to be the player wanting historical limitations.

We need almost all of the the special missions to disappear for the Asiatic Fleet before they move to Freemantle/Brisbane. Then they need to go to the Philipines or even the Slot (coastwatchers). The PH boats need early special missions from PH to Bataan. All the missions to drop spies in Japan need to go away, a few might be changed to China instead I guess (maybe not historical, but also not rediculous like dropping spies in major jap ports).

All the photo recon missions need to be changed. Photo recon wasn't done on moving targets like ships (even at anchor), it was done on beaches, etc, for invasions. That'll require making some "ship" objects that can be placed so that there is a target for photography that aren't ships. Perhaps things like beach obstacles that can sit in the water as "anchored" ships?