What do you guys think a good patrol duration and radius should be?
I am going to go through the patrols at some point, and when I do I will likely (where appropriate):
1. Increase the patrol radius for many patrols.
2. Mention the patrol radius in the orders for the patrol.
3. Increase the patrol duration from 2 days, to maybe a week or more.
4. Mention the specific time on station from #3 in the orders.
5. Decrease the tonnage required for success.
6. Dump all requirements to only sink merchants, didn't happen. RL US subs sank warships wherever possible.
On number 5, I'm not one who thinks patrols should always be "successful" in that regard. I see meeting the tonnage level as "extra" sucess. So being on station, is basic success, then sinking SOMETHING gets you additional success. I'm open to anyone's take on this, frankly. I ignore renown entirely. I don't even promote my crew at this point (maybe when/if someone makes it so 25-33% of my crew gets randomly transferred I'll bother).
the whole renown thing is a can of worms. Ideally, i want to make even the mk14 fish have a cost. Of course I also want to mod in a mine so we can have mining missions.
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