When did he write this? February of 2007? What is the purpose of the post? Display of knowledge of antique subsims? Sounds like you need to buy yourself an Apple ][+ and knock yourself out with an original copy of Silent Service.
Personally, on the Kraken, it is stupid to fight planes as they have all the advantage, DDs attack with ferocity that usually means you have to fight them before you get to the convoy. Often a convoy battle devolves into a night of repeated hit and runs attempting to get the escorts on one side while I attack the other.
The amount of air cover is not unrealistic. Reading the real mission reports reveals air cover by radar equipped Japanese planes in coordination with radar equipped escorts that turned our subs from hunter into hunted. Only in comparison with antique games does SH4 have "too much air cover." Fluckey's logs reveal that diving a dozen times a day was not unusual. Even in stock SH4 I have not see planes come from nowhere. You also forget aircraft carriers as sources of planes.
Convoys often scattered when attacked in Japanese waters. Continuing to operate as a unit was the exception, not the rule. Sometimes that also happens in SH4. There is a plausible range of convoy reactions.
In hundreds of save games under all conditions I have not had ships or convoys vanish. I have never lost a save. The sun comes up on schedule every day. Your chart wouldn't help without doing the math to find local time sunrise anyway. The antique games didn't take local time into account. You miss their defects, not their reality.
Weather reports are available on demand from your crew.
I could go on and on, but I won't. I so wanted to respond to an intelligent and focused post by someone looking for the way to make this superior new sim work well. I spent twice as many words on this nonsense as I usually do responding to real problems. If my kid didn't find you amusing you would be on eBay right now.:rotfl:
I hope others enjoy the game as much as I do. I'm here to see if I can make that happen. For many, I've been able to make a difference. For some, nothing can help.
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