Some skippers adore patroling empty oceans...others find them a bore.
As I have stated in several posts, you don't have to be stuck with either one. Nope! Not at all.
You can have your seas as empty of shipping as Capt'n Ahabs was of white whales. Or you can have them arriving like ducks in a carnival shooting gallery.
....it is the in between level that has been elusive..enough to hold your interest but not too many so as to become annoying.
(Until 1.5 Gold and that version may just have struck the bargain.
... .we'll see)
I was forever a Kriegsmarine Commander, forged back in AOD, and always while playing SH IV found myself thinking of going home to Kiel. Yet somehow I have stuck with the Pacific and not at all sorry I did.
One patrol is not sufficient clear and convincing evidence.