A few more questions...

[Naga]

Hello again. I'm still on my first playthrough and have a few questions. A few pertinent bits of information: Mid 1942, Type VIIC, assigned to flotilla that leaves out of Lorient, I tend to follow the orders given (I.E. patrol a given area, which tend to be north of England, or near the equator, off the west coast of Africa) and not do much exploring.

1. I have found that I am running into fewer and fewer merchant ships, or at least the map updates with the red box and heading are no longer appearing with as much frequency. Could this be a result of me using 1024x time compression? How do I go about making these appear more often?

2. Do the contacts, particularly large convoys, appear randomly, or do they follow assigned routes? If they follow assigned routes, is there somewhere that these routes are listed? Could someone give me some lucrative routes with approximate years of activity for those routes?

That's it for now. I'm sure I will have more soon. Thanks for any information. This community provides some of the best support out of any game community I have ever seen.