The usage of the TC

Hi again...

This qeustion have already been discussed before I guess, but anyway...
I´ve been playing/simming SH4 for a while now, crisscrossing the Pacific and learned a lot about subs, WW2 history and the game itself. Yes, I´m making slow progress intercepting Convoys, manual targeting and sometimes even hitting a boat with my torps. I enjoyed hours and even days of real time cruising, feeling like a hardcore simmer and a bit like a subcaptain aswell. Listening to Glenn Miller on the grammophon and watch the beauty of ROW. I sometimes left my computer on during the nights and let the sub rest submerged or go ahead 1/4. (When I used the TC I felt like I was cheating). Some of my non subsimming Quakeplaying friends said; - Isn´t it boring, why do you not timecompress the boat through the game. How can it be fun looking at an empty ocean for hours and perhaps dive ocasionally for aeroplanes???

Yes I explained; - This is the "real" submariners style, I wanna do it the right way. This is about getting close to a psychological immersion; feeling like you actaully are there.

But, That was then... Now I TC me cross the water in an accelerating rate to and from patrol areas and only stops If I´m lucky a run into something Japanese to sink. Am I getting bored of this game? Yes I must admit, doing it the hardway was fun for start, but when you crisscrossing the Pacific Ocean over and over again it isn´t funny anymore. Then the TC comes in handy. It´s a blessed thing when you don´t gets any shipcontacts in your assigned patrol area and frustrated move on to the next one. Heck, I have even TC me out of depthcharges attacks going slow and silent and deep. Or when You finishied all the sinking up in EastchinaSea and your base Freemantle in Australia is waiting for you....

So the TC isn´t so bad after all, sooner or later you´ll use it to some extend I think