Kill the clipboard!

[DeepSix]

Please! That blasted clipboard takes 3 full minutes to load on a 2.4 CoreDuo with 2 gigs of RAM and 2 7900 GTX cards - what is going on here? Meanwhile, Harry James is playing "Ciribiri- ciribiri- ciribiri- ciribiri- ciribiribin" while the image loads.

Yeah, I'm whining a little bit, here, but only because the problem is ridiculous enough to deserve it. For God's sake, most of what's on the clipboard is merely a repetition of what you can already read in the dialog box -- "Convoy at long/lat...." etc.

Why not do away with the convoy sightings messages on the clipboard; save it for Fox and PacNews and Ultra instead -- the more unusual messages, in other words.

While I'm on it -- part of the frustration with the clipboard is that so many of these messages are for stuff going on far, far away from wherever I happen to be. For instance, I get sent to the Java Sea (from Pearl Harbor, no less, which is also a bit off, IMO), and once I'm there I get a 3-minute wait to learn that my presence is strongly desired off Midway Island. Well I'm just as sorry as I can be, but I'm disinclined to acquiesce to that request. I'm a little busy right now, because I'm out of torpedoes and still have 1000 miles to go before I get to a friendly gas station.

Ok, 'nuff complaining. I just think the game could be that much better.

1. Lose the duplicate messages on the clipboard since they're already in the dialog box.
2. For the early war period, divide the Pacific into historically realistic command areas - if you operate from Pearl, you spend most of your time off the home islands. You don't get a patrol assignment that's farther than the gas tank will allow. You can top off at Midway (as was done historically), but you should also be able to make it back at least that far at 2/3 speed (somebody correct me if I'm wrong on that). If you operate from Manila/Soerabaja/Australia, you patrol the DEI and roughly as far up as the Philippines. Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the division of command was between the Philippines and the Home Islands.

Just my opinions, here; I know there's a lot to work on for upcoming patches, but I figured I post because to my mind this is one incredible nuisance that could easily be fixed.