Depth accuracy?

[Beardmoresam]

Hi guys, does anyone know just how accurate the game designers did the depth for coastal waters? or did they make up their own using real charts as a rough guide?

Thanks, Sam.

[ColonelSandersLite]

Not very. They probably used some very low resolution they got from some geo mapping source or other, but it is *very* low res.

[BigWalleye]

If they were at all accurate, it would be very ahistorical. US Navy issue maps of the South Pacific and Asian coastal waters often dated back to the 19th Century.

[ColonelSandersLite]

It's not the charts that are inaccurate, but the game world.

Correct would be an accurate game world with inaccurate charts, but instead we get an inaccurate game world with precisely accurate charts.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by ColonelSandersLite

It's not the charts that are inaccurate, but the game world.

Correct would be an accurate game world with inaccurate charts, but instead we get an inaccurate game world with precisely accurate charts.

I never thought of it that way, but you are absolutely right!

Originally Posted by Beardmoresam

Hi guys, does anyone know just how accurate the game designers did the depth for coastal waters? or did they make up their own using real charts as a rough guide?

Thanks, Sam.

the devs werent allowed to be completely accurate because of copywrite laws and such so the game maps were distorted on purpose to avoid legal troubles. for the same reasons i believe other aspects of the game are very close to being accurate but then they were equally distorted so as to avoid claims they used someones charts.

the devs tried to make these sh games as accurate and realistic as they could when it comes to numbers and data but certain things are done wrong on purpose not by accident. lawyers run the world so it is what it is.

[Bilge_Rat]

The charts used in WW2, especially in the Pacific were notoriously bad.

In the Solomons especially, the U.S. Navy relied on British Admiralty post WW1 maps which were themselves almost entirely based on maps by a 18th century french explorer.

For example, it turns out Bougainville's position was 8 miles off. On the day of the invasion of the island, I read an anecdote that the admiral in charge, exasperated that they were running late and that he still could not see the island asked the navigator what their position was, to which the navigator replied: "Sir, we are three miles inland."

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

the admiral in charge, exasperated that they were running late and that he still could not see the island asked the navigator what their position was, to which the navigator replied: "Sir, we are three miles inland."