Feeling lonely in the Pacific

Foxendown · 02-15-09, 06:15 PM

I recently bought a new rig so have at last been able to run SH4. I've had a very happy time up to now playing the superb SH3 GWX on my old PC. SH4 looks truly amazing but my only problem with it is that the shipping, enemy and friendly, seems so sparse compared with SH3. I started a career in Dec 1941 and have hung around shipping lanes with little success. I've started to miss my Atlantic career when I loitered off the Canaries and encountered numerous convoys with tough escorts-dangerous but lucrative. In search of more action, I've even done insane things like sailing on the surface down the Japanese coast in broad daylight-nothing happened-no air attacks or warships to challenge me. I've even gone right into a Japanese base submerged-it seems too easy to go in and leave undetected and there was only one warship to avoid there anyway. BTW it seems odd to me that a newly appointed submarine commander would be given a special mission like inserting an agent on the enemy coast-I would have expected that type of mission to occur later in your career, but perhaps that's historically accurate. Pearl Harbor has enough ships to look right but Midway had about 6, Surabaya 3 and Balikpapan was empty. It's early days of course, I've only just started, perhaps it builds up. Also I have RFB installed and I believe this reduces traffic to realistic levels which are necessarily lower than in the Atlantic and Med. I'd be grateful or any advice on offer. I'd really like to get into this sim the way I got into SH3.

02-15-09, 06:15 PM	#1
Foxendown Bosun Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 68 Downloads: 79 Uploads: 0	Feeling lonely in the Pacific I recently bought a new rig so have at last been able to run SH4. I've had a very happy time up to now playing the superb SH3 GWX on my old PC. SH4 looks truly amazing but my only problem with it is that the shipping, enemy and friendly, seems so sparse compared with SH3. I started a career in Dec 1941 and have hung around shipping lanes with little success. I've started to miss my Atlantic career when I loitered off the Canaries and encountered numerous convoys with tough escorts-dangerous but lucrative. In search of more action, I've even done insane things like sailing on the surface down the Japanese coast in broad daylight-nothing happened-no air attacks or warships to challenge me. I've even gone right into a Japanese base submerged-it seems too easy to go in and leave undetected and there was only one warship to avoid there anyway. BTW it seems odd to me that a newly appointed submarine commander would be given a special mission like inserting an agent on the enemy coast-I would have expected that type of mission to occur later in your career, but perhaps that's historically accurate. Pearl Harbor has enough ships to look right but Midway had about 6, Surabaya 3 and Balikpapan was empty. It's early days of course, I've only just started, perhaps it builds up. Also I have RFB installed and I believe this reduces traffic to realistic levels which are necessarily lower than in the Atlantic and Med. I'd be grateful or any advice on offer. I'd really like to get into this sim the way I got into SH3.