Cost?

[Sonarman]

Originally Posted by flag4

its like the Park is free to enter, but, you have to pay to go on the rides.

Actually following your fairground analogy it's more like a queue at the rollercoaster where you can choose to wait in a very long slow queue or pay to be in the express lane. The devs have stated that all upgrades in the game are available through hard slog (grind) or you can pay to quickly obtain items. Unfortunately this will result in a rich/poor divide in the game but since we are all on the same side (German) it won't matter that much.

Whilst this is not the full on sim most of us want at least it is something new and quite different offering a new higher level perspective on the u-boat war.