New and Lost and Hungry

[Sailor Steve]

WELCOME ABOARD!

Originally Posted by Ethaninja

Question Numero 2: During a campaign mission, I get lots of radio reports. Do they mean anything? Are they side quests, or are they just for show or something?

Depends on what they say. If they tell you to do something, you might want to think about doing it. If they say there's a task force or convoy at such-and-such location, you don't have to go there, but if it's fairly close by you'll improve your chances for tonnage by doing so. Of course you'll also improve your chances for getting killed, but hey, this is war - no pain, no gain; no guts, no glory; no onions, no pickles, no mustard...wait, what?

And last but not least, 3: What would be the average time it takes for you to complete a mission? Because it took me at least 10 mins to 30 just to get from Western Aussie to Sydney. Am I doing things right? (Plotting a path, setting to Ahead Flank, and pressing Numpad + so that I can get time to speed up as fast as possible)?

As sub sim is not an arcade game. It took them weeks to get anywhere in real life, and it can take hours to get anywhere in this game. In Op Monsun as well as SH3 there are people who complain about the time it takes to transit the Kiel Canal - in real life it was much shorter, but in the game the "When Near Land" TC constraint makes it take longer than going around Denmark! As Torplexed said, you want to set the most economic speed (I use Ahead Standard, as it's close enough to 9 knots for me) and then all the Time Compression I want.

Did you know that there are people who play the whole patrol in real time? Masochists, every one of them.