[REQ]'No Map-Contact Updates' done properly

[tater]

Originally Posted by ddrgn

How any serious subsimmer could play with map contact updates on is well beyond me.....

How any serious subsimmer could think that the "contacts off" paradigm is even remotely realistic is beyond me.

OP is right.

The plotting should be done by the plotter. Are you the captain, or some junior officer? Which is it?

The player should make observations, and those observations should be plotted on the map FOR HIM BY HIS CREW. Guess what, he doesn't brew his own coffee, either.

If you "mark" a target without taking a proper range, the bearing should be drawn out as a line with the option for the skipper to add a guessed range, aob, etc.

If you take a range, then the bearing line gets laid, then a point placed for the target. Again, aob, speed, heading etc can be added by the skipper as an optional addition.

On a 2d or further observation, your crew (as their training taught them) connects the dots, and since they were also properly trained to use a watch, they now also have the speed.

That is realistic. Neither Silent Hunter option is realistic.