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

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Originally Posted by tater

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.

If you think balloons on your map with accurate real time information along with the type of ship with a radius showing its sensor range is realistic, well than, what can I do but laugh. You crazy people are so skilled but hardly no how to mark a contact on a map when you see it. Sad really, IMO anyone playing with these updates on sucks hard at this game ;]