The Silent Hunter IV (Pacific Campaign) WISH-LIST

[Captain Vlad]

1> Improved Dynamic Campaign. Plenty of people have already mentioned potential improvments, such as special missions being assigned during a patrol. I want that to happen. Give me some Marine Raiders to drop off occasionally, a convent full of nuns to evacuate out of the path of the Japanese advance, pilots to rescue, harbors to recon, etc, etc, etc.

2> More sub customization options. All the extra gear you could buy in SH III? Keep that, but toss in paint schemes (a lot of sub skippers fiddled with that), warflags, and on subs with more than one spot to mount a deck gun, let us decide where to put it.

3> More streamlined crew management...but don't get rid of it. Let us set watch rotations and such. Adding more 'attributes' to the crewmen as someone else suggested would be nice too.

4> Subs, subs, subs. I'd love a chance to play the Japanese, but if it's Allied only, I'd like to take a Brit or Dutch sub to sea, and I want a full selection of US boats to choose from. I also wouldn't mind being stalked by an IJN sub or raising my periscope to discover my enemy counterpart cruising along on the surface...

5> More traffic. Yeah, I know a lot of people play with the reduced traffic mod, but it seems to me that the ocean should have more activity in certain areas. When I hug the coast of Britain and don't even see a fishing boat, somethings out of whack...throw in the inter-island traffic such as barges and sampans and such.

6> More immersion. The radio stuff needs to be improved over SH III. Send us messages that were historically sent, updates on the status of the war, news from home, etc. Have the option to turn this off, I suppose, but please...put it in.

And just for a small thing I'd love to see...

7> More guns on the boat. US Boats often carried small arms for supplemental firepower. Lemme set the BARs up on the conning tower so I can pump more tracers into patrol boats and other small nuisances.