No sonar ping visible?

[Rockin Robbins]

Seems like we've modded so much we're quite willing to toss the baby with the bathwater and then somehow call it realistic. This game is hard-wired in some really unfortunate ways. When the price of eliminating GPS perfect visual sightings is losing aircraft radar and slowing the game so much that you have to pause the game to plot everything by hand you've taken a reasonable compromise and made it into a debacle.

When you're so obsessed about the length of sonar lines fixing the position of targets that you eliminate the lines, you lose the ability to tell the direction of the target. Again, you've taken a defect and converted it into a farce. Of COURSE real subs could determine the direction of sounds. If you can't, you lose the ability to claim realism.

Just don't plot positions based on the length of the sonar lines. Just don't plot positions of visual targets. Take independent sightings, use active sonar and use those. But to lose all senses in the name of realism is a very unfunny joke. Real is isn't.