[REL] U-boat Historical Specifications (UHS)

[jwilliams]

Originally Posted by ddrgn

I tested this a while ago when changing the setting by seeing how far my boat would go just loading a single mission and letting it run at 8 knots, I did get approximately what I set the max ranges too (historic).... I haven't had any problems reported and considering MO is packed with those original UHS settings, I don't think it has been a problem. Best economy would be 7-8 knots still....

If you have any adverse effects with this please let me know!

Thanks for the quick reply...

It's not that the uboat doesn't get the correct range. It's that the earth in SH is much larger the further north or south you are compared to real.

e.g. Breast, France to Boston, USA is over 10,000 Km in Silent Hunter, but is only about 6,000 Km along the real life Great Circle.

This is because SH is played on a Mercator projection of the world, where the shortest distance between two points is a loxodrome, or a line of constant heading, however the shortest distance between two points on the surface of the earth is a Great Circle. This results in increasing map scale in SH as you go further from the equator.