no world map in SH4???

[Garrincha]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Bigger is not always necessarily better. If the maps are smaller and split into operational areas (as they were in the original Silent Hunter) it might actually give us much greater detail. Instead of generic ports we may have a more accurate representation of the actual cities and harbours. And smaller more focussed charts may allow for the inclusion of the depth datum which was absent from the charts in SH3.

True, bigger is almost always never better! But do you really believe that if we have operational areas like the philippines, marshalls, gilberts, dutch indies, formosa, yellow sea, japan, korea, marianas, solomons, midway, wake and hawaii... and for the sake of argument, i'm not mentioning ceylon, singapore, the US west coast, australia and all other possible areas... That adding open ocean, which doesn't take any extra resources in development, will lower the detail in named areas.

To be reasonable: Which harbors do we actually want to be realistic. 1) the harbors we all know in our local area. 2) the harbors which are important in gameplay (historical battles etc)

So if they reconstruct Pearl, Tokyo, Manila, Perth, Singapore, Truk, Rabaul, etc... That's fine... The rest can be generic...(the only thing that bothered me in SH3 wasthe positioning of Rotterdam, and the fact that the reclaimed land in the Netherlands that was claimed after WW2 ended is already on the map...)

Depth charts can be imported just like the map in SH3...In real life: in the 40s large areas of the oceans where not charted... Sure, generic depth was known, but only after the use of radar satellites we have precise charts of the globe... Detailed maps of coasts where still considered intellegence... Especially in rarely sailed parts of the pacific...

As said, i prefer a global map, with dynamic campaigning... Send me on lifegaurd duty to Iwo Jima, but i will go to the inland sea to find some shipping "on the way home"...

cheers,
G