GWX new navigation tool

[Kaleun_Saxi]

Ahoy Kaleuns,

I'm a GWX newbie, am on my first career patrol in GWX.

Two things are quite annoying to me:

1) I'm in early 1939, and every 2 minutes a new radio message is coming in describing the German successes in the army assault on Poland. It's nice that my crew members know what's going on, but when I'm sailing the sees it's annoying that traveling at 512x speed is permanently interrupted by 'income message' alerts.

Okay, I can take the radio man off work to prevent these alerts, but then I can't receive important BdU messages.

My question is: Is the number of radio messages a day constantly staying the same throughout the year, or is this just in the first few days / month that high? Is there a way to take the alerts off even when the radio man is at work?

2) GWX introduces a new navigation tool on the navigation map when you're zooming in high (sorry, don't know the English name for that), that circular thing showing distances and bearings. It might be useful for plotting torpedo courses, but personally, I dislike it because you can't really make out ships etc. when they are underneath that tool. Especially harbor raids are difficult.

Is there a way to turn this tool off? I found no hints in the GWX manual to that... :hmm:

Otherwise the GWX is really nice, though things are really really difficult now, especially harbour raids on silent running, because your boat tends to drop out of the sea so that enemies can see you... and also, it slows my machine really down, external views are only possible at max 4x speed, I should consider another gig of ram or a better graphics card...