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Originally Posted by KDN77RUS

and how did sailors in real life when you have lost the point after a dive ?

They didn't. That's the point. If you fail with your navigation you don't have a backup GPS. They could use a sextant to get a rough idea, but there were no meter-precision navigation in the 40s.

Originally Posted by Fidd

I think this comes down to a simple issue of dev-time v benefit to the game. "GPS" surfaced position could be done away with, and the necessity of taking noon-day shots with a sextant replacing it, however, "only the tenth-part of a tithe of a half-farthing" of players would know how to use it, and the need for such accuracy is completely redundant given that all we need to do is to remain in visual or hydrophone contact of a convoy, not (as yet) intercept it from position reports hundreds of miles away.

IMHO for now, there are simply dozens of far more worthy tasks for the devs to crack on with...?

Why would we need a sextant? The sextant is probably precise enough to tell you which sea zone you're in. You already know that. Thus, the dev effort here is to add a checkbox "Disable GPS". That's it. I guess that can be done in 10 minutes.