[happymeal2]

It would have to model a realistic crew. Not just making the ship faster or slower, but things like crew movement, watch switching, maybe assistance from the navigation officer with plotting courses, and assistance from the weapons officer when planning attacks (option for this? some people like doing it themselves). Point being, skippers didnt do this all themselves, although im sure they would be allowed to if they wanted.

Realistic damage if possible. Health bars in video games annoy me more than anything else that has ever existed.

As a general reccomendation, go through some of the popular mods and pick some of the well-liked features out of there. Many of those mods do a very good job of filling in the gaps in the game with things that people want and make it better in doing so. Not to mention making it more fun.

Real subs and their upgrades would always be great, ubi did it with the games, where they had upgrades to the subs - this would definitely be something to be carried over.

Realistic traffic for shipping and warships, as well as possible battles if it could be pulled off, would be a massive bonus. Think Run Silent Run Deep from SH4.

Convoys and Task Forces need to be not stupid, ive attacked a few convoys that just continue going in straight lines even though im sitting there shelling a ship into pieces. There are mods that fix this, but ideally mods shouldnt have to.

Most importantly, make it moddable. This way, if assistance is required making the game or part of... Well, theres a massive amount of geniuses here that can pull off just about anything given the proper time. If it is easily moddable then if something doesnt go right it can be fixed easily as well.

Thats it for now, im sure ill come up with others. Glad to see theres a will in someone to get a project like this started, certainly not an easy task.