1. This is a problem with the game. While you are on patrol, the home port receives the same bad weather you encounter. "Docked" ships drift with the "wind", and smack into each other and the docks, plus, the moving patrol ships will sometimes have said drifting ships in their paths, and the collision avoidance does not do a good job... So the livelier a modder attempts to make a base, the more often that happens. But there was an air raid there... yeah, that's the ticket yeah... that's it... an air raid, yeah...
2. The MS9 scheme was on most subs until 1944, even though the MS32/33 was authorized in 1943. Paint was almost a luxury item at the time... yeah, that's the ticket...
3. Well, there were minefield maps made as the information came in from several sources, but we have not been able to find even somewhat accurate information. Also, we have tried to "draw" red boxes and lines where minefields might be found and have them show on the NavMap, but it reminds me too much of a kindergarten drawing I did in 1962... worse than stick figure people... sigh - If we can, we'll attempt to "draw" a maps that would be a pull-out drawing. In the meantime, if you want to "cheat", open the Mission Editor (Sh4MissionEditor.exe) and navigate into the data campaigns campaign folder, and open "Jap_Minefields.mis" file, and you can see where they are. As mentioned, the US commanders would have had close to that same information, though not always in a timely manner, since the Japanese did move the fields at times, and add to others, especially if they thought the US was going to make a move on a location, such as Okinawa seemed a logical place to protect after the Philippines, but especially after Iwo Jima.
4. Medals are nothing but decoration basically. It looks like the original intention was to have it improve boat morale, but it does not appear to be implemented. After each patrol when you dock and are back in the office, if you go to your crew page, you can click on the various little icons in the upper left, and award promotions and medals to your crew. Trying to remember who was on duty during any given attack can be problematic (for my brain), so I usually pepper them around throughout the boat.
