[Toxiclad]

Yes, it lacks of historical accuracy. Personally I wish for more crew member background stories and maybe some mini games like card games or something like that to improve the relationship with your crew members on a long cruise as an example. I know these points maybe are not important right now, but I'd like to see this stuff in the future. But although there is a lot of work ahead for the devs I hope that it will be successful, because like you said there aren't a lot of subsims on the market.

Add: I just found out the recruits kinda have a back story, I just don't know if this affects their skills