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Originally Posted by KaleunMarco
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Thanks and glad you found that post. I have read it and consult it often as a reference, if need some refreshing. What Ducimus said is accurate but of course, a lot has been learned about the sim and sensors, since he created that post. Plus a lot of things have been modded as well. Great basic information though.
Something that does not discuss is how your location on earth (in SH 4) has can affect your experience. I was not sure about this, but when explained by a veteran modder or two and base don my experience in extensive testing, would say yes. I was surprised this was modeled in the sim but have learned that SH 4 is a bit more complex than initially seems.
I have noticed that closer to the equator and just south of equator, player is less likely to encounter a thermal layer and enemy sensors even in earlier part of war tend to be more effective.
As a final test of my mod, I played with a Gato from new construction in early 1942 until end of war, patrolling all different parts of the pacific, transferring around to get a feel for things. First time have ever survived the war in anything "les" than a Balao class in TMO, usually in TMO a Gato and lower just don't have the deep diving ability and strength to stand up in later war. Of course, with my changes I made thing a bit more realistic, while preserving difficulty and challenge, so I survived, but in 1943 when operating out of Brisbane, so patrolling near or just north and south of equater, I was getting beat up every patrol, nearly lost boat twice. Enemy just seemed to be tough, even though still did not have the top notch sensors of late war escorts. Interesting enough, it paralleled history in sorts as I had the USS Drum SS-228, which was out of Brisbane in 1943, was heavily damaged in November 1943, conning tower was cracked during depth charging, leaking and began to buckle on next test dive had to go to Mare Island, CA after to have it replaced. I kept pretty extensive notes and wrote up patrol reports posted in the reports thread and on my pc for reference as well, so could see a pattern when read them, which supports this.
Anyway, in 1944/1945 I was out of Pearl Harbor noticed when patrolling further north such as Sea of Okhotsk or North Cost Honshu, enemy sensors, even best were overall not as effective and more thermal layers were encountered. This spurred some discussion and extensive testing and even more after it was explained to me, seems to fit.
I don't have enough experience in the Atlantic side of things to comment on how this plays out there, as may be modeled differently etc . Long and Lat do effect visual sensors as well have been told and noticed, fog comes in to play as does the light. Ah, the complexities of SH 4 lol.