I understand that in HC, the water depth is determined by the further away it is from land, the more deep of the water is.

 

I was looking at the red sea (middle east) for example, and I felt that the depth fall too quickly to the vdeep... Then I look at the depth around Great Britain also, I felt the same thing where the vdeep is a bit too close to the land..

 

Just curious on this, is there some consideration to change the calculation on depths--move it further from land?

 

Not sure what everyone's thought on this is... maybe it's just me : )

I understand that in HC, the water depth is determined by the further away it is from land, the more deep of the water is. I was looking at the red sea (middle east) for example, and I felt that the depth fall too quickly to the vdeep... Then I look at the depth around Great Britain also, I felt the same thing where the vdeep is a bit too close to the land.. Just curious on this, is there some consideration to change the calculation on depths--move it further from land? Not sure what everyone's thought on this is... maybe it's just me : )

 

I would love to have more flexibility in the way ocean depths are modeled. To recap, the depths are reflected as follows:

 

Surfaced

Periscope (1-50 m)

Shallow (50 m to the Layer)

Intermediate (Layer to 300 m)

Deep (300 to 600 m)

Very deep (600+ m)

 

For me, however, its not so much that VDeep should be further away (though this is obviously preferable in some shallow areas like the Persian Gulf, for example), but that you should be able to get a submarine (and a ship, for that matter) much closer to land than you currently are able. This would greatly improve navigability in confined waters and within archipelagos.

 

I would like to see the depth rating 'Periscope' pushed right up to the beach.

 

Unfortunately, modifying the depth model is a large undertaking and for now remains a "Wish List" feature.

I understand that in HC, the water depth is determined by the further away it is from land, the more deep of the water is.

 

I was looking at the red sea (middle east) for example, and I felt that the depth fall too quickly to the vdeep... Then I look at the depth around Great Britain also, I felt the same thing where the vdeep is a bit too close to the land..

 

Just curious on this, is there some consideration to change the calculation on depths--move it further from land?

 

Not sure what everyone's thought on this is... maybe it's just me : )

 

I would not consider making existing depths shallower for fear of breaking existing scenarios. Bret McKee, one of the genius HC2002/HC Gold/HC WestPac programmers, wrote a goodly amount of elevation code that we'll have to try some day. I expect that day is far off. As for Brad's suggestion of making existing depths deeper; that could be done without breaking scenarios but I still consider it unlikely to happen anytime soon.