So basically, you could sail the PoR into either port, but not actually do anything useful with it there (like loading cars or passengers for example)?
But it is nice that we now have a the choice to do along crossing. I know it's not everyones idea of fun but think of it this way there are flight simmmers that do 10hour flights and they have nothing but sky to look at and have nothing to do as the plane flys itself so at least spending just over a hour doing this is not as bad as that.
32 hours, PBY-5, Perth, Australia to Colombo, Sri Lanka, recreating "the flight of the double sunrise" route flown by Quantas every week from June '43 to July '45. 3600nm and no (reliable) autopilot. Or GPS. Or radio. Had a friend stand in as copilot and flew on shifts.
Also flew around the world in a Cessna Caravan with extended fueltanks, landing at least once in every country. Took nearly a year with a little flying every evening. Was often caught during lunch breaks with approach maps and load balance sheets.
I'm for one is looking forward to the ability to actually go from somewhere to somewhere else without making it into a mission and seeing loading screens. I am not familiar with the area, but I would assume that it requires at least a minimum of navigation to hit the harbor entrance dead on when taking out a course after setting out from the opposite side? Would probably be more worse if we had currents and winds shifting us about making us follow a course rather than just a heading (you really dont want to mix those up on a long trip..).
I would also like to see some AI traffic during the crossing. Depending on rendering distance, you could get away with only rendering 10-15 ships
at one time and still experience a crowded shipping lane. Like in GTA, where the city appears full of cars, but in fact it only actually renders the cars you can see.
It would aslo be nice with an authentic D-C ferry of course, even though I'm more of a cruiser than a working person.
