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Originally Posted by Baddington_VA
The Coral Sea map is a large expanse of water. In June the sun is high overhead, in December it goes around toward the south. In that way that it doesn't in the real Coral Sea. But it would in the North Atlantic.
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The sun being the wrong place on the Coral Sea map is a bug, and should be reported. The same bug - with winter and summer sun positions being incorrect for the Southern Hemisphere - might also affect other maps which portray the SW Pacific at or below the Equator.
But, the problem with using the Coral Sea map to portray other ocean areas, is that in addition to the longitude and latitude being wrong, the map air temperature is way too warm. It's more suited to being a map of the areas around Guam or the Marianas.
Ignoring longitude, which is currently irrelevant to the game, there should actually be 9 open ocean maps which cover various areas where air operations took place during WW2.
That sounds like a lot of maps, but you'd basically just need one new map texture some tweaking of the map data, and altering the longitude and latitude data on the "knee board" map.
This would be a really basic mod, should anyone be inspired to do it.
I propose:
Arctic/Bering Sea Spring/Fall - Latitude north of 60*N, air temperature of 0*C or lower. Different textures to reflect overcast skies. Represents the ocean off of Murmansk, Iceland, or the Aleutians. Can also represent off-shore regions of the Baltic Sea.
Arctic/Bering Sea Summer - As above, but air temperature 5-10 *C, possibly different textures to reflect overcast skies.
North Atlantic/Pacific Winter - Latitude at about 45*N. Air temperature 0-5 *C. Different textures to reflect overcast skies. Represents the Atlantic ocean off of Europe, the continental US, and the Pacific ocean off of Japan, Korea or northern China.
North Atlantic/Pacific Summer - As above, but air temperature 10-20 *C. Basic sea textures to reflect sunny skies.
Mediterranean Winter - Latitude of approximately 35-40 *N, air temperature approximately 5-15 *C. Possibly overcast sky ocean textures.
Mediterranean Summer - As above, but air temperature 25-35 *C. Can also represent the ocean off of Midway Island and in the Persian Gulf.
Equatorial North Pacific/Atlantic - Latitude 10 *N, air temperature 35-40 *C. Basically, the current Coral Sea map. Mostly represents the sea off of places like Thailand, Vietnam, Guam, the Philippines, the Marianas Islands, and the Marshall Islands, as well as the Bay of Bengal, and the South China Sea.
Equatorial Pacific/Atlantic - 0* N/S, air temperature 35-40 *C. Represents the waters off of Indonesia, New Guinea, the Gilbert Islands, and Nauru, including the Bismarck Sea.
The sunrise and sunset times never change regardless of the the time of year. The sun is always directly overhead.
The night sky map should show the constellations of both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, albeit with constellations like Ursa Major being very close to the horizon, and with Polaris being invisible.
Equatorial South Pacific/Atlantic - The Coral Sea map with sun and sky fixed. Represents the ocean at about 10 *S. Air temperature 35-40 *C. Represents the waters south of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the waters around the New Hebrides Islands, and, of course, the Coral Sea.
The night sky map should represent the stars of the Southern hemisphere.
And, of course, the sun should move slightly to the North during the Southern hemisphere's winter (i.e., the Northern hemisphere's summer).