Ducimus talking about having different reality levels for torpedoes got me thinking.
People have asked for a GWX style supermod for SH4, but personally, I don't like the idea of not having supermod choices. So Ducimus got me thinking, why not ave scaleable levels of reality based on which supermod you choose and some of the changes would be incorparated across the board like they already are. For example, the different "fix-it" mini mods that have found their way into TM, RFB, ROW, RSRD.
So you could have the following
Arcade . . . . . . . . . . . .Stock . . . . . . . . . . .Pretty realistic . . . . . . . .Very realistic
Superboat . . . . . . . . . .Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TM . . . . . . . . . .RFB . .
Not that these currently land as listed (except for stock), so don't holler that TM is not placed properly. This is just to give an idea of what was going through my head. This gives the modders an area to target rather than trying to please everyone, and gives users an idea of which mod they want to try first.
After all, modders will pursue what they prefer for their own gameplay, or there wouldn't be any mods. But that would encourage the sharing of changes that could be scaled for the particular mod. For example, I borrowed Ducimus' faster dive times in TM and slowed them down a bit for RFB, but they are faaster than stock which is too slow. Ducimus can take CCIP's torpedo mod in RFB and scale it back some for TM (or ask CCIP to do so).
This would allow appealing to a wider audience. For example, the superboat mod would have perfect torpedoes that run like a jackrabbit with LOTS of targets so you could get a 12 year old interested in submarine sims. Of course, this would disgust a hard core simmer, but he could go with TM or RFB instead.
Just thinking . . . . need to stop though, I can hear the gears grinding and see the smoke
