VonGlaus
02-09-09, 01:33 AM
I did search for "alarm" "yelling" and "screaming" and did not find an answer. I'd love to be proven wrong. But this is really irritating:
Is anyone else out there bothered by the fact that our boats are crewed with the biggest bunch of ninnies since the SS Minnow? I'm referring to the screaming and alarums that happen on the slightest provocation.
Now, I've spent almost all my adult life in occupations that expect the worker to deal with stress in a controlled manner (10 years Army, 15 years Fire Department). The newest rookie on my crew knows not to yell and scream on the radio. As the Captain, I'm expected to say things like, "Dispatch, we're on scene of a 5-story apartment complex, fire blowing out the first floor, residents jumping from the upper floors, let's upgrade this to a second alarm." or "Dispatch, we're on scene of a 50 acre brush fire pushed by wind, 200 houses threatened in the next 10 minutes." without my voice raising a notch. Anybody who gets to screaming or just plain being excited is chastised severely* by his peers.
Now, the Army was the same way. Scream for a fire mission and you'd get a laconic, "calm down and say again all, over". I read once that the Navy Pilot's biggest grief with "Top Gun" was how they made the characters so excited when in air combat.
So the sub service can't be that different, right? If my XO consistently replied to my calm, "Okay, the Betty is coming right at us, let's crash dive." with "CRASH DIVE!!! CRASH DIVE!!! OH MY GAWD, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" I'd bounce that sucker off the boat first chance I could get.
So anyway, after all my rambling, is there a mod out there to calm down the crew effects? I do understand it would be a huge undertaking, just wonder if someone has done so?
*chastised? we still make jokes about a guy who retired 5 years ago that was notorious for panic via radio. His nickname was "spinner" - if you nailed one boot down he'd spin in a circle screaming, "SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!"
Is anyone else out there bothered by the fact that our boats are crewed with the biggest bunch of ninnies since the SS Minnow? I'm referring to the screaming and alarums that happen on the slightest provocation.
Now, I've spent almost all my adult life in occupations that expect the worker to deal with stress in a controlled manner (10 years Army, 15 years Fire Department). The newest rookie on my crew knows not to yell and scream on the radio. As the Captain, I'm expected to say things like, "Dispatch, we're on scene of a 5-story apartment complex, fire blowing out the first floor, residents jumping from the upper floors, let's upgrade this to a second alarm." or "Dispatch, we're on scene of a 50 acre brush fire pushed by wind, 200 houses threatened in the next 10 minutes." without my voice raising a notch. Anybody who gets to screaming or just plain being excited is chastised severely* by his peers.
Now, the Army was the same way. Scream for a fire mission and you'd get a laconic, "calm down and say again all, over". I read once that the Navy Pilot's biggest grief with "Top Gun" was how they made the characters so excited when in air combat.
So the sub service can't be that different, right? If my XO consistently replied to my calm, "Okay, the Betty is coming right at us, let's crash dive." with "CRASH DIVE!!! CRASH DIVE!!! OH MY GAWD, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" I'd bounce that sucker off the boat first chance I could get.
So anyway, after all my rambling, is there a mod out there to calm down the crew effects? I do understand it would be a huge undertaking, just wonder if someone has done so?
*chastised? we still make jokes about a guy who retired 5 years ago that was notorious for panic via radio. His nickname was "spinner" - if you nailed one boot down he'd spin in a circle screaming, "SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!"