Time Compression?

[Alky]

Just wondering if there are any Captains running SH4 in "real time"? :hmmm:

[Rockin Robbins]

Nope, I run 1024 or 2048 in open water, 16x on plane detection, during dive and resurface and then back to 1024 or 2048. On station I'm usually at 512 until picking up a contact, then to real time for the entire encounter.

[SteamWake]

In real time... doubt it seeing as how it can take weeks just to arrive on station. Kinda boring.

[Highbury]

Some of us would just be finishing our second patrol! lol

There has been lots of talk about Real Time patrols in SHIII and SH4, there was even a running sticky about one in SHIII a few years ago. I have seen many claims to starting a real time patrol, but never seen someone claim to sucessfully finish one.

Side note to the OP, I see you are in Abbotsford. I am just a bit West of you in Richmond :D

[Alky]

Some of us would just be finishing our second patrol! lol

I was just curious if there was a fringe hard core group of players :)
I know nothing of the multi-player side of things but wondered how time compression would work in that environment.


Side note to the OP, I see you are in Abbotsford. I am just a bit West of you in Richmond :D:salute: Highbury!

[MK2]

Some of us would just be finishing our second patrol! lol

There has been lots of talk about Real Time patrols in SHIII and SH4, there was even a running sticky about one in SHIII a few years ago. I have seen many claims to starting a real time patrol, but never seen someone claim to sucessfully finish one.

Side note to the OP, I see you are in Abbotsford. I am just a bit West of you in Richmond :D


any chance you can find that SH3 thread? I remember seeing it a few years ago but can't find it now.

[BlueFlames]

In real time... doubt it seeing as how it can take weeks just to arrive on station. Kinda boring.

Generally true, but if I were going to do a 1x patrol in SH4, I'd start on December 8, 1941, in the Asiatic fleet, probably with an S-Boat (just to make sure you're not assigned a patrol zone too far from home). Then, the IJN will be happy to come right to you.

Unfortunately, that's about the only scenario that's really appropriate for a reasonable 1x patrol in the Pacific theater. The Atlantic, with so much of the fighting occuring within a few hundred miles of German ports, offers many more options for people looking to engage in realtime simming.

[Munchausen]

:yawn: Every morning I would get up at oh-dark-thirty and turn on the computer. Load up the mission I quit late the night before. Let it run all day while I did other things. If I was in unfriendly waters, I'd change the Main configuration settings so the computer would pause whenever a ship or plane was spotted. Every now and then I'd check the computer to see if anything interesting was happening (which usually meant the computer had paused).

Engage the enemy as required. Then plot a course away from the ship(s) I'd sunk.

At night, I'd crank TC all the way up to x64 and run it until either something happened worth investigating or until "game sunrise." When the sun started coming up at midnight (and there was no way to fix it), I quit SH4 and reinstalled SH3 with GWX.

:cool: Now I do the same thing with SH3 ... except I never set TC beyond x32. And, in SH3, I can match years (1939 = 2009) as well as month and day.