Imported note for the sh-5 development team!

[oscar19681]

Please add a crew on the deck when entering and leaving port. It could just be a key board button. For example make crew ready for entering/leaving port. They dont need to be animated. Just have them stand on deck please like so. in my view thats the only thing still missing from sh-5 so far. In the early stages on sh-3 development i was the first one that suggested seaguls in sh-3 . It might have been already on your list then but it got added and i felt that i had some tiny part in the development in sh-3.

http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/subs/uboat7c.jpg

http://blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/graphics/uboat_copyright_echo.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Yes...a crew on deck function/ability would be a nice touch :yep:

[JU_88]

Your note has now been exported. :D
Seriously though - nice idea.

[Lord Justice]

I come here today and have the pleasure of finding more new threads, and as such, find this suggestion to be of good worth. ( Crew present and file fit for duty.) This i greatly warm to, and indeed wish it be implemented, if it is not already done so. That said, as always the critics will undoubtedly scorn the absurdity of this eye candy for want and need of more important issues, thus by indicating suddenly to take an deeper intrest in the work load of the devs and their speedily resolve to meet the timescale. Whatever the outcome, it has my approval. thank you :up:

[oscar19681]

Yes i mean this would be in the line of the vibrating diesel engines we saw in the gameplay video. Like i said this should not take a lot of time to implement. I mean it allready has the crew on teh conning tower and the deck gun. I would see why it should be hard to code the game so you can place a crewmember of at least 4 on the deck !

[The General]

Another great idea from the Community :up:

[Sailor Steve]

Agreed. It would be a cool thing to see, and not all that big. U-boat flags and victory pennants would also be a small but nice touch.

[JScones]

In the early stages on sh-3 development i was the first one that suggested seaguls in sh-3 . It might have been already on your list then but it got added and i felt that i had some tiny part in the development in sh-3.
So you're the one to blame for those noisy things. :stare:

<joking>

Nice idea. Considering the FPS thingy, I should be able to order "topside" or whatever and have my crew fall into formation on the deck, awaiting the adulations of an adoring crowd and band...at least until about late 1943, when I doubt my crew would follow my order, for fear of a bomb on the head.

FWIW I still remember the very simple 2D screen that AoTD employed. Simple, yet even after all these years still fondly remembered.

[Tomi_099]

Please add a crew on the deck when entering and leaving port. It could just be a key board button. For example make crew ready for entering/leaving port. They dont need to be animated. Just have them stand on deck please like so. in my view thats the only thing still missing from sh-5 so far. In the early stages on sh-3 development i was the first one that suggested seaguls in sh-3 . It might have been already on your list then but it got added and i felt that i had some tiny part in the development in sh-3.

http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/subs/uboat7c.jpg

http://blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/graphics/uboat_copyright_echo.jpg
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" SEHR GUT "":rock:
great idea from the Community !!

[kptn_kaiserhof]

yes crew on deck would be a nice idea but after 1943 it may become a rare site

[oscar19681]

yes crew on deck would be a nice idea but after 1943 it may become a rare site

Well if there is an option to activate crew top-side then you could just not bring m topside if you choose to do so! That is if you felt a simulate a depression becuase you lost family in raids over the reich.

[oscar19681]

I didnt expect so much postive responses to the idea. Lets just hope the devs still have time to implement the feature if they picked up the thread. And it would be cool to be able to say i had this little idea that made it into the game. I had the same thing about the seagull thing. Offcourse like i said before it could allready been implemented and an idea by the devs themselves . But you could imagine i was flabbergaster to see seagulls in screenshots before sh-5 was actually realised. I got the idea from das boot the uncut version where they are stalked by a seagull and Die alte was starteled by one. Also having crew topside would also server another cool feature. Imagine taking on fuel and supplies from a milkcow and being next to one while having crew topside .

[Brag]

Crew on deck together with tonnage penants would be fantastic. :salute:

[AVGWarhawk]

Not sure about tonnage pennats but crew on deck can be modded in I believe. TMO and RF modeled more men on the deck gun. One button push and now there are 5-6 guys working the deck gun. I suspect something could be modded into the game to have bodies appear from one press of a keyboard key. Have a crew on deck hot key. SH4 has commando teams appear on those special mission.

[oscar19681]

Not sure about tonnage pennats but crew on deck can be modded in I believe. TMO and RF modeled more men on the deck gun. One button push and now there are 5-6 guys working the deck gun. I suspect something could be modded into the game to have bodies appear from one press of a keyboard key. Have a crew on deck hot key. SH4 has commando teams appear on those special mission.

Yes my point exacly. Double or triple the stock commandos give them a u-boat crew apperance (which i believe are allready in sh-4 as in teh supply missions) and give them an upright stance and port them over to sh-5. Ther you have topside crew for all our u-boats. Really now this is out there i hope the dev team will shep some light on this in the Q&A since the questions awnsered in my view (as far as i can tell) doesnt contain a single question from the community.

[TarJak]

Something I'd like to see. Good Idea Oscar!:yeah:

[Jimbuna]

Something I'd like to see. Good Idea Oscar!:yeah:

Make it so.


http://scifiwire.com/assets_c/2009/12/Star_Trek_Stewart_Picard-thumb-450x300-30392.jpg

[Sgtmonkeynads]

Agree with all of you guys, could do so for Sh4 for practice.
I tried raceerboys flag and penant for sh3 in sh4. It almost works, if someone would just tweak it I'm shure it would work,
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=128&pictureid=1026

[Letum]

I suspect few crew where on deck later in the war when the boats left in
secret by night and at short notice.

[Sailor Steve]

Which is why it would work best with use of the keyboard. The flags by Racerboy, the aminated RDF loop and radar mast and Diving Ducks moving hatch are all done that way in DD's newest Open Hatch mod for SH3. Press Shift+D, and the crew is on deck. Ctrl+D and they're gone.

As Oscar said, they don't have to be animated. They can just stand at attention in their best uniforms and look good.

[Jimbuna]

Something like this

http://www.tracks-n-troops.com/shop/images/andrea/S12-S06.jpg

[oscar19681]

Yeah i mean we even had people walking on friendly and enemy ships deck in sh-4 . So i dont see why not on our own u-boat.

[danurve]

An excellent notion. :up:

Just a few guys would be neat.

Maybe the return crew can look all grungy and beat to snot like in Das Boot.

[Deep Dive]

All the suggested are nice if they make it in game

I wonder if the devs are still adding features or testing/correcting the last things before release

I hope Elanaiba is allowed to answer that

[Don_D_Dwain]

I enjoy reading these post. YOU GUYS, are SH1,2,3,4,and 5. No....its not just a GAME. The SIM quality assures that. With suggestions like these, although seemingly insignificant, makes a profound escalation in the quality of the game and the SIM. Even if this is not included in this episode, its nice to know someone is listening, and now I want to see your suggestion happen too.

[Ships-R-Us]

GR.............EAT IDEA "OSCAR". a keystroke to order crew topside in formation when returning to port after a mission or on leaving port just like in real life is an honor. I enjoyed it when rerturning home to see the crowd waiting on the pier.......Ships...

[oscar19681]

Ok devs! GIVE ME GIVE ME GIVE ME! Crew topside and make club oscar19681 even extra happy when it hits our dvd drive!

[Sailor Steve]

Here's an extra: If you return from a patrol with more than a certain amount of tonnage Onkel Karl is there to greet you!

[oscar19681]

http://www.wisconsincentral.net/ImagesCulture/DorchesterMemorial/GermanVIICSub.jpg

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3825/u2042.jpg

I rest my case.