Is anyone as NEARLY as obsessed with SH3 as me?

[Flopper]

Got the game about 9 weeks ago. I had to let out a roaring belly laugh when I saw my stats.

http://www.dailycelebrations.com/gameplayStats.jpg

478.6 hours in 9 weeks. Just to top it off, I also have 79 hours in SH4, which I purchased in January. What a hoot! :rotfl2:

[Damo]

Get a job!!

:har:

[flag4]

Get a job!!

:har:

...in a submarine!!:salute:

[Sailor Steve]

I've been playing off and on for five years now, and SH4 for three.

Off, because I've spent some time without a permanent residence, which means my computer is in storage a lot. Off, because every time some new mod comes out I start over again in 1939, so I've never actually finished a single career.

So I spend a lot of time testing and combining mods, and I spend a lot of time researching my Ship Names mod.

Obsessed? Yes. Just not with actually playing the game.
:rotfl2:

[Flopper]

Obsessed? Yes. Just not with actually playing the game.
:rotfl2:

That's got me even more worred... I've spent a whole lot of time on subsim as well. I want to start modding, today! I've got it baaaad.

[Sailor Steve]

I want to start modding, today!
Don't. It's an addiction.

Actually I would recommend not modding just because you want to. I don't mean that as a reverse negative but rather not to make that the only reason. Find something you want to see changed, then find out how to do it.

Start small, is all I'm saying.

[Jimbuna]

Got the game about 9 weeks ago. I had to let out a roaring belly laugh when I saw my stats.

http://www.dailycelebrations.com/gameplayStats.jpg

478.6 hours in 9 weeks. Just to top it off, I also have 79 hours in SH4, which I purchased in January. What a hoot! :rotfl2:

What is this game SH you speak of? http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

[frau kaleun]

Obsessed? Yes. Just not with actually playing the game.
:rotfl2:

:sign_yeah:


I don't play every day, but there's rarely a day that I'm not tinkering with something SH3-related for at least a couple hours. Obviously I'm in here a lot and I'm always getting ideas about mods I could use or other things I could tinker with on my own.

I tend not to play much during the work week, if only because the temptation to keep going becomes irresistible... and I'll promise myself that I'll save and exit at a reasonable time, but when that time comes I am almost inevitably in some situation in-game where doing so is a very bad idea, and then I'm sitting there until 1 AM trying to sneak away from whatever tight spot I got myself into. That I know this, and still usually fire up the game at least once between Mon-Fri almost every week, probably speaks volumes.

On the weekends when I'm not worried so much about time constraints it's not unusual for me to be playing for anywhere from 6-10 hours straight. A lot of that might be done in real time where I'm not sitting at the PC but up doing other things, only keeping an ear out for any reports of contacts or whatever. That's a new experience for me with games and I'm still getting used to the idea that, with SH3, I can plot a course and leave the game running in real time and not have to be RIGHT THERE eyeballing the map or keeping watch every second that passes. Which is nice! If I'm sitting right there of course and the situation allows for it I'll bump the TC up.

[Flopper]

Don't. It's an addiction.

Actually I would recommend not modding just because you want to. I don't mean that as a reverse negative but rather not to make that the only reason. Find something you want to see changed, then find out how to do it.

Start small, is all I'm saying.

Absolutely. The first thing I'd like to try to figure out how to do, is make the night sky a little brighter. I'm not sure if it was gwx or olc gold that did it, but i can't see diddly at all if there's any cloud cover.

So far my "modding" has been restricted to nbdays in basic.config when docking at a supply ship (learned from the gwx manual, i believe), and I'm always tweaking commands_en.cfg to give me a single keystroke to max tc **, and to get the commands for DFant_subFlag_2010 to work. So I'm fairly lost as to how to get started.

**edit: i've contemplated writing an exe that would actually open that file, and make the change to just the one section. i know how to do that. on the other hand, i researched for a short while on how to accomplish this using a dos command, so i could share it with members of subsim as a batch file, rather than, "here, run this exe." i don't yet know how to do that.

[Flopper]

Don't. It's an addiction.

Too late! I found Silent 3ditor, and although I didn't find the right place to be for more visibilty in a cloudy night sky (what I tried brightened my sub), I had also wanted to get a little more clarity underwater, like where I could see the whole sub at once while submerged. I don't know what those numbers represent, so my first attempt made it to where it's crystal clear forever underwater... obviously a loser, but I'm happy to have at least gotten a start.

I sure do wish the game didn't take so long to load, though. I probably spent at least half my time invested waiting for the thing to load up! :zzz:

[Snestorm]

I'll save and exit at a reasonable time, but when that time comes I am almost inevitably in some situation in-game where doing so is a very bad idea, and then I'm sitting there until 1 AM trying to sneak away from whatever tight spot I got myself into.

Two of a kind.
This is what happens to me also, and I get "stuck" for hours.

Oh! I have the same initial installation as you, before we went our own ways with modding.
With this installation can I "Save and Exit"?
Or am I still forced to keep my PC running 24/7, as was the case with my original install?

[frau kaleun]

Not sure what you mean... :hmmm:

I hit 'Esc' and choose 'Save' to make a save game, if I just want to make a save game at some point and then continue on with a patrol.

I hit 'Esc' and choose 'Save and Exit' if I'm mid-patrol but ready to stop playing, and that would be the save game I load whenever I come back and want to continue that patrol from where I left off. Once I've done 'Save and Exit' I can exit the career, exit the game, shut down the computer, whatever, no problem. That last save game lets me pick up right where I left off when I go back in to continue that career/patrol.

But I don't do any kind of saves when I'm submerged or within visual range of another ship, cuz I've heard that can cause problems when such a save game is loaded up again. This is how I end up playing sometimes for much longer than I'd anticipated, because I get into a sticky situation that I have to get out of before I will risk making a save game.

[Snestorm]

Not sure what you mean... :hmmm:

I hit 'Esc' and choose 'Save and Exit' if I'm mid-patrol but ready to stop playing, and that would be the save game I load whenever I come back and want to continue that patrol from where I left off. Once I've done 'Save and Exit' I can exit the career, exit the game, shut down the computer, whatever, no problem. That last save game lets me pick up right where I left off when I go back in to continue that career/patrol.

THANK YOU! DANKE! TAK!

My first install of SH3 was the original issue (with Star Force, and patched by me) would not let me "Save and Exit". If I tryed it SH3 gave me 2 options.
1: Continue Patrol.
2: Abandon Carreer.
So I got used to leaving the computer, and SH3, run 24/7 until I finished my patrol.

Since installing the new version (SH2 & SH3 package), I was realy hoping that was fixed, but was a-bit timmed (en.sp.?) about experimenting.

With your words of wisdom on the matter, I shall try it.

Thank you again for the reply.
As a IXaholic, at 100% realism, the patrols can go for months.

[frau kaleun]

THANK YOU! DANKE! TAK!

My first install of SH3 was the original issue (with Star Force, and patched by me) would not let me "Save and Exit". If I tryed it SH3 gave me 2 options.
1: Continue Patrol.
2: Abandon Carreer.
So I got used to leaving the computer, and SH3, run 24/7 until I finished my patrol.

Since installing the new version (SH2 & SH3 package), I was realy hoping that was fixed, but was a-bit timmed (en.sp.?) about experimenting.

With your words of wisdom on the matter, I shall try it.

Thank you again for the reply.
As a IXaholic, at 100% realism, the patrols can go for months.

Hope it works for you.

It took me several tries to figure out how to make a savegame, lol. I didn't realize at first that you had to name the save, hit 'Save,' then hit 'Save' again to accomplish it.

I don't remember if that's the case with the 'Save and Exit' but when you DO successfully save your game, you should get a popup window that tells you so and you click 'ok' or whatever.

Anyway, once I do the 'Save & Exit' and the game saves successfully, I think it takes me immediately to a screen that gives me the option to exit the game rather than exiting the patrol and docking back at wherever my home port is. And then I just go back into that saved career and load that last save to continue or finish the patrol.

You can always start a 'test' career and go out on patrol and then try the 'Save and Exit' as soon as you're in a safe spot to make a savegame, and see what happens and make sure it does what you want before trying it in your current 'real' career. That way you'll know it works for you before you risk anything that you don't want to lose.

[Wreford-Brown]

I need to get back to just playing the game. I'm constantly tinkering with mods and have spent the last three weeks or so testing them for myself and a few others - load game, find the new bit that needs testing, exit, repeat.

Once the additional ships mod v2.9 is out I'll sit back for a bit and enjoy... although I have said that before!