I definitely vote for a cold war era subsim.
And for those thinking you can't design a dynamic campaign around non real historical events, have a look at Falcon 4. :yep:
As for the reasoning that sub command ad dw have already locked that market, you seriously have no idea what you are talking about.
Dw is more than just a subsim, its an integrated 3d naval battlespace something that if a SH 5 cold era version is made, it will never be.
So I say bring along the 60-70 era. :yep:
A subsim with multistation-multiplayer capabilities, with a dynamic campaign being possibile also in multiplayer.
I want a cold war era naval subsim equivalent of Falcon 4. :arrgh!:

Update some classics
 

I would like to see it done as an update to one of the older classics already mentioned.

I'm thinking maybe 688i or Red Storm Rising using the SH3/4 engine would be a pretty cool Cold War title with a good amount of action and could be a very good game too.

However having been there and done that through the 80's and early 90's I will give the non-Cold War posters their due. A truly realistic Cold War sim would entail a lot of boredom although there is a different kind of excitement and accomplishment to a long undetected trail :cool:

As far as I am concerned, Dangerous Waters and the whole Sonalyst brand makes already for uber-simulations of the era. I would find no profit nor interest in playing a low-end cold-war era subsim, knowing that the game will hardly meet the realism of Sonalyst stuff :down:

Honestly, I'd find a DD simulation to couple with SH3 and SH4 much more entertaining and interesting.
A revised edition of SH3 (with updated graphics)+SH4 bundle together with a DD simulation and the right multiplayer stuff would definitely be quite a sexy SH5 for me.

SH5
 

End of discussion
 

Upon reflection I realise that I have made a serious error. With your assistance I have come to realise that our beloved Silent Hunter series should indeed remain a WWII based sim and that the Cold-War should be tackled by another developer. They sure could learn alot form the SH series though. Ubisoft have cornered what little market there is for subsims, but I can't help but think that a little competition would benefit us all.

Thanks everyone for making this an interesting debate.

:up:

Let me guess, you didn't think that the cold ware era choice would win so now you're regretting doing the poll in the first place ? :rotfl:

The Poll was a success, over 400 people have voted! And it showed that there are more people interested in a change than not. That's progress my Italian friend.

Yes, but I don't understand Why you changed your opinion. :hmm:

Perhaps as a community we could petition Firaxis to do an remake of "Red Storm Rising".

Interestingly in a poll on their site a while back another sub game the classic "Silent Service" actually came third in the games people would most like to see remade, scoring ahead of the game they did go on to remake (Railroads).

Sid Meier did actually mention RSR a while back saying that there would be problems using the name again as the Clancy properties are now now huge moneyspinners. Other than that I'd actually be happy with the original gamecode + new graphics +sfx which shouldn't be too expensive to do.

Sorry, that's Classified.

Early Cold War needs simulating
 

I would be most interested in early the cold war period. The SH series has covered 1939-1945, and the Sonalysts subsims have covered ~1985-2007. There is a gap that covers perhaps the most interesting period of submarine development, employment, and tension.

Silent Hunter - Cold Warriors - 1950-1980

would ROCK!:rock:

Just to briefly clarify my previous post on "pole results":

There is wide sim-community, within them some forum members, and finally - our forum members...
Out of total number of our forums members, some of them where interested in your proposal (hompage link) ...and poped in to thread.

... so it is natural assumption that, besides direct voters for WW2 simulation in a pole - to the same opinion should be added all the forum members who did not vote ... i.e. people who where not interested in even visting your proposal/link, they apparently are not interested at all in such an idea discussion or reading the proposal...

JUST A NATURAL CONLUSION...

....and don't you think that those third, yellow bar voters, are basically mockering your fresh proposal ?

Adriatico, I'm guessing English is not your first language, 'cos I can't understand what your point is. Anybody?

Screw up to 1980! Make it through 1992! Give me GEPARD BABY!:rock:!!!!!!!!!