Well your question has been asked a thousand times on this forum but that's ok because you're new as we all were once.

I'll tell you that probably most people here use the SH3 Commander mod. If you get it, you'll want to install the weather mod which will automatically be executed thru the Commander mod.

Get some sleep and I tell you where the happy hunting ground for unescorted passenger liners is!:ahoy:

Don't worry. You and everyone around you will eventually get used to the grizzled face and deep set eyes with rings around them like a racoon. You'll dive under the bed in the morning when the alarm clock goes off yelling AAAALLLLAAAARRRRMMMM. I recommend a wind up type with the ringer on top for realistic effect. You'll start to get that desire not to shave so to add to the effect of a couple months at sea. You'll eat your meals directly from the can, without heating them. You'll develope a distinct taste for salt pork, and herring. You'll let your bread sit out an hour or two before consuming it, and have to carve the greenish blue parts off that brick of cheese. I seldom use artificial lighting after dark while on the bridge, and have the temp for the house set at 52 degrees F. Lots of heavy wool sweaters, and suede jackets. While driving, you'll automatically start to scan the horizon, and the sky for targets, and enemy planes. My son now thinks his name is "number 1" even though he's 21 now. There's more but you'll find it out as you go.

*stands up and looks around* "Hello my name is WhiteWolf and I am an SH3aholic" Welcome aboard mate.

Defintely get SH3 commander also good mods that I use are:
GW
3D waves mod
Fubars Crew skins
The new remove the triangles from the head mod (forgot the name)
Fubars dark VIIC boat skin

Also get yourself a red light next to the computer to enhance your experience :smug:

<Bart> Can't sleep... destroyers are gonna get me... can't sleep...</Bart>

Hylander_1314 is not too far from the truth. Don't forget about your family, you should visit with them between Patrols.

You may find yourself spending more money on books and U-Boat model kits, and watching Submarine movies. Welcome to our world, theres no turning back now.

First time i saw bags under my eyes i got the fright of my life, i did not know what was wrong i thought i was getting struck down with some type of cancer or something - freaking out! Then a friend said no mate those are bags your lacking in sleep :rotfl: What have you been doing?....Err I know ive been playing SH3 alot!:lol:

Oh well no pain no gain! :rotfl:

Welcome :up:

G'day mate!:up:

Happy to see that you found us, I myself haven't been here for too long, but I visit the site many times every day.

Just don't over do it, get some bloody sleep! Or you'll get mouse-arm like I got one night(or actually, one very very early morning:nope: )

"Or you'll get mouse-arm like I got one night":rotfl: :rotfl: How true:rotfl:

I wait till my wife falls asleep then i sneak back downstairs and pick up on my present patrol and use the headphones to keep the noise down.
The only trouble is my wife is due to have a baby any day so every now and again i sneak back upstairs to make sure its still just her in the bed and i havent missed the birth due to the headphones :o

Lifes great isnt it, modern technology in the living room goes a long way for driving a WWII u-boot :up:

Maybe I could get Bernard to stand in for me in the delivery room whilst i keep watch in the control room.:doh:

My rig is in the basement of our home. Sometimes my wife will call my cell phone while she is upstairs and asks me to surface for dinner or to do something. But that is OK, I still love her anyway. :yep:

You do want your kid to come out with 10 fingers and 10 toes, don't you? ;)

Three and a half hours until I'm back on patrol :yep: Anyone else at work thinking the same thing??

Wife was getting tired of me asking her to mute the TV when I did my hydrophone checks so I wear headphones now... Same thing with the light on the cpu desk.. I have a red bulb in it now so the light doesn't bother her..

Three hours and twenty-six minutes now, but who's counting?? :oops:

snafu...............your's looks like you are in a dentists chair
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/imag..._planesman.jpg

Hydrophone checks with headphones on...man, that's realism and immersion, and keeping the wife happy. That's a win-win scenario in my book. :lol: