Seriously, we don't know, we do recommend it, and now you've started using it you should also get (if you haven't already) Ships Names to add to it!

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=2746

Sailor Steve's hard work, over 11 000 historically accurate vessel names :up:

I'm gonna go with "fehlende Name" but the actual German speakers here probably know better. :D

Eh, I've already entered the name. Oh well.

I'm also in the "Dead is Dead" crowd. Knowing that my career is on the line makes me more cautious and realistic - no going in with guns blazing. It also makes you sweat a little after 15-20 missions when the Tommy's are raining down ash cans.

The only time I would use an earlier save is if the game or PC screwed up (e.g. got stuck on time compression and ran aground).

It makes me sweat after 0 missions - I don't want to die!

Correct it would be "fehlender Name" but "Ohne einen Namen" its quite the same.

Playing DiD certainly adds tension to the game... I remember in good old Aces of the Deep, when I got rammed and then stuck in mud after repairing my boat on the bottom, I spent hours biting nails and attempting every maneuver possible to free the boat. I would never have the patience to do this if I had the option to just reload last save, but I would also never have the chance to feel like this in the end:

http://bluekidontheblock.files.wordp...0110659591.jpg

How would TC into land be a game or PC fault? :hmmm:

I have had a couple occasions where something causes the game to freeze up momentarily in that it refuses to respond to keyboard commands - like changing the TC, or making a course adjustment - while it sorts itself out. So I'm sitting there biting my nails wondering whether or not I can hit the right keys quickly enough when it starts responding again to avoid any disaster I might be heading towards at a higher TC than I'd like to be at under the circumstances.

OTOH the freezes typically only happen when I'm nearing base or some other heavy traffic coastal area, so I should probably know better than to be in TC at all. :oops:

I'd be reasonable with DiD as well. If my phone rings and distracts me, or I'm tired as heck and just do something wildly stupid and unrealistic, I'll reload. The game requires house rules like this, and from my perspective house rules only work when they bring the right (i.e. realistic) results.

Otherwise DiD makes the game extremely rewarding and thought-provoking. There were several times when I was left pretty much shocked by consequences of my own decisions, and times when I really got immersed in the tension, because the risks felt very heavy. The real payoff of DiD is not so much the challenge as that golden grail or simulations - suspension of disbelief.

Perfectly put.

The watch crew doesn't call out "Land ho!" That in itself is enough to warrant cutting yourself a break.

I get the same issue. This is the main reason I got SH3 commander - I can spawn outside of my home port.

This is also why I don't like raiding harbors.

One of the biggest detractors from playing DiD is the fact you just spent many years in game, and many hours real time building your renown, boat, and crew. You hate to lose it all. But luckily you can just start a new career around the same time frame and get similar equipment rather quickly.

Not really a problem
 

DiD for me unless it is something silly (such as CTD or wander off for a wee and forget to pause thus getting. That being said I used to simply delete careers, now I save them (well zip them up and remove) as SH3 commander keeps things nicely for me.

If I want a better piece of kit then I start at a later stage in the war. I have STILL never tried an XXI and prefer the big lumbering IXC. Would love a snorkel - never seem to last long enough to get one.

My careers are in double figures - never really counted.