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:

Yea, sometimes when I leave the game at a certain climatic point, I definitely do.

In my current patrol, I am out of fish and the last ship that I hit (large tanker) has been wounded for over a day now and still won't sink. I keep following her from a safe distance hoping she'll go down, but I'm about ready to give up and go home as she slowly creeps closer and closer to land.

By the way, I'm in the middle of grid AM 53, Feb 1943. :yep: :up:,

Sleep?

I kicked out the bed, and my girlfriend with it. Loaded with eels and 6-packs I'm ready for action ;)

Jeez, how old are you guys? Wifes? Babies? I'll get 16 on december 10th and I've been singel all my life:damn:

Anyway, remember: Sleep is important! It's VERY imprtant if you're gonna have a baby (I think) 'cause soon you'll be awake all nights trying to make the bugger to stop screaming! (............I think...........:hmm: )

Shoot man, I'm 41 with two daughters and a full time wife if ya know what I mean!!!:up: I play early morning Saturday and Sunday while all are asleep. I get some play in during the evenings.:lurk:

My younger daughter has eight years on you.

If you want to know more, try this thread. Just take note of the dates; the earliest posts are more than a year old now.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=87423

I had to exit the game while submerged and waiting for a C3 to come in range... :stare:

I really never take a chance and exit game while submerged anymore. There's just too great a risk that something will get screwed up, so I just pause and minimize to desktop if I can't surface. Just make sure you have a backup battery for your PC.

yeah! i use headphones, a little too loud, once my wife to get my attention because i couldn't hear threw a shoe at me head, crap i thought a destroyer got me, now that was immersion

Well, that's better than what my mate's brother is doing while he's using those things. He comes up from behind and starts to play drum solos.

I have a similar situation to you .. attacked a convoy, sunk a Tanker and crippled a Nelson Battleship which listed and down to 0 knots. I thought 'great' then it all started going wrong. Firstly, a River Escort wouldn't go away and rejoin the rest of the Convoy; when he finally did, I surfaced and loading what torpedoes I had left (2 externals, one for the front and one for the stern) halfway thru the last torp load, the River decides to return and it was touch and go to finish, submerge, cat-and-mouse with the River, sink it with a stern shot then stick a torp in the Nelson = no effect whatsoever so surface the Boat and throw every available shell at it just below the waterline from 2000 metres [as soon as got closer than that, the Nelson opened up on me ?!] I even threw in the star-shells at the end and no indication of sinking whatsoever. I saved the game with no Torps and no Shells and a big lump of renown sat there. The problem is I just can't seem to tear myself away from the Nelson and scratched my head all day trying to think of a solution :hmm: [I don't think speeding up the TC would make any difference either].