EDITED:

Nah, forget it. I'll send you a copy of the essay when it is ready. Autographed, of course. Thanks for your support

Hi All,

Hitman, you are correct about Tactics used by Submariners during WWII. Way back when I first became interested in SubSims, I'm talking about Silent Service on the NES Platform. I saw the names Mush Morton, Dick Okane & the like. I read up on them & studied their tactics & to a Man none of them ever talked about going deep to approach a target.

Ducimus, your diagrams are textbook as to how one should position themself for a convoy attack.

While I rarely post I'm a frequent visitor.

What's this? Restraint? :up:

I obviously misjudged you. I hereby withdraw my earlier sarcasm. I should go back and edit my post to make it more polite. :oops:

Seriously, maybe you should write that essay and send it into the devs in time for the next patch. They have some serious unrealistic AI behavior problems to work out.

It was just a bit of irony;) . I think you misunderstood my earlier posts, as they were not intended to be a personal attack against your tactics when playing the game or a "bible" to tell people how to play. Probably my fault, since quickly writing replies "on the fly" in cyberforums does not always end up with the impression you would like to transmit.

I have been playing sims a lot of time, not just naval but also racing sims. And in racing sims is where the discussions have gone deeper and angrier when it comes to realism. You can learn a lot from racing sims in that respect, and about how well it translates into PC gaming, but as I said, that is something that would require a much longer and throughout text, thus the "essay" joke I made.

The bottom line I wanted to highlight is that someone will always find ways to trick the sim, and thus no modder or programmer can pretend to make a program code so perfect as to give always real life results to real life actions. But for years and years I have been seeing people here waste thousands of hours of efforts modding a game into something others couldn't cheat, instead of modding it into something that rewards a certain way of playing. :hmm: That's a battle lost even before the start.

I always rate sims or mods for what I get when I employ historic tactics, not for what I get when playing arcade style. I know I could trick the game sometimes, but that's not the fun of playing a sim for me. For others, the fun might be simply beating the machine, no matter what means you use for it -which is very respectable-, but not for me.

Cheers