#1

I have my own recognition manual, I occasionally plot attacks on paper using pencil and compass and strait edge, I time ships by stop watch, and even have one notch on my belt for a 1x time compression patrol of about 2 weeks duration.

:salute:

next step, decorating my room with encased red lights! ;)

100% realism, but don't play DiD. I don't want to spend several evenings just to lose my life. After all, I'n also expending my real life! It's only a game...

See my sig. I tweak several config files via SH3 Commander for even more realism regarding equipment availability, patrol areas, sensor capability..., and I impose additional restraints on myself in areas the game does not model, such as reloading torpedos from external storage, max snorkeling speed, etc. I patrol the area BdU sends me to. I adjust my TC to reduce sightings of ships but maintain numbers of aircraft attacks.

When I lose a sub, I don't start over at the beginning of the war, when life is relatively easy. My new career starts up where the last one left off, but with a rookie crew. If a Kaleun retires, my replacement career gets a somewhat more experienced crew than rookie but usually not nearly as experienced as the retired one.

I don't do my own star sightings or other advanced navigation.

So maybe that makes me about a # 0.6

2 + D.I.D.

I like external views and I use 'God's eye view' as I find the errors in the stadimeter too frustrating.

#2+DID.
External on, but use it only for screenies. Well, almost only for that...
Gods eye on and no, I´m not going for manual targeting but I have no weapon officer helping me. Makes 80%.

Is that semi realistic:hmmm:

#2 at 86%, D.I.D like Roald Larsen, Gods Eye ON, everything else off.
TC usually below 128 except for empty homeward runs.
Hoping to understand how to plot 100% manually soon.
Full manual torp setting in the TDC, not even using the datapad.

#2 + D.I.D.

Nemo

I'm assuming "DiD" means "Dead I'm Dead." Been here 5+ years or so and never saw that term used here before.

In any event #2. It isn't "realistic" for the captain to madly rush from station to station like he's the only competent crewmember on board (or the only one on board).

As long as you're enjoying the game, it's the right level for you.

Now excuse me, my U-boat just succumbed to a 4 hour depth charging and I have to go kick my girlfriend out of the bathroom :dead:

#2 I think in the next few weeks i am going to learn how to do the TDC.

Hardcore 100% :yeah:

huh and SS man I see I am with the 2nd SS myself in RO.

80% + DID.I don't like manual targetting and I don't think it was the captain's job anyway was it?I do have a house rule though that I must have sight of the target for at least five minutes before I can launch unless it's very close range.Not sure how realistic this is.
For me DID is the thing that generates the excitement.That's where the fear and the joy comes from.It hurts when suddenly it's all over but it's all good character building stuff.

How odd, considering all the threads devoted to it. It simply means "Dead is Dead", meaning you've died, the career is over and there is no way you would resurrect it by reloading an earlier save.

1. Extreme hardcore, but the WO does the recognition for me.

I've never managed to survive the war. I was always depth-charged to death. This hedgehog is deadly accurate. You may survive the depth-charging but you will not make it if the destroyer attacks with the "hedgehog" thing as well. Now, if there is another destroyer around... kiss your officers and confess your sins ; the black ripper has come to visit you. :-?

Anyway, that's just me.

Number 2

I'm surprised that no one appears to be playing at #4, and only one so far at #3...
I play at #4 (43%).

if i had a dollar for every time :har:

#2, DiD. I keep the external camera mainly for screenshots. Never had much use for auto targeting - it is a lot of fun to "eyeball" my torps.

I love old games like "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe", where there's no way to resurrect your guy (without modding tools). I still remember getting my P-47 ace killed on his second-to-last mission when I was 11 years old. :rotfl:

I am so hardcore that when i go on patrol i turn my monitor OFF... :yep: :yawn:


[serously realism is around 80+ %, sometimes manual targetting On/ sometimes not. I mean no need to have a stroke over the game. :) ]