Real time would be cool, I admit. In Das Boot for example, in the uncut version, you see that 75% of the movie is the crew killing time, dying of boredom (simulating the real experience), when they do finally see action, its very riveting. When I play SH3, I'd like to experience that, put myself into the place of that Das Boot crew, experiencing the human factor of the war and the gallant U-Boat men.

However, most of my patrols seem to last 2-3 weeks. I play as much low TC as I can, and consequently I've played a month and a half now, and still am only in mid '41, 16th patrol of my first career. At this rate, even if I die off early, say at patrol 30, which would put me in late '43 or something, that 2.5 weeks average per patrol times 30 patrols=75 weeks of real time with no TC! A year and a half? Sorry, there's too many other games out there to play in my allotted game-playing time in my life schedule, and already too little time. So I've become more liberal with the TC lately, trying to cram in as much of the fun stuff and less of the boring stuff into the smallest amount of time. Especially with so many other great games coming out recently and the near future that look quite tantalizing to me. I've been able to shrug them off so far with the incredible SH3 experienceand my fascination with the German U-Boat, but I fear its only a matter of time.

Hmmm, REAL SH3 lover don't play other games ;)