DiD is the way to go
 

To reiterate an earlier post we all play the game and get what each of us wants out of it. It is one of real joys of sims. There truely is no righ t way or wrong way, its only reason for existance is for our enjoyment.
I have always played DiD even back in the Silent Service II days. It tool me six months in real time to get to July 1945, and on my last patrol while under TC getting to my assigne patrol area, apparently I was jumped by a hunter-killer team or a lone aircraft with BLUB, BLUB being the the result. It took me the better part of a day to sobber up after the bender, but the several days later ther I was taking a old pigboat out of Manila in Dec 1941. This time it took me 3 months, but I completed the war.
If RL has taught me one thing, it is that in combat caution pays off in the long run. There is no practical alternitive to patience, and the little things
do often count.
This is echoed in the Silent Hunter series as well as in other subsims. When I lose patience--death is often swift, fortunately I can start all over again.
Just my 2 cents.

I am doing the same thing. It is December 1940 now and I made it this far with two careers. I died in June 1940 and restarted in July.

DiD all the way excluding a career or a patrol botched by computer or game crashes, in which case I just reload a working save. Haven't survived the war yet - and probably never will :nope:

I agree, but some people don't want to get anywhere near real life with their games. The way I play feels more 'real' to me, but I do something that no real captain could ever do - live parallel lives.

I use SH3 Commander with the 'Realistic Career Length' option turned on. I play multiple careers, one in each available flotilla. If a captain dies, or is retired, a new career starts the next month from the same flotilla. I played AOTD this way, and SH1, and now SH3 and, once I get my computer problems resolved, SH4. And yes, Dead is Dead. Unless of course running at high TC gets me killed before I even know it happened. Or if...:rotfl:

Oh, starting in '39 and trying to survive the war in active service is totally daft of course. We just do it because we can :hmm:

My longest career so far has been this Black Sea gig I just screwed up on my 17th patrol. The buggers tried to retire me several times and I refused of course... only to end up getting crushed because I was a bit beery last Friday and dove too deep evading a Storozhevoy :lol:

I play DiD with the exceptions of death caused by computer hangups and TC deaths

In all the years I have played SH3, I have only completed one full war career. I can honestly say it was not all that fun '44-'45.

I don't have time to restart a career, so I chose no. Then again, I don't die very often (only once or twice I think). I do get a lot of crashes though, and I wouldn't hesitate to reload those. I just got one last night off the coast of Puerto Rico. I took on a small convoy and sunk a large tanker, modern tanker, medium tanker, and large cargo. I was moving 50KM away to save safely after evading the escorts. At 50km, I dive to make sure there's no one around. Nothing. Then I surface and switch to the bridge view and screen goes black, boots out to Winblows, and I get the message of death. So 2 hours and 40K worth of shipping are toast. :damn: Then again, I've had game crashes bail me out of trouble, so I guess it evens out in the long run. :roll:

Once I finish with this career, I'll probably never start another. It's a great game, but it sucks up soooo much time that it really is a luxury I can't easily afford.

I imagine the most realistic DiD option would be that if one was sunk on patrol, to never play the game ever again.
Dead Is Dead. :)

I was about to write the same thing.

So those who play DiD do not play 100% realistic.

Markus

I just got my copy back from a mate who borrowed it 6 months back, and he downloaded GWX2 for me as well, so I'll be up and running shortly with DiD and SH3 realistic career length. I'm the same as a couple of others in a sense...

When I play if i survive the career & get retired i'll start a new one from next month. If I dont survive to retirement, i start a new career from the same opint in time the old one started

rifleman is the zombie thread generator! :rotfl:

I just want to get to the end of the war. I'll do dead in dead when I finish the war.

Well, there was nothing else to do.:roll:
And besides, I'm logged on a firewall-protected PC in the college library!:shifty:

I love resurrecting old threads.:|\\

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With the load times I'm getting on my machine, even non-DiD is nerve wrecking enough, thank you :down: