To each his (or her) own, DiD makes life in late war patrols interesting to say the least. That's where one misses the renown that vanilla awarded for reaching the patrol area and returning alive. Type VII careers in starting summer '44 tend to be rather short and violent sometimes and just getting home is an accomplishment.
Good Hunting

I set myself a rule: savegame on contact with "something"... and 3 attempts to plan and execute an attack/escape combination... :
1 in game attack and 2 reloads allowed.

Seems to me as fair common ground between fun and real life sim.

It's pointless to get killed every 1942... as well as being successful from 20 attempts of convoy raid...

If I had to choose Yes or No... would be closer to DiD.

:know:

I play DiD. Once I got killed and restarted a saved game. I felt like I was cheating.

DiD all the way for me! :rock:

Of course no one ever plays DRID=Dead Really Is Dead. No, I don't mean if we die in the game we kill ourselves, but we might be more careful and play more realistically if when we die in the game we don't start a new career for, say, a month.

Or a year.:dead:

Phew!....read this just in time to stop myself from jumping out in front of a runaway patrol car :lol:

Agree :up:

DiD a habit from AOD!

:)

Dang! I posted five minutes too soon!:p

I'll try DID once i've completed a 39-45 career...i've only had SH3 a few months (i had SH2 years ago) and haven't got past 1940 yet. I like the idea of it actually meaning something if they sink my boat.

I play DID except when the power goes off (1x) or a rare system crash, these aren't my fault. I restart at the last save. On my one computer, if I get killed in game play then I'm toast, and start a new career with a new boat, captain and crew, at that point in time. I want to see how many careers it takes me to reach the end of the war. On my other computer I restart at AUG 1939 from Willy.

Do I play DiD? Kind of. Yes, if I am legitimately depth charged and killed then the career is over.

However, it often occurs that I've loaded a save, and I'm out somewhere when something comes up IRL. If that happens, I merely quit the game. When I log back in I'm supposedly "Dead" but I load a previous save and replay that part of the campaign.