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TteFAboB · 11-05-05, 04:56 PM

I like the idea about operating valves and other stuff on the U-Boat.

There are some highly advanced payware Aircraft for Flight Simulator that have TONS of features and let you switch and interact with virtually every button and switch you can find on the cockpit, that's not what the pilot do, actually during a take-off on a 747 the real pilot would have the co-pilot ready to reverse the engines in case the take-off is aborted, in the simulator you have to reverse it yourself, there is no co-pilot! You have to raise the gear, you have to set the radios, everything is up to you, you are the pilot AND the co-pilot and that's FUN, of course, however, it would be best to have an "AI" Co-Pilot available for reality fidelity, since it's impossible to come up with a good faithfull INTELLIGENT Co-pilot, they leave you alone in the cockpit, a cockpit where everything really works and can be interacted with.

In SHIII it's the contrary, these submarines are far more complex and difficult to operate than a 747 and you need more than 2 crewmembers to get it working, however, it would be very cool if you could right-click the dive-plane operator and get into his shoes at his station and control the dive-planes yourself for the fun of it, or anything else, granted you'd need AI to operate the stations you're not on, which we already have, so unlike FS we're missing the option to manually operate the sub instead of missing proper AI to assist you, it would be an interesting addition for a full immersion SIM, like that Space Shuttle Sim that also lets you operate every single button and function, even though without proper AI assistance, we're either missing one or the other, is there any Sim out there that lets you operate a vehicle with more than 1 crewmember aboard?

11-05-05, 04:56 PM	#23
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	I like the idea about operating valves and other stuff on the U-Boat. There are some highly advanced payware Aircraft for Flight Simulator that have TONS of features and let you switch and interact with virtually every button and switch you can find on the cockpit, that's not what the pilot do, actually during a take-off on a 747 the real pilot would have the co-pilot ready to reverse the engines in case the take-off is aborted, in the simulator you have to reverse it yourself, there is no co-pilot! You have to raise the gear, you have to set the radios, everything is up to you, you are the pilot AND the co-pilot and that's FUN, of course, however, it would be best to have an "AI" Co-Pilot available for reality fidelity, since it's impossible to come up with a good faithfull INTELLIGENT Co-pilot, they leave you alone in the cockpit, a cockpit where everything really works and can be interacted with. In SHIII it's the contrary, these submarines are far more complex and difficult to operate than a 747 and you need more than 2 crewmembers to get it working, however, it would be very cool if you could right-click the dive-plane operator and get into his shoes at his station and control the dive-planes yourself for the fun of it, or anything else, granted you'd need AI to operate the stations you're not on, which we already have, so unlike FS we're missing the option to manually operate the sub instead of missing proper AI to assist you, it would be an interesting addition for a full immersion SIM, like that Space Shuttle Sim that also lets you operate every single button and function, even though without proper AI assistance, we're either missing one or the other, is there any Sim out there that lets you operate a vehicle with more than 1 crewmember aboard?