My first post. Been lurking for a while now. Playing SHIII/GWX/SHIII Commander. Bought the game upon initial release, played for a bit, then discovered Everquest. Don't feel bad, I'm cured now.
I've loved subsims since Silent Service, so much so I played a submarine radioman in real life for 6 years. '85 - '91.
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Originally Posted by postalbyke
on a US submarine, we would spend 6 hours on watch every 18 hours, and it's pretty much the same thing, staring at a computer screen with nothing going on most of the time...
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Staring at the gauges and readouts not move on the reactor control panel is an analog equivalent. (The very definition of tedium)
I hear modern submariners do most everything by computer or digital display. I wouldn't know, I still had to learn Morse Code for goodness sake.
Cheers!