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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Inferior? Not at all. I just disagree. On the other hand I've been playing subsims since Silent Service back in 1986, and I've kind of burned out on just sinking ships. My idea of a good time is to leave a well-modelled harbor in real time and enjoy the sights. The actual hunting and sinking of ships is almost an anticlimax to me.
My hat is off to you; you're a better man than I am. Everybody should play the way that suits them.
No, I probably was being judgemental. I tend to do that sometimes, and I apologize. That said, I do love a good discussion on what is or isn't valid in a game, mainly because for me it's so much more, and so much less. You see, I'm also extremely anal about the way I actually play, to the point of being obsessive/compulsive about it. As I said, I love the idea that there are so many different ways to play the same game. Part of it is that I've been doing it too long, and I've seen too many threads started about sinking a million tons in a patrol and acting like doing that on the easiest settings is something special. You didn't do that, but I did react to the idea, not of exploiting the game's idiosyncrasies, but of praising the game for having them.
So, as usual, I find myself explaining myself and apologizing, mainly because you're right.
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I didn't think you were intentionally insulting, but your apology is most certainly accepted.
I do play with some degree of realism. I am around 75% in that respect as well as use SHIII Commander. The only real "cheat" I keep is the map auto-update. I also keep automatic targeting because I am not a 'one-man crew'. My examples, as I said, were flukes. I also understand about seeing the ludicrous tonnage counts. In my current campaign, I am a T3 away from tying Kretschmer's tonnage record. Yet I also know that the game has ships pop up in the same spot with some degree of regularity, which is hardly realistic. If I
had to estimate what a realistic tonnage amount would be, I would cut my numbers by about 40%. Like I stated earlier, I take a somewhat lighter approach to the game because I spend way too much time worrying about actual history, now that I am working on my master's in the subject. I certainly respect your dedication for absolute realism. However, as you have stated, there is more than one way to enjoy the game with a reasonable amount of realism involved.