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CCIP · 01-27-12, 07:59 PM

Silent Service (also my first subsim) technically didn't have TC in the same way as the recent Silent Hunter games do since cruising around and looking for traffic in that game was abstracted. Unlike SH4 where you have actual ships moving on actual routes, tracked at all times, SS just simulated a random chance of an encounter in given areas. You technically didn't encounter ships as they moved their way through the sea, but they would be generated when the game decided you would have an encounter, based on a virtual dice roll.

So yep, it was primitive. Pretty elegant solution for what it did with the computing resources it had, though!

01-27-12, 07:59 PM	#13
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Silent Service (also my first subsim) technically didn't have TC in the same way as the recent Silent Hunter games do since cruising around and looking for traffic in that game was abstracted. Unlike SH4 where you have actual ships moving on actual routes, tracked at all times, SS just simulated a random chance of an encounter in given areas. You technically didn't encounter ships as they moved their way through the sea, but they would be generated when the game decided you would have an encounter, based on a virtual dice roll. So yep, it was primitive. Pretty elegant solution for what it did with the computing resources it had, though! __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)