This site is extremely helpful and answers to questions usually come quickly and fluently. Some of you guys (it would seem) play this game for every available hour of every available day, but not everyone does that. It's also clear that many of the 'old hands' are interested in World War II as an historical topic and have read up accordingly as a means of understanding the game more thoroughly and becoming more - I believe 'immersed' is the word. Not everyone does that. For some people this game is just that; a game. A very good and a very entertaining game, but a game nonetheless. A game that they play once or twice a month - or even once or twice a year. Should we look to go somewhere other than subsim.com?
May I be so bold as to suggest that unless you know that a fellow member is an old and experienced hand it is unwise to make too many assumptions. For anyone who fits into the group referred to above, it's probably quite boring to see the same old basic questions coming up again and again and if that's the case then don't reply to them; someone else will; someone who maybe doesn't have the experience that you have but can, nevertheless, answer a basic question; someone like me maybe.
As for the manual(s), well, as someone who has spent all of his working life in the print and publishing industries, I have said before and will say here again that they are not produced to what I or anyone I have ever worked for would recognise as a professional standard. Without the time and effort and dedication put in by the people who produce the game mods and websites like this one, the whole Silent Hunter 'thing' wouldn't be a fraction of what it is, and for that I am very, very grateful. But it is a fact that the manuals do not compare with the same high standards that clearly go into other aspects. The folks who do it for free have some mitigation for that; the games publishers like Ubisoft, a (multi?)million dollar company does not and they should know better. That's my view. My view as someone who, I repeat, has spent all of his working life in the print and publishing industries.
Looking at JohnLax's information, he joined a long time ago, which might suggest to me that he is possibly someone like me who enjoys SH enormously when he plays it, but for whom it IS only a game that he plays every now and then; consequently, he forgets things maybe; maybe forgets really obvious and basic things sometimes. I could be wrong of course.
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