WELCOME ABOARD!
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Originally Posted by jscharpf
I just purchased SH3 and I have to say I've only made it through the first Navigation lesson and I'm LOVING this game!
LOL I feel like I'm, what 8 years behind lol!
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I've had the game since it was new, and I start over every time a new mod I like comes out. I've never progressed beyond 1940. You're not that for behind.
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Anyway, the only other sub sim I played was Aces of the Deep years ago.
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And I still play that one as well.
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So, I purchased SH3 and decided to apply the Living Silent Hunter 5.1 add on. I didn't want to get crazy with add on's yet. I downloaded this as well as GWX(?) but I will try this for a while first.
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And you made a good choice. GWX provides the most rounded, complete experience, in my opinion anyway, but LSH3 is quite good.
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1) Menu music vs. Gramaphone. I downloaded a bunch of ogg files so I can have some cool old music playing, but it seems that the game menu music never stops. I enjoy listening to the menu music but I would like it to stop once I decide to play the Grammaphone. I don't understand the four symbols that show up, especially the one on the left. There is map looking thing with an arrow.. then what looks like a reverse, then stop, then forward. Where does it explain these buttons? Can I have both the Grammaphone music AND the "dramatic music" that seems to show up when I move around?
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I went into the 'Sound' folder and deleted all the mood music. They wanted a "movie" experience, and I wanted a realistic experience. I don't seem to have music following me around in my life, and neither did they.
Just my opinion, of course.
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2) I'm a beginner but I always like to play sims in "realistic" mode. I decided to set everything to historical 100%, then I changed the following:
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For the most part they aren't so much "realism" levels as "difficulty" levels. In some ways the game is harder than it was in real life.
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External view: I will probably turn this off sooner or later, but I just like to enjoy the cool view occasionally.
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Same here. It is nice to see what you can, and to take pictures of it.
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Allow assistance (or advice) for the fire control computer thingy lol.
While I enjoy entering my own values and trying to determine the AOB, range, velocity, etc.. with the LH3 addon, it seems the ID manual is a little messed up, so I need assistance ONLY with identifying ships. I will still enter data manually.
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I suck at advanced math, so I use the WE assistance, but in manual mode. It's a cheat, but if feels better than full auto mode.
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Any suggestions for a beginner other than just go practice? 
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No. The good thing about a game is that you can "die" and still come back to learn from the experience. Gotta love it.