[TorpX]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

When I do fire, I don't lock on, I like to use a spread.

Can't you use the offset dial in auto mode?




I certainly would like a future SH to have a well designed crew plot as an option, but I'm not entirely sure I would use it. I've gotten used to doing it, and I think the game would become boring if the crew did everything they did in RL.

You can certainly play the game that way, but if it was designed around that concept, many stations in the game would be superfluous. You wouldn't need a sonar station (or sounds for it), radar station, deck gun, AA guns, or (GULP!) a TDC. The control room could despense with most of the instrumentation. Mainly, you would be hovering around the periscope in the conning tower, or on the bridge, or perhaps, in your cabin. Most everything else would be mere eye-candy.


I think most people want to turn the dials, see the blips on the screen, and operate the machinery themselves. In this way, you learn how the machinery operates, instead of just barking orders at a simulated crew.