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Originally Posted by Blacklight
And I don't see a modern sub sim being produced by any game company in my foreseeable future. It's too fringe and too complicated for today's mass video-game playing public. Out of everyone I know, I'm the only one who has anywhere NEAR the patience to have even LEARNED how to play Dangerous Waters or the other Sonolysts sims.
Is it just me, or has the indy modern subsim development, that was going strong for a while, just DIED completely?
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IMO, as long as the U.S. government continues to spend big money on defense, and to spend money that even the pentagon says it don't need, companies like Sonanalsyts will have no monetary incentive to create a "simulation" of the type we simmers want. Think about it, congress proposes to add two (2) trillion to the defense budget, and some of that money will be needed to create training systems for the military. Sonanalysts doesn't create weapons systems, it is creates simulations of weapons systems to train the warfighter.
The only way we will get anything is when/if defense budgets are reduced.
Right now the guys with the know to create simulations of modern systems are employed directly and indirectly by the government(s).
And I'm sticking with Win7 for the forseeable future. Eventually we will be needing a whole slew of "legacy" machines to run our
favorite simulator\games.
