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"Now to the things that make it hard for me / or any other modder. I see that a fair amount of people have downloaded the beta from my site, but very rarely I hear from them again. Some mailed me when they had problems but didn't bother to tell me if my solutions work. I am not angry at anyone, it's just not very motivating this way - and I have other projects that need my attention."
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This quote directly caused me to register on SubSim if only to respond with an expression of my gratitude for
all of your efforts. I'm speaking directly to Global Explorer at this moment as he has driven the efforts with SH3Gen. However, since I now use many of the mods all of you have contributed to this particular game. You, and those of your ilk, are the ones that keep these games from growing tiresome and thereby being abandoned.
I am not by any sense of anyone's imagination a programmer. Far from it! My last experience with programming was over 20 years ago in college with an Into to BASIC course (the garnerred information of which I've not used since. I am actually very new to modding but have become an avid follower. What I am is a long term computer gamer with a seat of the pants background in building and upgrading computers I've owned. I began reading entries in this forum only a few months ago and found the experience more than a bit addictive. The enjoyment I've gained from reading and, eventually, adding your various mods to my program has been about the only thing that has stopped me from constantly playing SH3 is my free time.
I purchased and installed SH3 early last fall and played incessantly until late November. I enjoyed the game play immensely, however some of the weaknesses in the original software began to get to me and I found myself growing tired of the game play. The game was good enough that, after a month's absence from it, I began visiting the forums related to SH3 and discovered this particular diamond amongst the gems. I began installing many of your mods one by one and, low and behold, SH3 game play became exciting, more enjoyable and a more enveloping experience than it had ever been previously for me.
I am one of those who have downloaded yet not installed SH3Gen as yet but am extremely anxious to do so. I am currently on my 13th patrol with a low level settings for realism. I'm still trying to learn some of the techniques needed for more realistic play. Also, though I attempt to follow and understand the specifics of the conversations here you folks are speaking completely over my head. No matter. I still find what you're able to create and how the process unfolds to be fascinating. I've received nothing but enjoyment from the fruits of
all of your labors.
The only thing holding me back from decompressing the SH3Gen software and installing it is I'm a bit timid of not installing it properly and wiping out my current records and/or corrupting the original SH3 software, SH3Commander, etc. I'm only waiting to be sure I understand the methodology completely for the proper installation of the SH3Gen software with the other add-ons I'm currently using. However, I'm too anxious to wait much longer.
In my game experience, I've been lucky thus far. Without using SH3Gen and employing only the historical dates for certain naval vessels recorded as being in specific ports, I've managed to sink the King George V in Scapa Flow and a light cruiser in Lock Ewe. I've used the same data to visit Scapa Flow and other ports in search of these prized targets during the aforementioned dates and found the particular harbors vacant but for the myriad of destroyers and other defensive vessels patroling the wars for interlopers of my kind.
I just wanted to thank each and every one of you that develope these mods and greatly improve the game play for schmucks like myself. Once I install and use SH3Gen I'd be more than happy to add my SH3 game play experiences and critique to this worthy discussion.