1. I would also like to see realistic sailors on the ships (both enemy and friendly) walking the decks, directing planes on carriers, manning gun mounts, coming in and out of hatches and passageways.
2. I like the idea of not dying if the submarine is 100% damaged by being able to give the order to abandon ship with different outcomes depending on several different variables.
3. I would actually not like to see a game like SHIII again. I don't like the fact that the game is predetermined from the get go. I would like to have the game played out more like Chess. I think this would make the game feel more "unpredictable" and make the player feel that he has something to contribute to the final outcome. I realize that no one submarine was responsible for the winning of WWII but I do think that for each ship you sink there should be points given overall that help to aid in the final outcome. For instance...
The world is at war. In this particular game the variables at the beginning are as followed.
Japanese strength 50% overall @ 100% on every asset (this includes panes, trucks, ships, troops, etc)
US strength 50% overall @ 100% on every asset as well.
For each enemy ship the player sub sinks points will be added to the US side if playing as a US submarine. These points could be smaller or larger depending on the importance of the ship sunk, like a BB with an Admiral on it. These points will be added into the total weekly totals at the end of each game week to show that the player submarine contributed to the total overall success or failure for the week. For each week that passes each of the country's overall strength will either grow or shrink depending on ALL engagements for that game week. It could be possible that the player submarine sunk a BB and a CV that week but the Japanese Army overran a large island with an airport that was more important to them than the CV that was lost or the BB.
Overall that week the Japanese would have won in the weekly tallies but not by much considering that they did lose a carrier and a BB. The next week the US Marine Corps might overun that Island again in the US's favor and now things for the US are looking very good since they haven't lost a carrier or a BB yet and now have control of the island as well for even more air supremecy over Japan who is now short a CV, a BB, and and Island with a strategic airport.
Anyways, I think you all understand what I am getting at. I want a WAR happening around me that is NOT pre-determined. SHIII is a great game for the graphics and the realism of sailing in a realistic looking game world. But the knowledge of knowing how the game will end before you even install it onto the HD kind of removes any sense of accomplishment out of it. Some folks want a game that is like this because they claim that it is "REAL" and it's the way the it happened. <BORING> I want something that is REAL also but I want to feel like I am LIVING in it and the outcome is NOT fixed, making it feel even more REAL and like I am living in it. I want the REAL weapons, I want the REAL ships, I want the REAL planes, and I want REAL engagements to happen (like Midway, Coral Sea, Iwa Jima, etc. ) but I want to REALLY live it and have things happen on a 50/50 scale so that things aren't written in stone. Otherwise the game feels more like a time machine and I might as well just sit back and watch the inevitable happen with my arms crossed and my eyes half shut telling the skipper, "Don't worry Sir, nothing important is happening today, and the Japanese will surrender to us on Sept. 2, 1945."
4. ALSO, DEAD IS DEAD. If I sink the Yamato in the game that mofo BETTER NOT show back up in that ENTIRE game unless I start a new career. I've lost count of know how many King George BBs I have sank in the same career in SHIII. When something in SHIV is sunk I want it GONE for good.
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