[Ducimus]

I must say when i originally picked up SH3, i was impressed. It was the first Sub Sim i've played since The orginal Silent hunter. For some reason that game just didnt grab me like Aces of the Deep. It was too cut and dry, lacked atmosphere. However, almost immediatly when i started playing SH3, i found things which annoyed me for whatever reason. These annoyances are what led me to this forum.

Orginaly i did not consider myself a modder, but a user of mods. And like the stock Silent Hunter 3, I found some aspects of mods which were cool, and others which annoyed me. So began the long and winding road of tweaking your game. So to that end i'd have admit that 90% of the mod material i used was not my own, just a revision of someone elses. The strikve was to find the ideal settings which you, for whateve reason, thought were the best. And in that strive eventually you cross from mod user, to mod tweaker, to mod maker.

Over time you develop a fairly good idea of how many facets of the game work, and over time, i think it looses it's luster. For me now, it doesnt matter where i play SH3. Caribean, North atlantic, south atlantic, Indian ocean, the med, or even what boat, it doesnt matter to me anymore because the action is always the same. Find em, chase em, sink em in a German Uboat. So im at a point now where to me, it's all the same. In sum, im ready for a little break (although id be lying if i said i wasnt going to play SH3 at all), and im REALLY ready for SH4.

At any rate, i feel compelled to summerize my contributions to the SH3 community. Im not talking about other peoples stuff, just the stuff I did. I dont think anyone can truly claim that i can't talk about my own work. Some may accuse me of being eogtistical. To this i disagree. My contributions to the SH3 community have been few, and i feel minor by comparision to other works. I acknowledge this, my only cavet being im quite proud of what few orginal works i did do. Others may be angry at me for talking about what little i did, or just angry at me for just being me. To them all i can say is, don't blame me, blame your mouthpiece's amazing ablity to piss someone off enough to say to themselves," Ok thats it, ive had enough." This goes to both sides the supermod fence.

To conclude, the following is my meager contributions, im a bit burned out on alot of things, albiet im still addicted to sub simming. I wish i could say i quit, i feel like im hanging up the hat, I want to hang it up, but i know thats's a lie because id be back here sooner or later.

For now I bid thee adieu.