There are a lot of us lurking here on the subsim forums who you guys have never heard a peep from. I believe this is my first post ever (edit- OK, second) and I've logged on subsim almost every day for nigh on two years. Guys like me have been quietly playing SH3 (in my case, heavily modded with GWX and Ducimus' tweaks and other great stuff produced by the SH3 Mod community).
Personally, I log in to subsim in order to keep up with the mod community and also to do recon on the next "latest and greatest" subsim coming down the pike. For the last many moons that "up and coming" sim has been SHIV. I found SH3 to be very unfinished when I bought version 1.0 back in the day, and I expected that SHIV would be the same. SH3 is now "just right" thanks to the hard work of the Mod community (thank you KpLt Lehmann, GWX team, JScones, Rubini, JCWolf, Ducimus and all of the others). SHIV is still in development, from what I hear...
My point is this- there are probably a whole lot of sub simmers just like me who never ever post on the forums but who are extremely tuned in. Players like me are waiting on our community experts to report that SHIV is finally fixed enough to justify buying. Without a 1.03 patch, I'm gonna stay in the Atlantic with SH3 because it WORKS, the mods make it the best boat in the ocean, and why would I want to spend my hard earned money on an unfinished product the developer and the dev team have walked away from already.
PATCH IT AND I WILL BUY IT.
Two cents from my first (err-Second) post.
Gumby, U554.
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