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Originally Posted by SurfnSea
TDK is right in that what I've read so far is a bit out of touch with reality. Also, At WPL, wasn't there something where a coder was hired to fix SH2?
Anyway, for those who want to follow the dream of an indy produced sub simulation created by SubSim folk may I point out the freeware simulator Orbiter? You can find info at www.orbitersim.com Now if we followed that pattern but instead made it a sub sim instead of rocket ship sim then maybe we could have something. A simulator like that could also be easy for our modding community to add to. This could also open up the possibility for those who want to have a sub and DD simulator making it possible to have sub vs. DD again.
In short I'm saying find info on freeware sim Orbiter and then imagine sub instead of rocket. That project could start small but through easy moddability become more of the sim we would like. I guess I see it as something like building blocks; start off with a basic module then ad another then another etc.
This is just a brainstorming/ throwing around ideas thing, but who knows? |
Thank you!
The reference to orbiter is another great example of a good simulator coded by one guy.
But what, exactly, do you find "a bit out of touch"?
To all nay-sayers:
If a small handfull of guys can produce such games as Mount&Blade, Orbiter, Virtual Sailor, Rise: The Vieneo Province, etc, why can't a small handfull of guys make a sub simulator? Why does it all of a sudden take 35 coders 30 months to do the same thing in the submarine genre?
Just why in tha name of all that is good and cheesy do some think it's unrealistic to scrape up some money and pay people who allready do this stuff just for fun to make a sub simulator? Are the laws and physics of our reality so far removed from everyone else?
It's unrealistic? It's impossible? I fail to see one shred of evidence that this is so.
Because it's never been done before? Because...what?
Tell me. Not so I can disagree with you(unless you are just plain wrong :p ), but so we can all see the problems ahead of us and plan accordingly. Tell me just what exactly is so unrealistic or impossible, point by point, spell it out for me, so we can all look at it, think about it, and offer solutions. It's ok to think we can't do it. But please help us by telling why.