[snwcrsh]

Letum: After thinking about your post for a while, I think I have to rather disagree -- not on your point but on your reasons. At least on three fo four, which were:

Generally 1xTC makes SH3 a worse game. This should be obvious!

1xTC does not make SH3 more realistic.

1xTC does not reveal hidden beautys in the game.

Using higher TC does not mess up the game.

I disagree with all but the last one -- definitely TC is a feature that *should* be used, and the game would be dead if there wasn't TC implemented. And it should be used (even by me) for the sake of ... everything).

BUT, (big But) it's still a choice. you can run the game in the speed of your choice. It does not mess up the game if you are running it on 1TC either. It willl mess up *your* game if you are bored by it, though. It is the same as, let's say, some people like to patrol on 64x while others do it on 128x (or whatever). We can argue here, but fact is that everybody will chose the TC he feels comfortable with. If it's TCx1, why not?

That's why I disagree with point 1 -- Generally TCx1 does NOT make SH3 a worse game. It only makes it a worse game if you don't like it. One might argue that GWX or OLC makes SH3 a worse game -- let them think so, it's fine. They can use stock SH3. People who can't live with TCx1 don't need to either, they can fast forward.

Second point, realism. You claim it doesnt enhance realism in any way. Yet you give no reasons why not. Obviously it doesnt harm realism either. So, please ask yourself, what is closer?`A version where the captain can click his magic watch and let those desolate moments where nothing happens fly away in a whimp? or a version where he can't? Of course, it's nothing close to the real thing (someone posted http://www.trolinger.com/david/simulate.html before, it fits here), but it at least get you really grasp the vast stretches of time where you would be bored. I say *would* because I luckily am not -- I am busy with other things, I'm just simulating this, but yes, running more or less as a screensaver.

But it get's very different from a screensaver once you encounter action. It *will* happen, sooner or later, even if you must go on 2 boring patrols before. And this brings me to the third point where I disagree: When you played a campaign for 6 month in more o less real time and after no big events you finally contact an enemy task force with a British carrier... wouldn't you cherish that moment even more than if you used 1024 TC to get there?

Kaleun Bosch out. Err snwcrsh. Alas, I'm drunk. Must be the Grog!