[Steel_Tomb]

Originally Posted by Graf Paper

This is why I have such an intense dislike for commercial games. If it weren't for modders, many games would not have half the playability and extended lives that they enjoy, thanks to those dedicated souls who said, "We can do better." and indeed have.

Sadly, it has been common practice for years that game companies will release a product that is only half finished, sometimes that the game is as unplayable and buggy as you might expect from an alpha build, all in the name of getting it out the door to rake in the profits.

Even sadder still is how we all will rush out to buy this shoddy workmanship, complaining all the while how it could have been better. It has been done like this for so long now that people regard this as the norm.

And then the game companies have the nerve to threaten lawsuits for "copyright infringement" against many modders for improving upon these games or else completely ignoring the petitions from the community for help in making official patches or SDKs.

As it stands, the best way to have a sub sim that includes all the features and game mechanics many wish the Silent Hunter franchise had is to make one.

If all the energy, intellect, and talent that has been expended upon modding SH3 and 4 were instead thrown into creating content and features for an open-source sub sim like, say "Danger From The Deep", then you would very quickly have a super-sim that would allow nearly limitless possibilities for where, when, and with what you waged virtual war.

Having access to the source code would make the job of tweaking and modifying the game vastly easier, as well.

I sure wish I had those skills because that is exactly what I'd do.

Ah well, dare to dream.

Sounds like your talking about when SHIV was first released lol. One of the worst cases of "pushing it out the door before its ready" I've ever seen.