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Originally Posted by Penta
Um...playability, guys. You lose a lot of people if SH becomes the Falcon 4 of sub sims, needing a 600pg manual.
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Don't mean to be rude, but do you have any idea how many people play Falcon4. There are online squadrons everywhere. There are 5 versions of the game. 4 modded and one commercail product. Falcon4:Allied Force. The game is only available because when the original Developers dropped support for it the community took over and kept improving the game. And that is how Lead Pursuit ended up with it, there were so many people playing it they made a deal and bought it and put out a new version.
So, making a Sim more 'real' does not scare the diehards away. But, I will admit that they would sell less copies if they didn't have the "easy" mode and different levels of difficulty like SH4 has. Manual targeting or not, dud torps or not, unlimited fuel or not. As long as you make it playable for the ones who don't want to learn how to run a "real" sub, it will sell.
And as long as you have people like the ones here that will help you out when you don't understand something. I can show you pages and pages of tutorials from when I was learning Falcon, now i'm a "Full Bird" Colonel with 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses and 8 Air Medals and 9 Campaign Medals and I started Falcon just like SH4, didn't know squat. And I can show you a lot of tutorials on SH4, right here at subsim!!
So, don't say they won't sell, like I commented as long as you leave in the "easy" choices then people can advance at there own pace. If they never get past the automatic targeting so what, they still are having fun and still have to get away from the damn DDs. Could you put "Stupid DDs" on the list of must haves?
But adding some of the things asked for would make a great game. I would give anything to have forward on one screw and back on the other, cause frankly this thing turns like a ....well, like a submarine. I can eat lunch before it goes 180 degrees.
Peabody