Has anyone ever done a whole patrol in real time? As in 1xTC? lol

[jimmyjam25]

Just thought Id ask the question if any hardcore SH3 Kaleun's have ever done it? Maybe even dress up and not shave lol. Eating bratwurst and sauerkraut and cursing in German.... lol...

[krashkart]

I think someone here actually ran a whole career in real time, or maybe just part of it. I don't remember exactly...

[jimmyjam25]

A whole career? That would have taken years wouldn't it? That's hilarious!

[krashkart]

I'm gonna need clarification just to be sure, but yeah I think someone really did do that. If it's true then that is some hardcore dedication to the game.

[Red October1984]

Whoever did that is the ultimate subsimmer. Someone should give that guy a medal! I salute the guy who did that. I can only sail wit 1024x til I spot a ship. That's me. But this guy spent days........on one mission. Once again...

[Pilot_76]

I am currently doing it in real time. SH4 in the S-18 with TMO and RSDC. The neat thing about it is that while it takes a lot of time to get from point A to B the navigation process takes over and keeps me busy. DR and Cel nav is a cool feature with Stellarium. One other thing that I've noticed is the cheer as when a contact is made after days or weeks. I badly needed to sink something...

I started this patrol last December and the patrol's date started December 8th, 1941. As of today (Feb 26th, 12) the patrol's date is Feb 2nd, 42. So my process is this: When I'm home I leave the game running at TC x1, surfaced, usually at 2/3 to save fuel. When I have to leave for work or other errands I check the chart and see how deep I can go and order either PD or 100 ft+ at 1/3. When I get back I check the surface for contacts, surface and set for 2/3. When I go to bed I do the same process and in the morning surface again. The submarine actually revolves around my sleeping schedule. There is no XO to take over so When I sleep the sub keeps moving but if a contact is made it'll have to wait for the skipper to wake up.

I realized later that until I get to a Gato or Balao class it will take a lot of time. Like MONTHS to get to 1943-44. So my choice now is if I decide to speed up things (using TC) the question is to when and for how long activate TC. The problem is that I got used in TC x1 because as I said before the navigation process keeps me busy until I detect a ship and hunt it down. If I keep as it is I am not going to play any other thing until like...4 years from now so that is my dilemma. To TC or not to TC: There is the question.

ps: BTW I got influenced on doing this from a story in Subsim's book. One guy in Europe did a patrol in real time in a Uboat. The cool thing in the story was that he was actually living in the boat i.e. telling facts that happened with his virtual crew.

[Sailor Steve]

Here is the response I gave to a similar thread last year:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...9&postcount=31

And the whole thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=188822

Bottom line for me is that no one has ever actually done it in real time, because they go off and do other things and not sit in front of the computer 24/7. Do that and you might as well just use time compression. It comes out exactly the same way.

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Here is the response I gave to a similar thread last year:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...9&postcount=31

And the whole thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=188822

Bottom line for me is that no one has ever actually done it in real time, because they go off and do other things and not sit in front of the computer 24/7. Do that and you might as well just use time compression. It comes out exactly the same way.

Thank you Steve. Saved me the work of finding those threads.

[flag4]

...from time to time people turn up to do it. then they dissapear and, generally speaking, you never hear from them again........or how it went?

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by flag4

...from time to time people turn up to do it. then they dissapear and, generally speaking, you never hear from them again........or how it went?

There is a legend that those blokes go completely mad in their desire to live the dream. They never come back. They are the ones who convince the wife that the piles of dirty socks, the moldy cheese, the half-spoiled sausages, and the intermittent splashes of cold water to the face all add to the experience. All of those things and more, more, more! to make it as real as possible. We ne'er hear back from them.

They are the true masters of the art of subsimming, forever locked in stolid contemplation of the monitor's eerie glow as the ghostly silhouettes of merchant ships line up in their attack scopes and quickly disintegrate in great columns of blasted seawater. They are the giants bathed in dim red light late at night while their wives gently cry themselves to sleep. Lo! The greatest of men to sail the wrathful digital seas of Silent Hunter 3! They are the worthiest captains we will e'er know, and yet we know them not.

For they slip quietly beneath the waves to stalk their prey unseen, and are unheard by even the best ASW that SH3 can throw at them. Hedgehogs dodge them, my friends! Depth charges fear them! Leigh lights cannot illuminate them, my brothers! And no radar or sonar in that simulated hell can detect them. For they are the mightiest of men to have boarded this great ship of ours. Forever may they be remembered.

[andwii]

AMEN

[Gereke]

Being a former sailor as well, I'm with Steve on this. Real timing a patrol would bore the living daylights out of me.

I'm perfectly happy time compressing my way through the virtual war. I don't play the game to experience doing... nothing. I play the game for the experience of conducting virtual attacks against virtual ships-- I want to spend most of my game time doing that so I make sure that's what happens.

If I want to spend a few hours with some more "mundane" natuical simming, I have V-step's "Ship Simulator" for that.

[aj906]

I once did a watch in real time and that was more than enough. By the end of it I was about ready to open a vein in my wrist, but I did it.

[Reinhard Hardegen]

I too am play both SH3 and SH4 in real time. Doing it to see the historic and realistic feeling of what they saw and did on the Submarine, as most of the cruise was rather boring. I have started the 1st patrol of the U-37 and have plotted its real course in the game, from its positions from where it radioed in its position to BdU. To break the monotony I play the USS Salmon in SH4, also in real time.

[jimmyjam25]

Originally Posted by krashkart

There is a legend that those blokes go completely mad in their desire to live the dream. They never come back. They are the ones who convince the wife that the piles of dirty socks, the moldy cheese, the half-spoiled sausages, and the intermittent splashes of cold water to the face all add to the experience. All of those things and more, more, more! to make it as real as possible. We ne'er hear back from them.

They are the true masters of the art of subsimming, forever locked in stolid contemplation of the monitor's eerie glow as the ghostly silhouettes of merchant ships line up in their attack scopes and quickly disintegrate in great columns of blasted seawater. They are the giants bathed in dim red light late at night while their wives gently cry themselves to sleep. Lo! The greatest of men to sail the wrathful digital seas of Silent Hunter 3! They are the worthiest captains we will e'er know, and yet we know them not.

For they slip quietly beneath the waves to stalk their prey unseen, and are unheard by even the best ASW that SH3 can throw at them. Hedgehogs dodge them, my friends! Depth charges fear them! Leigh lights cannot illuminate them, my brothers! And no radar or sonar in that simulated hell can detect them. For they are the mightiest of men to have boarded this great ship of ours. Forever may they be remembered.

LMFAO!!! That is one of the funniest things I have read on here. Maybe those guys commited suicide... Or lost the plot and ended up in nut house... Wonder how many divorces have been a result of this game? Lol