The Ultimate Expansion Pack

[vince0018]

I know that because I've only registered here recently I pretty much seem like a N00B. But actually I've been following tonnes of posts over the last year and/or a half.
I bought Silent Hunter III from a Blockbuster for $10. It caught my eye in a sale bin and after reading over the backside of the case I knew this game was special and had to have it.
I don't know if you guys remember that old submarine game that use to be on Nintendo way back in the day, but that was one of my favorite games before anything game out in 3D. Strangely enough I've caught myself saying, up until I bought this game, 'I wish there were a game like that one. There was something about it that was special.' But I think it may have been just because I love simulation games, and back then that was a fun one, at least for me.
Anyway from the first time I played SHIII I fell in love with the game. I couldn't get enough. It was a simulation that could be run in real time, even if games such as Flight Simulator, and Rail Simulator and similar ones were in real time, SHIII had so many more elements to it. Though there were some minor flaws and a few major ones, I put up with them because the game made up for it anyway.

I'm going to try to get to the point now and say that after finding subsim and these forums and discovering all these amazing things that have been and were being done to make the game more realistic, better looking, and funner all 'round I had to have some of the spectacular mods here. I have so many mods now, and I can't thank enough all the wonderful modders and the people supporting the modders and the terrific community here at subsim.
There are so many people here willing to make this game so much better for everybody else, and in doing that have very little time left in their day (or even weeks/months) to enjoy the game for themselves.

The entire community at Subsim and all the mods, if you look at them as a whole, in any combination, have created the #1 largest and most value expansion pack I have seen for any game on the market today. And what's more? They do this for entirely no fee, no wages. It is completely unbelievable the extensive amount of work that has gone into every single mod posted on this site, big or small, and there is no possible way I can thank YOU, all of you enough.
Please continue what you're doing, and if there's anything at all I can help with I'll do my best. I know very, very little about scripting. All I've done is modified XML files and such to my personal taste on other games that had already been modded by others. But don't worry I don't release them to anyone else. They're just for my personal enjoyment.

THANK YOU ALL

[Mush Martin]

Welcome aboard(ish) vince
were you a freelancer player?

[vince0018]

I don't exactly know what you mean by 'freelance.'
I play for fun, and don't know how to mod, though it'd be good to learn.

[vince0018]

With SHIII I use GWX2.1+OLCE2+OLC GUI Special+LRT2.02 as the main mods, I have all the patches and stuff to make them run together properly, and they all work well in the game. What I always like to do when I have extra spare time is use TC to get my game up to perfect time with my real time. So if it's 6:04am here it's 6:04am game time. Then I let it run in real time and pretend I'm really in the sub. But then I always had the problem where when I went to sleep something would happen while I was sleeping, nomatter how loud the volume, I might wake up with my sub destroyed or even just my men with pretty much zero fatigue and my ship stopped still. I guess it's not quite like real life where your men would be yelling in your face and the whole sub would be shaking from planes dropping DC's on your head.
Now I just play in real time when I'm awake, then when I sleep I shut down my computer and in the morning load my game up again and 'fast-forward' back to my time.
I must confess though that I don't play this game as much as I use to, only here and there now. But I'm pretty sure that's the same case for many others here.

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard matey

[vince0018]

Thanks. Kinda weird hearing that after having read so many, many posts for over a year at this site. I already feel like I know so many people here so well, yet they don't know me. Haha.
I'm really glad I finally convinced myself to actually register here. I was dying to get in some posts long ago about now long-forgotten topics. Now I can get in some posts before they become long forgotten.

[Murr44]

Welcome.

I think that you'll find that most of the people who frequent these boards are very kind & more than happy to assist if you have a question/problem.

[TarJak]

Welcome aboard Vince! Gute Jagd!

[Sailor Steve]

WELCOME ABOARD!

Originally Posted by vince0018

I already feel like I know so many people here so well, yet they don't know me. Haha.

At least you know the difference. It's funny sometimes to read a very first post by someone who immediately starts talking like we're old friends. You seem like someone who's going to fit right in.

[Reece]

Yes welcome Vince, you'll find we're just one big family here at Subsim!
Cheers.

[vince0018]

Wow. I look forward to future chats with all of you, thank-you

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Welcome,

To the best forum ever.


I don't have the brain power to mod so I support subsim & the modders with my SHA site.

Take a look at it & you may find things of interest.

[coronas]

Wellcome to the pack, Vince!

[nikbear]

Welcome aboard chap,you'll love it here

[Mush Martin]

Just the only game I knew that used xml files