Rage And Frustration

[Sailor Steve]

It seems that once again I can't play SH3. I don't know how many times this makes, since I lost count long ago. I finally have it set up exactly the way I want it. This time I saw Jim's picture of Rowi's 'NGM' merchant and realized that while I had the GWX version of the Community Units mod installed, that ship and some others had empty folders, with only the .sil picture files. So I installed the complete Community Units mod and started a new patrol. The game crashed. I uninstalled the CU mod and tried again. It still crashed.

I've been going through this same procedure for six years, and have never once had a career progress past 1940. Hardly ever die, just lose the game.

I would dearly love to dump SH3 altogether and just play SH4, which never seems to crash for me, but, as I've complained many times before, SH4 doesn't have the harbors, the bridges, the raiseable flags and antennae, the ship names, the crew names, pretty much all of the little things that make me play SH3. So I end up playing nothing.

And it looks like I'll continue playing nothing for the forseeable future. I'm sure that in a week or two I won't be able to stand it anymore and I'll strip it out and start all over again, but at times like this I have to wonder what I'm even doing here. Sorry to be all depressive, but that's the way I feel.