The One Month Challenge

[raymond6751]

Make preparations for a month-long patrol at TCx1 in real time. The following are the requirements:

1> Inform your wife, live-in girlfriend, or other senior officer of your intent to man-up and do this thing. Suggest that they make plans to visit Mom, girlfriends, or other relatives to reduce crew stress aboard.

2> Your SH game must run continuously for 30 days at normal speed. If this must be interupted, missed time must be made up - extending your patrol to add missed time. No other conditions can be interupted or you lose the challenge!

3> Get two empty buckets or coffee cans and fill both with diesel fuel. For safety, pour out the fuel into a proper fuel container - keeping just the residue in the buckets. The buckets or cans shall be placed near your computer to give the diesel aroma. Do not clean the buckets.

4> At your first opportunity during the patrol, urinate or vomit into one of the cans. Do not flush, keeping the contents to add to the aroma of your sub.

5> You may go to the washroom, but flush the toilet only once per day.

6> You may not get a haircut, shave, bathe, or brush teeth with water during your patrol.

7> You may not change clothes nor launder them on patrol.

8> You may not change your bedding during the patrol.

9> If you live in a warm climate, windows and doors must remain closed at all times, except as necessary. Time outside counts same as computer off and will be made up at patrol end.

10> If you live in a cool climate, the window in the computer room is left open and furnace off, except when senior officer is home.

11> Four times a day you may splash cold water on your face, but not dry it off. No soap.

12> Sleep no more than four hours at a time, followed by eight hours or more awake. Four hours in the eight must be sitting at your game computer.

13> Do no exercises of any kind during the patrol, except climbing up and down a stepladder at least once per hour.

14> For six hours, continuous, each day there must be total silence except for game produced sounds.

15> Do not listen to radio, TV, answer the phone, nor run a web browser during the patrol.

Good Hunting

[Kruger]

I would say you missed the part where one must go prior to this to the supermarket and stock with canned spam, baked beans, salt biscuits, a couple of beers (not more than one per week) and some porn magazines.

[V13dweller]

This would be interesting in a Motion Simulator, especially using the realistic waves mod.

[Ktl_KUrtz]

...and take some before and after photo's for the month.
KUrtz

[tat501]

Are you seriously going to try and do this???

[raymond6751]

I'd seriously love to try this. Real life demands would, as for all of us, get in the way. Fun to think about though.

[Glock30Eric]

Originally Posted by tat501

Are you seriously going to try and do this???

LOL I really doubt!

[raymond6751]

I seriously would try this, if I was living alone. Talk about ambience!

[Mork_417]

Longest i've ever played was back in 2006, SH3. Started after work on Friday, and played until i had to go work on Monday morning. Took two to three hour naps on the couch, with the pc volume turned up, but that didn't really work out too well. I do remember by mid-day Saturday, i gave in and turned the tv on while i was still playing.

All in all, it wasn't as much fun as i had thought it was going to be. Went to work on Monday, exhausted.

[tat501]

Yeah I've thought about leaving it on whilst I go to sleep at times but I just know the whisper of "rauch am horizon" won't wake me up properly. Its not like the watch officer can come and smack me in the face or pour cold water over me (which is what it takes sometimes) to wake me up! So I never dare do it.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by raymond6751

I seriously would try this, if I was living alone. Talk about ambience!

I do live alone, and it's something I would never do. I've been in the navy, and while I treasure that time in my life, I wouldn't want to do it again. It's fun to pretend, but pretending can only take one so far. I also like watching movies and working on my own games, doing research into all eras of human history and music history, and spending hours seeing where those searches take me. While I play Silent Hunter I like to feel as much as possible like I'm really there. That includes playing as realistically as I know how. It doesn't include doing nothing but sitting in front of the monitor for days on end waiting for something to happen. To me that's not realistic at all.

[RustySubmarine]

I like Steve, live on my own now (having lost my wife a few years ago) and being an ex submariner during the sixties, I know what it's like to be cooked up in a boat for weeks on end, sharing a bunk with another stoker (motorman) and smelling like rat **** gone off. I can assure you it's not very pleasant I can tell you. Playing Silent Hunter brings back many memories for me, but it's nice to think that I can still be back on a sub in the comfort of my own home, without the smells, boredom and lack of fresh air, that you get on a real sub. Not like the new nuclear boats of today, where you all get a bunk each, air conditioning, proper bathrooms with showers, even a laundry and decent food that is always fresh. The old diesel boats that I served on where maybe a little bit better than the older u boats, but not a great deal.

[BoBigR]

Hi, new from Australia and newly joined so need to know when to change the bedding and what about the kids. Could we bring them here?

[Aktungbby]

BoBigR!No need 4 U to change the bedding hot bunking! just bribe your bunk-mate to do it: a can of beer and extra Spam! Lock the cats out though; they always want attention..., always right in the middle of an intense firing solution!

Originally Posted by raymond6751

...

4> At your first opportunity during the patrol, urinate or vomit into one of the cans. Do not flush, keeping the contents to add to the aroma of your sub.

...

6> You may not get a haircut, shave, bathe, or brush teeth with water during your patrol.

7> You may not change clothes nor launder them on patrol.

...

12> Sleep no more than four hours at a time, followed by eight hours or more awake. Four hours in the eight must be sitting at your game computer.

13> Do no exercises of any kind during the patrol, except climbing up and down a stepladder at least once per hour.

14> For six hours, continuous, each day there must be total silence except for game produced sounds.

15> Do not listen to radio, TV, answer the phone, nor run a web browser during the patrol.

...

Good Hunting

Originally Posted by RustySubmarine

... smelling like rat **** gone off.

Originally Posted by Ktl_KUrtz

... and take some before and after photo's for the month.

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Lock the cats out though; they always want attention..., always right in the middle of an intense firing solution!

More seriously, I know a guy on the SH3 forum (bstanko6) who has a more clever way to play the game in real time. :

"What I like to do is track the hours of off time I don't play SH3. So let's say 24 hours go by. I consider this 24 hours of game time I get to play with. Once I hit the 24th hour of game time, I can only use 1TC!

Why do I do this? It makes me think about each move I make in SH3. It also makes me think about using TC!"

But if you really want to feel like a submariner, so yeah, that's the method I believe !

Welcome in your Iron Coffin, the Hell's prefiguration !