Silent Hunter 5 Announced?

[JALU3]

Hire some of the better moders as part time contractors, I am sure that this would help the development team do things that they would find tedious, but the gaming community find as intregal. That way those little things that us players like, are in the base package, and in the end, makes less work for modders to do from the base package.

[Diopos]

Originally Posted by JALU3

Hire some of the better moders as part time contractors, I am sure that this would help the development team do things that they would find tedious, but the gaming community find as intregal. That way those little things that us players like, are in the base package, and in the end, makes less work for modders to do from the base package.

Why hire them when they do their modding for free anyway? In fact an active "modding community" has the opposite effect in the managment of such projects, ie "why spent money/time in redesigning/finetuning/doublechecking the game engine when the modders will do that for free and keep the game alive for (possibly) years after the initial release?" I think the basic parameters the publishers are interested in are, graphics, ways of attracting casual players and time of release. Most "dedicated" sub simmers will buy it, anyway (or that's what they think at least!). Keep in mind that as things are now there are not many game publishers involved in sub sims so they're not under any pressure by the competition eh!