Renown in GWX

[Hottentot]

I wasn't bashing the developers, even less any specific developers. What confuses me is that this happens in most sims. Actually I can't think any sim from the top of my head that doesn't have a system like this. Dangerous Waters might have implemented credit for damage, but I'm not sure since it has been a while since I played it.

And as you said, the developers probably could do it, I don't doubt that either. So I just find it confusing that no sim hasn't (as far as I know) implemented anything like this, when on the other hand we keep seeing more and more advanced details in the simulation itself. I guess in the end it's a cousin to the question "if Aces of the deep had wolfpacks, why doesn't the Silent Hunter III have them?"

[Sailor Steve]

Ah. Good point, then.

[Damo]

I now and again play Eve Online ( I know, I know, shush now...), but they have a great approach to damage and kill crediting. Every ship destroyed by players will produce a killmail, a record of the engagement that details the percentage of damage caused by each person involved, even those that are purely logistics, just jamming a ships sensors or disrupting it's warpdrive without actually causing physical damage. No 'shouldershooters' here (yes I fly IL2 too so there's my redemption), and everyone gets a slice of the pie.

Now if only simulations would put in an algorithm that measures the damage sustained from each source, so storm damage would get a percentage, the player shooting would also, the one that causes the most damage gets the credit. I've only ever really thought this way about IL2 but your post has highlighted the fact that it could be a very welcome system in countless other games too, including SH.

And Sailor Steve, when you say they don't know whether we're gonna be picky or not, Ubi really should have taken a long hard look at these forums before they even started working on SH5, cos they obviously didn't did they? LOL. That's a whole new conversation that's been thrashed out all too often already me thinks...