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[V13dweller]

Originally Posted by tat501

I don't get the hostility towards people wanting to play with a surface ship. WE KNOW its a sub sim. That's why we bought it and play it and mod it etc. But there isn't a ship sim set in the period on the market (that I know of - or that is any good anyway) and when we see the engine and what its capable off I think its entirely understandable that people would sometimes want to switch it up and put themselves into a tin can.

I for one would love to go Ocean Commerce raiding in Scharnhorst/Gniesenau/Bismarck/Tirpitz/Prinz Eugen etc - just imagine the thrill of breaking through the blockade - steaming into the Atlantic and looking for convoys to sink - in escort with another battleship perhaps and having to survive massed aircraft attack from carrier based torpedo bombers - running back to port to refit....

It'd be awesome. We all know it would take a huge huge amount of work by the talented modders. At the launch of the game people said - expect it in a few years when the bugs are ironed out.

We got the bugs ironed out. Then the modders started on gameplay improvements. The gameplay improvements are huge to this date. New UI's - whole new campaigns - whole new environmental mods - increased immersion - interiors etc.

Once these settle down again - it might be time for someone to look towards making a surface ship playable. I would be forever grateful anyway.

We understand this, but this would take unprecedented amounts of time, as we work for free and in our spare time.

Plus I don't know anyone who has a fully detailed model of a ship, with command decks, engine rooms, crew compartments, weapon stations, galley and all those other parts. Getting it all to work would also take huge amounts of time as the game was not designed to work like this.

We have not yet got a new playable submarine, but this is understandable, there are still many bugs that need to be squashed, I think these should get first priority over everything else, because if a new vehicle came out all of a sudden, all these old bus would plague this new vehicle along with new ones, and this would be very nasty to release such a mess.
(My opinion I think that hopes are set a bit high for a ship.)