Should U-Boat Training/Exams Be made Compulsory

mookiemookie · 12-13-09, 08:49 PM

I vote no. U-boat training school in Flensberg-Murwick in 1940 =/= Silent Hunter 5 training missions.

I'm a vet of the series. I know how to click on the compass to steer my boat and hit the "d" key in order to dive. Forcing me to go through a training mission every time I wanted to start a new career would irk me.

Plus, as game players, we have the benefit of a do-over in order to learn how things work, whereas IRL there are no second chances.

JScones · 12-14-09, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I vote no. U-boat training school in Flensberg-Murwick in 1940 =/= Silent Hunter 5 training missions.

I'm a vet of the series. I know how to click on the compass to steer my boat and hit the "d" key in order to dive. Forcing me to go through a training mission every time I wanted to start a new career would irk me.

Plus, as game players, we have the benefit of a do-over in order to learn how things work, whereas IRL there are no second chances.

Exactly my thoughts.

I do like how SH3 handles it - optional but with a renown bonus as an incentive. Do the training missions once and the renown earned carries forward through all careers.

looney · 12-14-09, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by JScones

Exactly my thoughts.

I do like how SH3 handles it - optional but with a renown bonus as an incentive. Do the training missions once and the renown earned carries forward through all careers.

Agreed I liked the SH3 way also. Heck you could mod the file if you absolutely didn't want to do the training.

I actually missed it in SH4 not to mention the training mission for the germans

Torplexed · 12-14-09, 05:57 AM

I vote no. It would be cheating as I didn't attend the months at the Naval Academy either.

flakmonkey · 12-14-09, 06:21 AM

I vote no, i earn my right to command when i buy the game, i dont want some stupid tutorial mission to say "no youre not good enough to play the game you just bought!"

It would be fine as an option, like the academy missions in previous games, and i would gladly go through some virtual training and take tests, but to make it compulsary is just plain dumb and would put a lot of people off.

Ritmeister · 12-14-09, 07:03 AM

Voted No, but it would be an intersting one of the "features" that gives more renown or access to better crew selection when starting a career.

Boris · 12-14-09, 07:24 AM

What are you talking about??? Experienced hands, expensive sub, chaps that have earned their right to be there? They haven't earned anything, they just do what the devs have scripted for them to do. I hate to break it to you, but the guys you have been spending your long patrols with on SH3 and 4, those friends you've come to know and love... they aren't real people at all, but nothing but data in a machine! It probably comes as a shock, but it's true! As real as Silent Hunter games may seem, it's just an elaborate computer programme designed to make you think you're actually a German U-Boat captain in WW2. In actuality your sub is worth nothing, your crew are nothing but robots, the tonnage you sink is not real, and the BdU that you get your orders from is not real. Your entire sense of reality may be shattered now, but fret not, just think of the awesome power this gives you. Knowing that it's all not real, you can be much more powerful than you have ever imagined... death means nothing to you now... you can perform the most daring raids concievable without fear... and even if you happen to be destroyed... you will remain, and may patrol again. And if this is all too hard to believe... here's the big one... you can do this all, patrol the seas, sinking ships, calculating difficult torpedo solutions... to live the life of a U-Boat commander... all of this, can be done with no formal training whatsover. Totally amazing, but 100% true.

Kaleun_Endrass · 12-14-09, 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I know how to click on the compass to steer my boat and hit the "d" key in order to dive.

SH5 having first person style view, maybe it also have FPS like controls. It would be very useless to run against the right wall in order to dive...
For the very first career it's not a waste of time I think to go through a small and simple tutorial mission to get familiar with the controls, the boat and all the new features of the game. That's why I voted with yes.

Undefined · 12-14-09, 04:49 AM

Yes because i am a noob

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12-13-09, 08:49 PM	#1
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	I vote no. U-boat training school in Flensberg-Murwick in 1940 =/= Silent Hunter 5 training missions. I'm a vet of the series. I know how to click on the compass to steer my boat and hit the "d" key in order to dive. Forcing me to go through a training mission every time I wanted to start a new career would irk me. Plus, as game players, we have the benefit of a do-over in order to learn how things work, whereas IRL there are no second chances. __________________ They don’t think it be like it is, but it do. Want more U-boat Kaleun portraits for your SH3 Commander Profiles? Download the SH3 Commander Portrait Pack here.

12-14-09, 06:21 AM	#5
flakmonkey Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Staffordshire, Uk Posts: 944 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	I vote no, i earn my right to command when i buy the game, i dont want some stupid tutorial mission to say "no youre not good enough to play the game you just bought!" It would be fine as an option, like the academy missions in previous games, and i would gladly go through some virtual training and take tests, but to make it compulsary is just plain dumb and would put a lot of people off. __________________

12-14-09, 05:57 AM	#4
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I vote no. It would be cheating as I didn't attend the months at the Naval Academy either.

12-14-09, 07:03 AM	#6
Ritmeister Seaman Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 39 Downloads: 111 Uploads: 0	Voted No, but it would be an intersting one of the "features" that gives more renown or access to better crew selection when starting a career.

12-14-09, 07:24 AM	#7
Boris Sea Lord Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Hamburg, Germany Posts: 1,691 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	What are you talking about??? Experienced hands, expensive sub, chaps that have earned their right to be there? They haven't earned anything, they just do what the devs have scripted for them to do. I hate to break it to you, but the guys you have been spending your long patrols with on SH3 and 4, those friends you've come to know and love... they aren't real people at all, but nothing but data in a machine! It probably comes as a shock, but it's true! As real as Silent Hunter games may seem, it's just an elaborate computer programme designed to make you think you're actually a German U-Boat captain in WW2. In actuality your sub is worth nothing, your crew are nothing but robots, the tonnage you sink is not real, and the BdU that you get your orders from is not real. Your entire sense of reality may be shattered now, but fret not, just think of the awesome power this gives you. Knowing that it's all not real, you can be much more powerful than you have ever imagined... death means nothing to you now... you can perform the most daring raids concievable without fear... and even if you happen to be destroyed... you will remain, and may patrol again. And if this is all too hard to believe... here's the big one... you can do this all, patrol the seas, sinking ships, calculating difficult torpedo solutions... to live the life of a U-Boat commander... all of this, can be done with no formal training whatsover. Totally amazing, but 100% true.

12-14-09, 04:49 AM	#9
Undefined Gunner Join Date: May 2009 Location: Estonia Posts: 97 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Yes because i am a noob