Is anyone as NEARLY as obsessed with SH3 as me?

[Flopper]

Got the game about 9 weeks ago. I had to let out a roaring belly laugh when I saw my stats.



478.6 hours in 9 weeks. Just to top it off, I also have 79 hours in SH4, which I purchased in January. What a hoot!

[Damo]

Get a job!!

[flag4]

Originally Posted by Damo

Get a job!!

...in a submarine!!

[Sailor Steve]

I've been playing off and on for five years now, and SH4 for three.

Off, because I've spent some time without a permanent residence, which means my computer is in storage a lot. Off, because every time some new mod comes out I start over again in 1939, so I've never actually finished a single career.

So I spend a lot of time testing and combining mods, and I spend a lot of time researching my Ship Names mod.

Obsessed? Yes. Just not with actually playing the game.

[Flopper]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Obsessed? Yes. Just not with actually playing the game.

That's got me even more worred... I've spent a whole lot of time on subsim as well. I want to start modding, today! I've got it baaaad.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Flopper

I want to start modding, today!

Don't. It's an addiction.

Actually I would recommend not modding just because you want to. I don't mean that as a reverse negative but rather not to make that the only reason. Find something you want to see changed, then find out how to do it.

Start small, is all I'm saying.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Obsessed? Yes. Just not with actually playing the game.

I don't play every day, but there's rarely a day that I'm not tinkering with something SH3-related for at least a couple hours. Obviously I'm in here a lot and I'm always getting ideas about mods I could use or other things I could tinker with on my own.

I tend not to play much during the work week, if only because the temptation to keep going becomes irresistible... and I'll promise myself that I'll save and exit at a reasonable time, but when that time comes I am almost inevitably in some situation in-game where doing so is a very bad idea, and then I'm sitting there until 1 AM trying to sneak away from whatever tight spot I got myself into. That I know this, and still usually fire up the game at least once between Mon-Fri almost every week, probably speaks volumes.

On the weekends when I'm not worried so much about time constraints it's not unusual for me to be playing for anywhere from 6-10 hours straight. A lot of that might be done in real time where I'm not sitting at the PC but up doing other things, only keeping an ear out for any reports of contacts or whatever. That's a new experience for me with games and I'm still getting used to the idea that, with SH3, I can plot a course and leave the game running in real time and not have to be RIGHT THERE eyeballing the map or keeping watch every second that passes. Which is nice! If I'm sitting right there of course and the situation allows for it I'll bump the TC up.

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I'll save and exit at a reasonable time, but when that time comes I am almost inevitably in some situation in-game where doing so is a very bad idea, and then I'm sitting there until 1 AM trying to sneak away from whatever tight spot I got myself into.

Two of a kind.
This is what happens to me also, and I get "stuck" for hours.

Oh! I have the same initial installation as you, before we went our own ways with modding.
With this installation can I "Save and Exit"?
Or am I still forced to keep my PC running 24/7, as was the case with my original install?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Flopper

Got the game about 9 weeks ago. I had to let out a roaring belly laugh when I saw my stats.



478.6 hours in 9 weeks. Just to top it off, I also have 79 hours in SH4, which I purchased in January. What a hoot!

What is this game SH you speak of?