Is anyone as NEARLY as obsessed with SH3 as me?

[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?

[frau kaleun]

Not sure what you mean...

I hit 'Esc' and choose 'Save' to make a save game, if I just want to make a save game at some point and then continue on with a patrol.

I hit 'Esc' and choose 'Save and Exit' if I'm mid-patrol but ready to stop playing, and that would be the save game I load whenever I come back and want to continue that patrol from where I left off. Once I've done 'Save and Exit' I can exit the career, exit the game, shut down the computer, whatever, no problem. That last save game lets me pick up right where I left off when I go back in to continue that career/patrol.

But I don't do any kind of saves when I'm submerged or within visual range of another ship, cuz I've heard that can cause problems when such a save game is loaded up again. This is how I end up playing sometimes for much longer than I'd anticipated, because I get into a sticky situation that I have to get out of before I will risk making a save game.

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Not sure what you mean...

I hit 'Esc' and choose 'Save and Exit' if I'm mid-patrol but ready to stop playing, and that would be the save game I load whenever I come back and want to continue that patrol from where I left off. Once I've done 'Save and Exit' I can exit the career, exit the game, shut down the computer, whatever, no problem. That last save game lets me pick up right where I left off when I go back in to continue that career/patrol.

THANK YOU! DANKE! TAK!

My first install of SH3 was the original issue (with Star Force, and patched by me) would not let me "Save and Exit". If I tryed it SH3 gave me 2 options.
1: Continue Patrol.
2: Abandon Carreer.
So I got used to leaving the computer, and SH3, run 24/7 until I finished my patrol.

Since installing the new version (SH2 & SH3 package), I was realy hoping that was fixed, but was a-bit timmed (en.sp.?) about experimenting.

With your words of wisdom on the matter, I shall try it.

Thank you again for the reply.
As a IXaholic, at 100% realism, the patrols can go for months.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

THANK YOU! DANKE! TAK!

My first install of SH3 was the original issue (with Star Force, and patched by me) would not let me "Save and Exit". If I tryed it SH3 gave me 2 options.
1: Continue Patrol.
2: Abandon Carreer.
So I got used to leaving the computer, and SH3, run 24/7 until I finished my patrol.

Since installing the new version (SH2 & SH3 package), I was realy hoping that was fixed, but was a-bit timmed (en.sp.?) about experimenting.

With your words of wisdom on the matter, I shall try it.

Thank you again for the reply.
As a IXaholic, at 100% realism, the patrols can go for months.

Hope it works for you.

It took me several tries to figure out how to make a savegame, lol. I didn't realize at first that you had to name the save, hit 'Save,' then hit 'Save' again to accomplish it.

I don't remember if that's the case with the 'Save and Exit' but when you DO successfully save your game, you should get a popup window that tells you so and you click 'ok' or whatever.

Anyway, once I do the 'Save & Exit' and the game saves successfully, I think it takes me immediately to a screen that gives me the option to exit the game rather than exiting the patrol and docking back at wherever my home port is. And then I just go back into that saved career and load that last save to continue or finish the patrol.

You can always start a 'test' career and go out on patrol and then try the 'Save and Exit' as soon as you're in a safe spot to make a savegame, and see what happens and make sure it does what you want before trying it in your current 'real' career. That way you'll know it works for you before you risk anything that you don't want to lose.

[Wreford-Brown]

I need to get back to just playing the game. I'm constantly tinkering with mods and have spent the last three weeks or so testing them for myself and a few others - load game, find the new bit that needs testing, exit, repeat.

Once the additional ships mod v2.9 is out I'll sit back for a bit and enjoy... although I have said that before!