Time compression question

[Gargamel]

I fully understand the Human vs AI reaction time issue... but....

Don't you guys get really bored sailing to the Caribbean or other far off places at 8kts at 128x? I mean i go bonkers a 20kts at 1024 waiting to cross vast expanses of mindless ocean. And yes I have unlimited fuel turned on. I'd rather play a more real game, but I get bored too quick.

EDIT: Missed some of the thread, and I was really interested in Frau K's answer, and I got it. Still interested in others answers.

EDIT2: Was having issues with SC3H setting the times, sneaky sneaky way to force ya to read the pdf! Which i have no problem doing! (Side note: I think the GWX PDF is almost more awesome than the mod itself. Insane work people! ). So being able to crank it to 8kx, i'm goign to try more limited fuel patrols.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

Don't you guys get really bored sailing to the Caribbean or other far off places at 8kts at 128x? I mean i go bonkers a 20kts at 1024 waiting to cross vast expanses of mindless ocean. And yes I have unlimited fuel turned on. I'd rather play a more real game, but I get bored too quick.

I might get bored if I were sitting there just staring at the monitor for hours at a time, yeah. I won't say I haven't done that, because there are times when it's actually relaxing (a way to "decompress" from a far too hectic work week, for example).

But typically if I'm just sitting there with the game running, I will have the TV on in the same room and find something to watch, or I'll be reading a book, or doing something else that I can stop doing immediately if anything happens in the game that requires my attention. Other times I'll be up doing things in the same room - household chores like dusting or folding laundry. I'll go in and out of the room to do stuff as long as it doesn't involve getting out of earshot or so distracted that I miss an alert.

In a way that increases the realism for me, in RL it's not like a u-boat commander spent an entire patrol standing over the chart table monitoring their progress or up on the bridge assisting with the watch. He had to eat, sleep, and find ways to kill time when nothing was going on that required his immediate oversight or intervention. And with a good crew, that was probably most of the time.

I remember reading in one of Buchheim's books - I think it was U-Boat War - where he quoted Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock saying something like, a u-boat commander's first priority and most important "duty" was to be asleep whenever and however much he could... simply because, once they went into action, it might turn out to be a very long ordeal (either on offense or defense) during which he would have to be awake, alert, and making crucial split-second decisions for hours at a time.

So, you know, for increased realism... plot your course, go to 128 TC, and have a good nap. Just make sure the volume's high enough that any alert will be loud enough to wake you up.

[Kapt Z]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

But typically if I'm just sitting there with the game running, I will have the TV on in the same room and find something to watch, or I'll be reading a book, or doing something else that I can stop doing immediately if anything happens in the game that requires my attention. Other times I'll be up doing things in the same room - household chores like dusting or folding laundry. I'll go in and out of the room to do stuff as long as it doesn't involve getting out of earshot or so distracted that I miss an alert.

I find that my "SH3 time", usually after the girls are in bed and my wife is watching cooking shows, is the only time I get to catch up on my reading or chores anyway. Of course, if I latch onto a juicy convoy the chores might suffer......

I remember reading in one of Buchheim's books - I think it was U-Boat War - where he quoted Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock saying something like, a u-boat commander's first priority and most important "duty" was to be asleep whenever and however much he could... simply because, once they went into action, it might turn out to be a very long ordeal (either on offense or defense) during which he would have to be awake, alert, and making crucial split-second decisions for hours at a time.

Reminds me of a comment I heard somewhere years ago. Always thought it had to do with soldiers or those involved in combat.

Never stand when you can sit
Never sit when you can lay down
Never stay awake when you can sleep

'cause you never know when you'll get another chance

[Marko]

Originally Posted by SilentSnake

Its aug 1940 in my game and im sailing from lorient although my base has only just been changed because of the recent fall of france. Ive got CG85 and every time i start going down a convoy appears and i have to end up going back up to intercept it burning valuable fuel. I guess best tactic is to just sit their and wait for the convoys to appear. Just another question on compression though. Im using the GWX mod and whenever a big convoy is close to my sub the compression slows drastically. Does that happen to you guys?

It happens constantly that my frame rate drops for some seconds when something is near me. Most of convoys that i find are not from the bdu messages but from my frame rate "sensor" (the most reliable piece of equipment installed on my boat). As soon as it drop it is time to dive and somethng is out there very far , it could be a ship a convoy a plane, dolphins or shrimps but something is out there and the hunt starts.

[Sailor Steve]

I intentionally ignore those, just because I don't like to "game the game".

[Marko]

yeah i know, but it happens so frequently that is hard to ignore them.

[LGN1]

Hi,

if the frame rate drops suddenly, I tell myself that one man of my watch crew smelt some smoke in the air (in 'Das Boot' Buchheim writes that this sometimes happened). Then, I stay in the area a bit longer and look around, but usually don't find anything and continue my patrol.

Cheers, LGN1

[SilentSnake]

Originally Posted by Marko

It happens constantly that my frame rate drops for some seconds when something is near me. Most of convoys that i find are not from the bdu messages but from my frame rate "sensor" (the most reliable piece of equipment installed on my boat). As soon as it drop it is time to dive and somethng is out there very far , it could be a ship a convoy a plane, dolphins or shrimps but something is out there and the hunt starts.

lol are dolphins actually in the game. I dident actually realised mines were in the game till i stopped, went to periscope depth and waited for the weather to clear to find a big round spiked ball meters from my boat through the external view!!

[Marko]

i amnot sure if they are dolhins or shrimps but it is a sound of an animal of some kind. I ve got them on sonar from time to time. (in gwx , i do not not if they are in vanilla one)

[Jimbuna]

[Herr-Berbunch]

You did that on porpoise!

[Jimbuna]

LOL....I sea what you mean