Your Silent Hunter Experience

[Sailor Steve]

We had a thread on this not too long ago, and I made huge long replies I was going to point to in order not to have to do it again.

I'll be hung-and-dried if I can find it now.

[Tessa]

Right now play with either 84 or 87% realism (haven't started a new patrol in quite awhile) and firmly believe the main point of the game is to have fun; what fun constitutes for some people can harshly oppose other people's style. Long as you play by the rules/realism you have set (and potentially other self inforced penalties/game play methods) and play fair and square, if you enjoy the game and are having fun its done it job.

As someone pointed out several weeks ago, the only way to get real 100% realism would be to stop showering completely, hang up all your food randomly about your house/condo/etc and then sleep in your bed (which you haven't washed any of the sheets for at least 6 months or more) to get a genuine 100% realism.

My style of play (hunting warships/task forces and harbor raids when they're juicy targets inside) generally conflicts with a lot of people's preferred way; while I do enjoy it uses a completely 180 stategy of the tactics that were generally applied. My thinking has always been to destroy all the warships/escorts in order to deplete the fleet such that in due time convoys will have no option but to start going unescorted or maybe can only afford 1 escort (had this been the real tactics and outcome).

On a different note......was up at my (now departed) grandmother's place up in Los Angeles with my dad (tagged along so we could both go Japan town after he took care of business with the realator) and found an old skool ice cream man driving around the neighborhood in a van playing the same song they all play. By no means was it a hot day, but buying something from the ice cream man isn't something I've been able to do since I was in elementary school; since then they've all disapeared. Was quite fun for a nostalgic moment

[B.N.R.T.]

Originally Posted by Tessa

As someone pointed out several weeks ago, the only way to get real 100% realism would be to stop showering completely, hang up all your food randomly about your house/condo/etc and then sleep in your bed (which you haven't washed any of the sheets for at least 6 months or more) to get a genuine 100% realism.

That is utter nonsense.

You do not hang up your food randomly, you make sure you can get to everything when you need it and that it does not mess up the trim of your boat (or house).

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by B.N.R.T.

That is utter nonsense.

You do not hang up your food randomly, you make sure you can get to everything when you need it and that it does not mess up the trim of your boat (or house).

Having personally been inside a few u-boats they is no exaggeration about the lack of space, then having to take rations for 30-40 days worth that's a lot of food (and no freezer/fridge) to store. While there may be an underlying organization to the entire food supply, you can still end up with all your fruit in the stern compartment depending on the size of your crew at the time.

One of the sports I like to do is deep sea fishing (yea a very very odd one for a girl to enjoy) while on long trips (several days) you start to get ripe pretty fast, then crawling back into your same bunk/stateroom bed being unable to shower just perputuates the stench (granted since everyone is in the same position you get used to it much faster) every day the boat remains out at sea. Even though you get used to/accustomed to the funk that everyone else has towards the end of the trip it can get downright nasty, I couldn't imagine spending an additional 2 weeks on the same boat with some other fisherman that were onboard.

[Schwieger]

Originally Posted by Tessa

Right now play with either 84 or 87% realism (haven't started a new patrol in quite awhile) and firmly believe the main point of the game is to have fun; what fun constitutes for some people can harshly oppose other people's style. Long as you play by the rules/realism you have set (and potentially other self inforced penalties/game play methods) and play fair and square, if you enjoy the game and are having fun its done it job.

As someone pointed out several weeks ago, the only way to get real 100% realism would be to stop showering completely, hang up all your food randomly about your house/condo/etc and then sleep in your bed (which you haven't washed any of the sheets for at least 6 months or more) to get a genuine 100% realism.

My style of play (hunting warships/task forces and harbor raids when they're juicy targets inside) generally conflicts with a lot of people's preferred way; while I do enjoy it uses a completely 180 stategy of the tactics that were generally applied. My thinking has always been to destroy all the warships/escorts in order to deplete the fleet such that in due time convoys will have no option but to start going unescorted or maybe can only afford 1 escort (had this been the real tactics and outcome).

On a different note......was up at my (now departed) grandmother's place up in Los Angeles with my dad (tagged along so we could both go Japan town after he took care of business with the realator) and found an old skool ice cream man driving around the neighborhood in a van playing the same song they all play. By no means was it a hot day, but buying something from the ice cream man isn't something I've been able to do since I was in elementary school; since then they've all disapeared. Was quite fun for a nostalgic moment

You forgot to mention never putting the TC above x1

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Schwieger

You forgot to mention never putting the TC above x1

DOH! Caught me on that one Also too you get no TV at all, only the books/crossword puzzles/comic you bring along with you to pass the time and whatever your radioman is able to tune in (which in the no air coverage areas is usually nothing), and to be nice since most people don't have turntables (for that matter I belt most don't know that one is these days) you get a mp3 player but only get to load 25 or so songs regardless of the capacity of the device (records took up a large space, having a large musical library onboard was a major luxuary).

[redsocialist]

Well I defiently see the need for the "dead your dead rule", and only save for CTD and of course saving progress. Also I see the need for crew fatigue. How else would you model this in? Perhaps programming the crew to shift every 8-12 hours considering the intensity of the task inside the u boat? what do you think?

[Sailor Steve]

That's one of the improvements that came with SH4 - the crew are shown in three separate shifts, and they rotate themselves out regularly.

Can't be done in SH3.

[redsocialist]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

That's one of the improvements that came with SH4 - the crew are shown in three separate shifts, and they rotate themselves out regularly.

Can't be done in SH3.

ehhh I still think SH3 is the best

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by redsocialist

ehhh I still think SH3 is the best

Nothing wrong with that. Just don't go say it on the SH5 boards.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Nothing wrong with that. Just don't go say it on the SH5 boards.

What's SH5?