After Campaign Change... what next ...Crew?

[Stevepine]

Seeing the new campaign take shape and the new ships added gradually to the game even made an old cynic like me feel a little excited.

Will the next focus be to fix the awful stock crew management system?

(Personally I hope we don't just settle for copying the SH4 system) What do you think?

(Seeing TDW work on making them run around the sub was fantastic and made me hopeful for the future of the game.)

[Rongel]

Originally Posted by Stevepine

Seeing the new campaign take shape and the new ships added gradually to the game even made an old cynic like me feel a little excited.

Will the next focus be to fix the awful stock crew management system?

(Personally I hope we don't just settle for copying the SH4 system) What do you think?

(Seeing TDW work on making them run around the sub was fantastic and made me hopeful for the future of the game.)

I think it would be great to see some kind of crew management system in SH 5. But fixing and improving the campaign is something that we have tools for. Creating a crew management requires totally new things and that is much more complicated, if not possible. Maybe somekind of DLL injection or reverse exe-stuff might make it happen, but that is really advanced modding and I think there isn't that many people here who can do/wan't to do that. I fear that the easy things are pretty much fixed by now, hard coded stuff is all that remains.

And we need more modders!

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Rongel

I think it would be great to see some kind of crew management system in SH 5. But fixing and improving the campaign is something that we have tools for. Creating a crew management requires totally new things and that is much more complicated, if not possible. Maybe somekind of DLL injection or reverse exe-stuff might make it happen, but that is really advanced modding and I think there isn't that many people here who can do/wan't to do that. I fear that the easy things are pretty much fixed by now, hard coded stuff is all that remains.

And we need more modders!

On a semi-related note, I am writing a role playing game for the Silent Hunter series (different personality types for the crew, random biographies, random events during crew watches, and so on). It sort of drives me crazy how you ship out with the same exact crewmembers every time.

If there is enough interest I may release it. As of right now it's designed to be played on paper; depending on what is or isn't possible to mod it may be integrated into the game itself.

[urfisch]

sign on that. would love to see full access to your whole crew! why not the sh4 style? the sh4 management system was better than sh3 management. but both gave great immersion, as you had access to every crew member on your boat!

the "management" as it is now, is not a management. its crap and unrealistic.

[Stevepine]

Originally Posted by urfisch

sign on that. would love to see full access to your whole crew! why not the sh4 style? the sh4 management system was better than sh3 management. but both gave great immersion, as you had access to every crew member on your boat!

the "management" as it is now, is not a management. its crap and unrealistic.

Well I bought sh4 and then didnt play it much. Im just 'old school' and preferred the sh3 type. Didnt really ever get to grips with the sh4 system.

[Hackerspy]

Yeah...what I love the most about the SH series was the realism that crew management in SH3 was giving! This was something exceptional and I am soo sad tha it is lacking in SH4(never learned how it is used) and SH5!