Whispered greetings below the seas

[SilentPan]

Hi there!

After reading a lot of stuff over the years at this here great site, and even registering at one point or another, it seems the time has come to write my first post. Sadly, though, I'm only doing this because I really really want to download one of the mods .. well, so much for my one and only first impression

But at least I can still write a proper introduction. Before that, however, I would very much like to praise the absolutely amazing work the modders in the Silent Hunter forums have created, refined, and merged into packages that deliver some truly great, rewarding, and simply unbelievably awesome gaming experiences. If I would wear a hat, I would tip it at you right now. In fact, I would throw my hat away, buy an even bigger hat, and tip THAT at you, at least twice! Alas, I do not wear a hat, and a shame that is without a doubt.

Anyways: Thanks for all the fun I ever had getting blown to bits 150 feet under

Also, some customary background about a much more passionate than capable dude who sinks a lot of his own U-Boats:
I started way way back with Silent Hunter 2, but had no idea whatsoever of what I was doing and soon thereafter quit the whole business. Some years later, however, I realized that a) there's a time compressing feature, and b) it is actually not mandatory to sneak out the harbor at two knots in silent running, thinking the enemy is about to appear at a moment's notice. I actually managed to sink a few destroyers after a while (I let them see me, and fired away from periscope depth while they were running over me at full speed 400 yards in front of my face).

Some time later, Silent Hunter 3 came out, and even with only marginal experience, I was extremely excited and immediately got it. And low and behold, what an amazing game that was! By the time I realized I kept missing wasn't actually my own fault, but that of a billion bugs, the community had already fixed them, and I happily got sunk again

I also tried a little bit of 688i, which I also liked a great deal. In fact, I think to this date that it was as entertaining as it was horribly ugly. I'm looking very interested at Dangerous Waters right now, and am pondering getting the manual alone for some reading and getting the game once I feel comfortable enough about its systems.

Anyways, I've been a subsimmer for quite some time now, and once in a while that old familiar feeling grabs me again and I just have to take some deep diving lessons. Last time it was Silent Hunter 3, with the (then new) absolutely outstanding GWX3.0 mod (if you had a part in this, by any chance, consider yourself to be my personal hero, right next to Batman). This time it will probably be the fourth installment, and after three days of digging through a (metric) crapton of mods, I think I might actually start playing my first patrol in a few minutes. After I got this new mod I mentioned above, that is *

All in all: (again) a big thank you all around for keeping these games exciting over all those years, fixing and adding all the stuff you kept punching out during all this time!

Cheers!




*Edit: Download doesn't work. **Edit: But now it did, and totally rocks the boat!

[BossMark]

A very warm welcome

[frau kaleun]

Wilkommen an bord!

it is actually not mandatory to sneak out the harbor at two knots in silent running, thinking the enemy is about to appear at a moment's notice

See, now, I went to the other n00b extreme, preferring instead to barrel out of the pens at flank speed and leave my escort behind in a cloud of diesel exhaust.

[Gerald]

[Jimbuna]

Wilkommen

[SilentPan]

My my, what a warm welcome that is. Thanks a lot, and glad to be on board!

barrel out of the pens at flank speed

It took me quite a while to realize that 'flank speed' is - in fact - not another term for 'default speed'. Only when suddenly stopping in the middle of the north sea after a moderately successful patrol I checked my map and began thinking I'm probably doing something wrong.

@jimbuna: You are - for lack of a better phrase - one of the Grey Wolf dudes, right? In the words of the old country: major props! I know a little bit about all this new computer stuff to have a very vague idea of the amount of time you and your fellow modders must have put into your masterpiece.. glad you took the time

[Fish In The Water]

Greetings and welcome aboard SilentPan!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by SilentPan

Sadly, though, I'm only doing this because I really really want to download one of the mods .. well, so much for my one and only first impression

But at least I can still write a proper introduction.

That's a lot better than "Your downloads policy sucks! Gimme my mods!" Which is one we've seen more than a few times. That, and the guys who post once and are never heard from again. At least you took the time to say a few words.

So WELCOME ABOARD!

[Magic1111]

Welcome aboard!!!

[Herr-Berbunch]

Welcome aboard

Great intro, looks like you'd fit in well on the boards if you don't download and scoot (like the others ). My only warning would be that after a while of visiting without the specific aim of a mod or help in some way, that you'll find yourself playing less and less SH, and more and more randomly trawling the threads to find out who is doing what in this fine community.

[SilentPan]

Nah, now that I registered, at the very least I'll post in the [REL] threads of the mods I'm checking out, to give the guys working on them some feedback. (Like the Optical Targeting Correction, sweet bliss that it is )

Also, getting lost in subsim discussions is fine with me. I often find it's hard to keep at simulation gaming when the market is flooded with fast-reward games, so it's nice to have a community to remind oneself of the stuff you only get from simming

"Your downloads policy sucks! Gimme my mods!" Which is one we've seen more than a few times.

Seriously? Well, I'd suggest an answer to that: it consists of the words "ban" and "permanent", not necessarily in that order

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by SilentPan

Seriously? Well, I'd suggest an answer to that: it consists of the words "ban" and "permanent", not necessarily in that order

It would normally take a bit more than the above to trigger a ban but those who do post the above usually go on to make more serious comments and that is the point action if any would be given careful consideration.