Immersion

Sailor Steve · 10-17-11, 09:07 PM

For me turning on the game and letting it run while I do something else is not immersion, nor is it actually playing the game. I run in and out of harbors in real time, and conduct attacks that way, but I've never understood how not playing the game in real time is any more "real" than using time compression. When I was in the navy I spent a lot of my time wishing I was somewhere else.

If you really want to experience the boredom and idleness, don't read a book, don't listen to the radio, don't do anything but sit and stare at the screen, for hours on end. Otherwise you're not playing the game at all, you're ignoring it.

10-17-11, 09:07 PM	#6
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	For me turning on the game and letting it run while I do something else is not immersion, nor is it actually playing the game. I run in and out of harbors in real time, and conduct attacks that way, but I've never understood how not playing the game in real time is any more "real" than using time compression. When I was in the navy I spent a lot of my time wishing I was somewhere else. If you really want to experience the boredom and idleness, don't read a book, don't listen to the radio, don't do anything but sit and stare at the screen, for hours on end. Otherwise you're not playing the game at all, you're ignoring it. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo