The most reckless/foolish thing you have ever done?

[sublynx]

Originally Posted by SummerStorm

Can I ask, and no offense to you, but do you play without compression and without saving. I see a large percentage of people go on about realism etc but I don' get it fully. The only way of being "realistic" is never saving and never accelerating speed and frankly I hope there are no members like that .

Hell no, I would not play the game at full realism. That would mean suffocating myself etc in real life if I get hit in the game. With realistic I mean something that gives enough of a feeling of how an actual U-boat commander might have thought in different situations. With me that means 100 % realism in the game settings, not seeing any map contacts, even my own sub in F5 screen, trying to follow the actual orders that were given during the war, ending the career if I get sunk, time compression max 128 in order to keep the airplanes in the air. But that is not enough for some people and I've read posts by people who play in real time. That's a bit too hardcore for me

It's a shame that airplanes and time compression don't work properly. If they did I might use more TC and actually have time to play the game

[SummerStorm]

Originally Posted by sublynx

Hell no, I would not play the game at full realism. That would mean suffocating myself etc in real life if I get hit in the game. With realistic I mean something that gives enough of a feeling of how an actual U-boat commander might have thought in different situations. With me that means 100 % realism in the game settings, not seeing any map contacts, even my own sub in F5 screen, trying to follow the actual orders that were given during the war, ending the career if I get sunk, time compression max 128 in order to keep the airplanes in the air. But that is not enough for some people and I've read posts by people who play in real time. That's a bit too hardcore for me

It's a shame that airplanes and time compression don't work properly. If they did I might use more TC and actually have time to play the game

Completely agree with you in the sentiments. Thanks for the reply.
TC is the only way I could possible play and yeah I admit it robs the game of a lot but then again it is a game. As for playing till sunk, I in general do to but when I was starting kept retrying a lot of things to have the opportunity of learning. Main thing I learned is never think you can run away from trouble

[Gargamel]

Missed this thread first time 'round..... so here goes.....

Sank myself with my own eel.

Nuff said.

I think Missing Name made some 'fan' art of it somewhere.


OK.. ok...

It was late '44 or early '45, in a XXI, I decided to take a peak into New York. I ran the 'deep' channel (all 20m of it or so) for as long as I could. Eventually, I had to run with the tip of my bridge almost surfaced, and then I saw this torpedo boat coming at me. So I figured I could pick him off with a homing eel. Somehow he picked me up i think, and came at me, towing the eel behind it as they have about the same speed. I think i panicked and went to flank, which then the eel locked onto me as it passed, and kerpow, therres goes that career.

Yup. That was dumb. On all accounts.