Playing in Real Time

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by MADLOU

Does anyone play this, or any other subsim, in real time?

Someone did a patrol in RT once. I really can't see doing that. It would just be too arduous. I played a patrol using celestial navigation once, and that nearly made me stop playing. Playing in RT, I think, would be worse. I can see playing with a TC limit of 32x or 64x, but not 1x.

I think Sailor makes a good point. Staring at a computer monitor and playing a game, for hours on end is not the same as being on a submarine at war, for hours on end. In the end you would have to do other things anyway.

I agree the high TC, warping from target to target, makes for an unrealistic game, but this can be better handled by using RSRDC and not ambushing targets, and limiting TC to a reasonable level, not using map contacts, and things of this sort.

Really, if you do a RT patrol, there wouldn't be much to do, in between contacts. You could move around the crew, but this only amounts to rearranging cardboard cut-outs to combat boredom. There is little practical benefit to it.

^ Maybe some do... But obviously they can't post on the forums

Yeah, you never know.

[Hinrich Schwab]

I responded in a similar thread about my experiences.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=199341

I would not recommend that others do what I did. For me, it was an experiment of sorts. Time compression is your friend.