If it's Stupid but it Works, Is it still stupid?

Kaptlt.Endrass · 06-07-14, 01:04 AM

Copy on the realism, Steve.

Just tired of failed 1943 attempts that I wanted to spice it up, per se, in another career.

Although my shiny new Type XXI should help with that.

Sailor Steve · 06-07-14, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Kaptlt.Endrass

Copy on the realism, Steve.

Let me just say here that while I play as realistically (by my lights) as I can, I don't believe everybody (or anybody) else should. It's just that we've had periods of time in which we were assailed by players bragging about how many millions of tons they sank. They got questioned on the level they were playing at etc. I always like to point out that in Sid Meier's Pirates I turned the entire Spanish Main into the English main...on Level 3. On Level 4 I never survived more than a week.

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Just tired of failed 1943 attempts that I wanted to spice it up, per se, in another career.

You have to play the way that suits you, or else what's the point? The way that suits me is to pretend I'm really there, and my crew's lives depend on every decision I make. But I try not to forget that I've been playing subsims since Silent Service 1, which was 1985.

Jimbuna · 06-07-14, 07:54 AM

Play the way you get the most enjoyment from. One mans meat is sometimes another mans poison.

Kaptlt.Endrass · 06-07-14, 11:03 AM

Jahwol, Herr Kaluen.

Back to 89% realism.

Sailor Steve · 06-07-14, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

One mans meat is sometimes another mans poison.

-Anonymous

"One man's theology is another man's belly-laugh."
-Robert A. Heinlein.

"One gamer's must-have mod is another gamer's waste of time."
-Sailor Steve

maillemaker · 06-09-14, 10:02 AM

After screwing up a convoy approach a couple of nights ago, where I mag-shot 3 Black Swans but they did not sink - they take a hit and run back into convoy formation after getting damaged - it was dark so I blew ballast and shot to the surface, manned the guns, and was able to take down the wounded Black Swan from about 3400 m. I hit them several times to sink and they never hit me back.

Guess I'm better with the gun in GWX than I thought.

Don't think I'd try this during the day though.

Steve

06-07-14, 01:04 AM	#1
Kaptlt.Endrass Sonar Guy Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: No Longer On A Big Grey Floaty Thing Posts: 395 Downloads: 116 Uploads: 0	Copy on the realism, Steve. Just tired of failed 1943 attempts that I wanted to spice it up, per se, in another career. Although my shiny new Type XXI should help with that. __________________ "That flag and I are twins, born in the same hour from the same womb of destiny. We cannot be parted in life or in death; so long as we float, we shall float together." As much as I dislike it sometimes, I'm a tin can sailor, through and through.

06-07-14, 07:54 AM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,788 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Play the way you get the most enjoyment from. One mans meat is sometimes another mans poison. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

06-07-14, 11:03 AM	#4
Kaptlt.Endrass Sonar Guy Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: No Longer On A Big Grey Floaty Thing Posts: 395 Downloads: 116 Uploads: 0	Jahwol, Herr Kaluen. Back to 89% realism. __________________ "That flag and I are twins, born in the same hour from the same womb of destiny. We cannot be parted in life or in death; so long as we float, we shall float together." As much as I dislike it sometimes, I'm a tin can sailor, through and through.

06-09-14, 10:02 AM	#6
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	After screwing up a convoy approach a couple of nights ago, where I mag-shot 3 Black Swans but they did not sink - they take a hit and run back into convoy formation after getting damaged - it was dark so I blew ballast and shot to the surface, manned the guns, and was able to take down the wounded Black Swan from about 3400 m. I hit them several times to sink and they never hit me back. Guess I'm better with the gun in GWX than I thought. Don't think I'd try this during the day though. Steve