Manned ships?

Corsair · 12-07-06, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TDK1044

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Originally Posted by Corsair

There is sometimes some sign of life when they start shooting back at you...

But only from the ship itself. There's nobody manning the gun.

Would be worried if I was close enough to see it.

TDK1044 · 12-07-06, 02:48 PM

Numerous times I've attacked an armed tanker on the surface using my deck gun, and by using the binoculars you can clearly see the empty deck of the ship you're attacking. It feels very strange attacking a ghost ship.

AJ! · 12-07-06, 03:01 PM

Or of course you could go up to the ship using the free view camera

The ship crews were so brave in SH3. whenever their ship went down they would just stand there motionless at their posts.

Sailor Steve · 12-07-06, 04:52 PM

It feels funny to me reading stuff like this. On the one hand, you're right to demand ever more new stuff and complain when it looks clunky or blocky, but on the other I've been playing subsims since Silent Service and this was the first to have a crew at all, so it's still new and different.

How quickly we become jaded.

TDK1044 · 12-08-06, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It feels funny to me reading stuff like this. On the one hand, you're right to demand ever more new stuff and complain when it looks clunky or blocky, but on the other I've been playing subsims since Silent Service and this was the first to have a crew at all, so it's still new and different.

How quickly we become jaded.

Point well made, Steve.

It just amuses me that we go into endless detail about cloud and wave texture and wanting to see real damage modeling to the ships we hit, but we don't mind the fact that there's nobody on them.

Corsair · 12-08-06, 07:11 AM

At the time SH3 came out, animated crews on all boats would have an impact on the framerate for the medium machines of the time ?

TDK1044 · 12-08-06, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Corsair

At the time SH3 came out, animated crews on all boats would have an impact on the framerate for the medium machines of the time ?

You are totally correct. I guess I'm just looking for a compromise that could be more audio based than visual and which helps you to believe that the ships in SH4 actually have crews on them.

12-07-06, 03:01 PM	#3
AJ! Commodore Join Date: May 2006 Location: That lil island above france Posts: 601 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Or of course you could go up to the ship using the free view camera The ship crews were so brave in SH3. whenever their ship went down they would just stand there motionless at their posts. __________________

12-07-06, 04:52 PM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	It feels funny to me reading stuff like this. On the one hand, you're right to demand ever more new stuff and complain when it looks clunky or blocky, but on the other I've been playing subsims since Silent Service and this was the first to have a crew at all, so it's still new and different. How quickly we become jaded. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-08-06, 07:11 AM	#6
Corsair Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toulouse France Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	At the time SH3 came out, animated crews on all boats would have an impact on the framerate for the medium machines of the time ? __________________ NYGM 3.4A / Living SH3 V5.1 + SH3 Commander

12-07-06, 02:48 PM	#2
TDK1044 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 2,674 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Numerous times I've attacked an armed tanker on the surface using my deck gun, and by using the binoculars you can clearly see the empty deck of the ship you're attacking. It feels very strange attacking a ghost ship.