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[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by acid001

1.i read o lot of posts that say, "we cant fix it ,its hard coded,ie ai behavior we have to wait for the devs" ok fair enough but if people wrote this "hard code" whats to stop modders from rewriting the code? is it locked or somthing i am not aware of?

It's extremely illegal to do it without express permission from the publisher. People pay hundred-thousand-dollar fines, go to jail, that kind of thing. They can be a little picky sometimes.

2. what is this refrence to "bernard"? i see its some kind of inside joke,could somone please enlighten me?

Look at the SH3 board "Humorous Pictures" thread. The very first one has a joke about somebody screwing up. The name used was 'Bernard', and it stuck. All stupid things are now done by Bernard.

3 if people are waiting for a magic patch that will fix all the more serious "issues" in the game why cant modders put out a patch? they obviously are smart people. is there somthing stoppng said efforts?

Patches usually involve rewriting or updating the code. See answer to (1) above.

4. why does this game cause so many diffrent behaviors? example some people get stupid destroyers, while others get lethal ones,some ppl get periscope depth and crashdive no problem whiile others get a one way trip to the bottom of the sea?or diffrent behaviors on one machine from game to game? this confuses me greatly. i would think that a bug or issue would be experienced all the time on all machines (excluding diffrent platforms) . maybie diffrent processors?,example few years ago most games seemed to be written on intel chisets,i remember seeing patches from like amd i think it was the amd people hs to put out the patch,not the game s publisher is something simelar happeneing now?

Some of it is intentional - trying to reflect better/worse crews on the AI ships. Some of it is actual bugs - sometimes things slip by the developers; hence the patches. Some of may actually be processor-sensitive. I don't know enough about the ins and outs of computers to say more than that.

please exuse a dumb old man and dont flame just answer please

But it's fun to flame people. Unfortunately all your questions were good ones and I can't do that. Thanks for ruining my day.:rotfl: