New SHIII

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Also, how do you guys feel about time compression? Is it a cheap way out?

Well, if you have the time for it... sailing around the planet at 1x time compression/realtime is cool... but it is not compatible with having a job and paying the bills, or keeping the wife/girlfriend happy.

In that respect it is not a cheat. Some realtime actual war patrols lasted up to three months. SH3 is just a game. It doesn't pay the bills.

All that being said... sailing at 1x compression gives you time to read, clean house, and other stuff. I enjoy 1x compression sailing because I find it relaxing... though it rarely mixes with my real life obligations. (Just speaking for myself, I've only gotten to PLAY SH3 rarely... been too busy working on it. When a test objective is completed... I move on to the next problem and the cycle repeats... at least until lately.)

I don't feel that using time compression should ever be viewed as a cheat though.

Once upon a time here, there were people that tried to convince the SH3 developers to NOT INCLUDE a "save game" option for the sake of "realism."

(No savegames... What a load of hogwash.) For those that play "hardcore" when you are dead you are dead. We won't reload a save-game to pull our bacon out of the fire. However, we will most certainly will save a game and come back to it to enjoy a long patrol over a few days in real time.

To each his own. You'll eventually choose a style that works best for you. When it starts to get boring... raise the difficulty/realism levels and start to learn how they did things in real life. Turning off that free camera... changes everything... and makes life a whole lot scarier!