Time Compression

[Corsair]

Picking up an assignment to NY on a first TC 1 patrol is bad luck. I don't even go there at high TC...
Like to hunt in my home waters and ask usually transfer to Brest end 1940. Although the IX carries more torps and longer range, I am a VII lover

[VIICDriver]

Funny, I just started my first 1x patrol myself. Started a second career with the 2nd out of Wilhemshaven for this purpose. Its going along OK, enjoyed following the escort out in real time. Only took an hour or so before he turned off and so far am enjoying the patrol. Heading up to AM12.

I've got to figure out why my PC will not let me task-switch out of SH3 though. Every other piece of software I have I can task-switch to the desktop without issue, trying to do so with SH3 basically results in a screen freeze with a little blinking. Press ALT-TAB lets me get back to the sim without problems, if I could just get AWAY from it. LOL

Chuck

[Mooncatt]

yes but whta did you do during that time while you were sailing out of the harbour its not as if anything is going to happen is it??? i cant just sit there for an hour staring vacantly at a screen

[VIICDriver]

No actually I "guided" the boat out of the harbor correctly. Worked on staying exactly 500-1000m behind the escort and directly behind her. Took the time to enjoy all the harbor traffic. Watched a large cargo come in and a schnellboot apprently investigating me by making a large circle around me. Studied the Tirpitz for the first time as we went past her.

So I did enjoy it. Just because you do not like "staring vacantly at a screen" does not mean that is what the 1x'ers are doing. If it is not for you 1024 out and torpedo some ships but knocking the way some people enjoy the sim is not helpful to anyone.

Chuck

[Ducimus]

I use TC judiciously, but i have my limits depending on where i am. I really need to given all the long range patrols i tend to do.

If im in any area where i expect heavy patrols, either aircraft or tin cans, i tend to stick around 256 to 512 TC. Which is fast enough to make the game move a bit faster, but slow enough to where i wont have a plan spotted when its right atop of me dropping its bombs.

If the area isnt heavily patrolled, ill go as high as 1024. When in my acutal theater of operations, Most of the time during the day i travelled submerged and just let my sonarman do the hydophone checking, although il check it myself from time to time. If im patroling an area for shipping, ill do the same routine, but travel in a search pattern that goes in diagnals to expecting shipping routes - that way i'll have little chance of a ship sneaking up into my baffels.

If im in transit to my theater of operations, (IE crossing the atlantic) ill kick that TC up to 2048.

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by VIICDriver

No actually I "guided" the boat out of the harbor correctly. Worked on staying exactly 500-1000m behind the escort and directly behind her. Took the time to enjoy all the harbor traffic. Watched a large cargo come in and a schnellboot apprently investigating me by making a large circle around me. Studied the Tirpitz for the first time as we went past her.

So I did enjoy it. Just because you do not like "staring vacantly at a screen" does not mean that is what the 1x'ers are doing. If it is not for you 1024 out and torpedo some ships but knocking the way some people enjoy the sim is not helpful to anyone.

Chuck

Totally agree with above. I always get out and in harbour TCx1 enjoying the ride. When you love the sea athmosphere... same on a sailing boat on cruise, I can watch the sea (or the skies at night) for hours doing nothing else while the autopilot is handling the job...

[VIICDriver]

Well this one was pretty cool as I departed at 1745z and the sun was setting throughout the entire departure.

Also apologies to Mooncatt if I came off as a tad rough, just reread my post and it sounded alot worse than was intended. Just to each their own, if guys want to run at 2048 or 1x TC if it is how you enjoy the sim more power to ya.

From my end that 1x departure though was eye opening, I probably have left on a hundred patrols now and never enjoyed it as much as that one! Just see a bunch of stuff I was missing before.

Chuck

[Iron Budokan]

Heavens to Betsy. I've been playing 1x lately but even I wouldn't attempt a first 1x patrol to New York. That's bad luck getting that grid for your first 1x patrol. Eh, do what I did, start at the beginning of the war and work 1x in the backyard of the English.

But bottom line (to me anyway) it doesn't matter what TC you use as long as you're having fun. But with GWX going through the harbor on 1x is more enjoyable than the ghost town it used to be on stock SH3 so I do that now, too.