Has the "magic" gone?

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by FERdeBOER

I'm in a tin, with 50 rude men

They're so polite and civil on my boat!

You must be doing something wrong. :P

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

They're so polite and civil on my boat!

You must be doing something wrong. :P

I only have problems with my deck gunner, Jurgen Söllig.

I`m pretty sure he´s an OSS agent. He misses always when we are engaging allied ships, but hits always if there is a German ship around.

Jurgen Bilstein, kaleun of the U-589 will continue the investigations.

[FERdeBOER]

My fisrt officer allways says to me that my "rum from everybody" policy is not good for the discipline, but I allways answer that I will not ask them anything that I would't do

[1916]

I haven't gotten bored yet (!) . It's still fun to watch the explosions and I've yet to live through an entire campaign, so I haven't received any medals yet (nor "unlocked" too many things for that matter). Striving to earn new things and knowing that there are all these mods keeps it fresh. I only play sims right now, and other than SHIII, IL2, and FS2004, I haven't touched anything else lately. Although I do have Rome : Total War and Empire Earth II sitting next to my sims

[CWorth]

I voted for option 5.

I still like the game but am starting to get bored with it.I am taking a break from it to start playing my IL2FB+AEP+PF game again.Will return to it after a short break and all will be great again.

[deckard]

atm im having more fun making mods for the game than actually playing it,
UBI made SH3 really fun to mod compared to other games i have modded,
here most things seems possible, but requires alot of brainwork to actually complete. :hmm:

[Rubini]

atm im having more fun making mods for the game than actually playing it,
UBI made SH3 really fun to mod compared to other games i have modded,
here most things seems possible, but requires alot of brainwork to actually complete

The same here!

Rubini.

[Archangel]

Still very much looking forward to play it when I fire it up on my PC.

Though I have probably taken a slightly different approach then many other players here.

I am still only on my 10th patrol and in my VBII.

Got transfered from Wilhelmshaven to Brest now though.

Last I saved I was hunted by a flower Corvette, took my boat down to 100m...can`t wait to continue.

My carrer has been very nice so far, best patrol with around 58.000
and running on 67% realism.

Lost two of my initial crew though, both were flak gunners.

[toryu]

I'm not bored yet by a long shot. But I don't try to play SH3 every day. If you overdose yourself on anything, you'll get sick of it. I don't have much choice, it has to be said. Job, wife, child, assorted other things. I usually fire up SH3 when everybody's in bed. Creep into the living room with the lights out, slap on the digital headphones, and have at it. It's still hugely entertaining for me. I'm still playing my first ever and only career, Joachim Steiner, 1st Flotilla, U-49 (Type VIIC), September 1940. I'm on my tenth patrol, my first sailing out of Brest. My crew are getting a lot of experience, a lot of specialization in their tasks and we're turning into a very professional boat. Which is just as well, because the RN are beginning to get more deadly. My 9th patrol, which was my last in the North Sea, was basically spent dodging a bunch of very nosy destroyers. When we got the message to transfer to Brest, I went around the Orkneys, and lurked off Donegal. I hit a convoy, and sunk two ships after potting the lead destroyer, but I got a tough time from the Flower Corvette who was bringing up the rear. He called for air support, and F12 showed me a pair of RAF aircraft flying over low, and bombing the ocean where I was. The Flower Corvette dropped a line of depth charges on me, and my damage repair team had their first real test of multiple damages. But we made it. I dove to 100m, and gradually crept away to sink a ship I'd damaged earlier. The swine spotted me though, and no sooner had I sunk him than I noticed a destroyer making a 30kt beeline for me. He turned around once the merchant sunk though.

So it's beginning to get tough. The ships are calling for help, so I have to be more careful.

Before sailing on this patrol I installed the Harbour Mod 1.45(?) and the Airpower Mod that came with it. I like having a populated harbour, other Uboats, and an escort out to the open sea.

So no, I'm not bored. If you do anything too much you'll get bored, and I haven't done that.

Creating custom missions is my favorite part, the campaign is bouring with patrol after partol after...

I'd like some sort of specific target/mission tossed in every few orders. And being able to prolong the war and/or change some outcomes (like sinking a boat Churchill was on) would be a super-nice feature!

Not bored at all; but then I like sailing in and out of harbors in real time, watching the ships come and go. I like watching the sky and sea change as I cover the miles to and from my patrol zone. I like chasing a convoy for hours, wondering if the torpedoes will work properly and if those escorts will find me before I can do any damage.

I love each new mod that lets me feel as if I'm really there.

Nope, not bored at all.

[Detritus]

I voted for the fifth option. I'm getting a bit bored to tell the truth but still not even close to give up. Currently playing in varying realism settings (changes almost mission by mission, decided by gut feeling), usually between 73-87%. It's autumn 1943 and I've decided now to see the war through, so dying doesn't make any difference (haven't yet ) and looking foward to start a new career with many mods I've been saving for it. But, nevertheless, my attention span/patrience has dropped quite a lot as well as time I play on each session. I've also found myself glancing all the other games on the shelf more often, especially WW2 flight sims(my fav) . I think after the second campaign I'm gonna give SH3 a longish shore leave and do something competely different, though it will remain in my 'Evergreen' category= games that I keep and return to as long as I play.

[baxter]

I guess I would be bored if it weren't for RUb and all the other mods. New things keep being developed and the game has enough depth to keep me interested.

[Von Scheerbach]

Not bored at all, but I've managed some upgrades after each career.

Career 1 (KapitanLeutnant Von Scheerbach) I played with the stock game, getting to Oct 1942 before being sunk by allied destroyers off NY.

Career 2 (KapitanLeutnant Leonhard Jackel) I played using SH3 Commander (v1). I was sunk in Sept 1942 this time by alled aircraft, again off NY.

Now I'm on career 3 (Leutnant zur See Gunter Brummer), using Sh3 Commander 2 and oRGy's IuB, currently in Sept 1939 on Patrol 1. I may refuse any patrols to grid CA this time around....

[Kalach]

I had enough of it and stopped playing for a month. I came back, installed RUB, Commander, and some graphical mods and have enjoyed SH3 again since then

Now i'm playing a bit less, and alternating with some other games to make sure it doesn't get 'overplayed' again. SH3 has certainly made it in to the 'classics' of my games collection