Drive home or Teleport? - Page 5

Stealth Hunter · 11-15-07, 11:25 PM

Navigate.

I have no idea in hell of a teleporter mod.

Spin Doctor · 11-19-07, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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Originally Posted by U-Cass

First few times I did that always ending up crashing the boat in dock. Now I always navigate back then hit dock at x

That's more than fair. If you're close enough to "dock at x" then you're close enough for it to be real.

As for the actual docking, I try to obey (my own) harbor traffic rules: never more than 5 knots when inside the breakwater and never more than 1 knot when approaching or leaving the pier itself.

Meah, pulling up to the dock is for wussies. When you can put a IXD in the subpens in Lorient, come talk to me. No driving back & forth either. Spot your pen, make the turn. park it.

Jimbuna · 11-19-07, 03:35 PM

Until, on your to port after a highly successful patrol, you suddenly find yourself in the midst of an air raid......like a turkey in a barrel

Then you kinda get to thinking.... :hmm:

Torplexed · 11-19-07, 08:37 PM

Teleports are for James T. Kirk. Real captains navigate! :p

STEED · 11-20-07, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed

Teleports are for James T. Kirk. Real captains navigate! :p

The draw back is less snogging time with the women, beam me up.

CENSORED :p

Oberon · 11-30-07, 01:05 PM

After hitting an uncharted seamount and smashing up my bow (losing all fore tubes in the process) and then encountering what seemed like the entire Royal Navy (and Coastal Command) on the way out, I eventually gave in and teleported. That will be the last time however...

Bdu in revenge gave me a patrol grid off Spain, I told them that AN would be a better and more realistic option and threatened to torpedo the Bismarck if they didn't change their minds.
Doenitz was sympathetic to my cause and the grid was changed, although there were more than the usual number of men in black leather trenchcoats at the dock to see me off on my fourth patrol.... :hmm:

Jonathan · 11-30-07, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Redbear

I always navigate all the way back, right up to docking at the pier with the band, nurses, etc. I do use TC until I am close to port, but then I finish at 1X to see the ships the Harbor Traffic mod added.

This is eerily similar to what I do...

Sailor Steve · 12-04-07, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Spin Doctor

Meah, pulling up to the dock is for wussies. When you can put a IXD in the subpens in Lorient, come talk to me. No driving back & forth either. Spot your pen, make the turn. park it.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to start a bragging contest; just saying what feels real to me.

Go p**s on someone else's leg.:p :rotfl:

Jonathan · 12-05-07, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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Originally Posted by Spin Doctor

Meah, pulling up to the dock is for wussies. When you can put a IXD in the subpens in Lorient, come talk to me. No driving back & forth either. Spot your pen, make the turn. park it.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to start a bragging contest; just saying what feels real to me.

Go p**s on someone else's leg.:p :rotfl:

This kind of talk makes me want to get my own 'boot and go out on the harbor...err, as it stands in Oklahoma, a man-made lake!

Jimbuna · 12-05-07, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Spin Doctor

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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Originally Posted by U-Cass

First few times I did that always ending up crashing the boat in dock. Now I always navigate back then hit dock at x

That's more than fair. If you're close enough to "dock at x" then you're close enough for it to be real.

As for the actual docking, I try to obey (my own) harbor traffic rules: never more than 5 knots when inside the breakwater and never more than 1 knot when approaching or leaving the pier itself.

Meah, pulling up to the dock is for wussies. When you can put a IXD in the subpens in Lorient, come talk to me. No driving back & forth either. Spot your pen, make the turn. park it.

Quite a 'spin' you put on it :hmm: ......Now choose carefully, I've put a mine in one of them pens

View Poll Results: Do you navigate home, or "teleport" back instantly?
Always navigate back to base.	124	63.59%
Always teleport.	18	9.23%
Depends on my mood.	47	24.10%
I've never been back/ I'm lost/ I'm on a beach in Fiji	6	3.08%
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11-19-07, 03:35 PM	#63
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,500 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Until, on your to port after a highly successful patrol, you suddenly find yourself in the midst of an air raid......like a turkey in a barrel Then you kinda get to thinking.... :hmm: __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-19-07, 08:37 PM	#64
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Teleports are for James T. Kirk. Real captains navigate! :p __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili--

11-15-07, 11:25 PM	#61
Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	Navigate. I have no idea in hell of a teleporter mod.

11-30-07, 01:05 PM	#66
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	After hitting an uncharted seamount and smashing up my bow (losing all fore tubes in the process) and then encountering what seemed like the entire Royal Navy (and Coastal Command) on the way out, I eventually gave in and teleported. That will be the last time however... Bdu in revenge gave me a patrol grid off Spain, I told them that AN would be a better and more realistic option and threatened to torpedo the Bismarck if they didn't change their minds. Doenitz was sympathetic to my cause and the grid was changed, although there were more than the usual number of men in black leather trenchcoats at the dock to see me off on my fourth patrol.... :hmm: