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Abraham
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 Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:04 am Post subject: 100% realism: Manual charting? |
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I think one of the 'problems' with SH III was that 100% realism was confused with 100% difficulty.
A captain who is firing the Flak or deck gun is not very realistic, but fun and more difficult that firing on 'auto'.
A captain who is working without his team is also not realistic, but - sometimes fun and therefor more difficult.
So there should actually two scales, one of realism without an on/off toggle, and one of difficulty for the player, with an on/off toggle. |
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pilotxxl
Joined: 02 Apr 2006
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Location: Portugal
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:10 am Post subject: Re: 100% realism: Manual charting? |
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| Abraham wrote: | I think one of the 'problems' with SH III was that 100% realism was confused with 100% difficulty.
A captain who is firing the Flak or deck gun is not very realistic, but fun and more difficult that firing on 'auto'.
A captain who is working without his team is also not realistic, but - sometimes fun and therefor more difficult.
So there should actually two scales, one of realism without an on/off toggle, and one of difficulty for the player, with an on/off toggle. |
I agree with Abraham, but it would be interesting when a captain perform a task due to an sailor or petty officer his status benefit from the performance of the task executed. |
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Trout
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:01 am Post subject: Re: 100% realism: Manual charting? |
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agreed. But we still need a mechanism to motivate captains to do more than just issue orders all the time. I would like to simulate a captain who has worked his way up throught the boats and knows every job on board (kinda like a Jack Aubrey). Maybe only once per voyage he does an navigational fix, or trims the boat, or dials in a radio message, but he does them to make a point to his crew.
| Abraham wrote: | I think one of the 'problems' with SH III was that 100% realism was confused with 100% difficulty.
A captain who is firing the Flak or deck gun is not very realistic, but fun and more difficult that firing on 'auto'.
A captain who is working without his team is also not realistic, but - sometimes fun and therefor more difficult.
So there should actually two scales, one of realism without an on/off toggle, and one of difficulty for the player, with an on/off toggle. |
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