[Neal Stevens]

Since this is a new feature in subsims, I am curious as to how you think it will be most commonly used in Dangerous Waters?

Comments welcome, please.
Neal

[sonar732]

I think that this will depend greatly on the online fleets.

[timmyg00]

Agree with Sonar on this one, but additionally, how many players will be practical in-game, not just how many player that the developer says it will support. I've seen several SC uber-matches in which the game experienced hiccups, lag, and dropped players during 5 and 6-player matches, but the game is supposed to support 8 players for multiplay. Not that I'm really complaining, but putting a game thru its paces is the only way to tell what it will really do, no matter what it says on the box.

Having said that, i'm mostly optimistic about the multi-station feature and can't wait to try it.

TG

[TLAM Strike]

Multi Station is going to be very useful I think when training new players. You can control the whole boat while giving instructions on one particular subject. Also I think having two people maning sonar and classfying contacts can be helpful when there is a lot of people out there making noise. (Jim you classfy all the contacts to port I'll take starboard) Also having someone man FC durring battle can be helpful, LOTS of times I've wasted a few seconds going to FC, then the launchers for pop off a few CMs.

[XabbaRus]

Oh I can also see some fights brewing.

I actually think that 2 players per platform is maybe best.

If you have eight players in total that means 4 craft under human control.

Of course it does depend on what people agree on before hand.

[sonar732]

[timmyg00]

[sonar732]

The online web groups should be working right now on how they will implement the multiple stations into the game and defining the rules that brought this poll to mind. Because the stations list on submarines show...

Sonar - Broadband
Sonar - Narrowband
Sonar - Demon
Sonar - Active
Sonar - Active Intercept
Sonar - SSP


This is a good example of why the number of players should be defined as soon as possible.

[Furia]

It is very hard for virtual Fleets to define at this stage of game developement and avalaible infrmation the way they will implement multiplayer on their online activities. Surely multimanning stations would be a very important feature for multiplayer games.
Surface /air vs subsurface would become the King of the multiplayer activities.

We still need much more information about the game "way of doing" to define the way the game would be played by Fleets.
Probably this would not be set until the game can be tested and tried.

[Pigfish]

[sonar732]

[Zerogreat]

[TLAM Strike]

There are worse things than having to man the SSP on the Seawolf Pigfish... Like manning the SSP on the 688(i)! Just one button "Launch XBT" at least on the Seawolf you got a depth scale to fiddle with.

Gentlemen lets not forget just how important the SSP station is. With out it we would never know where a thermocline layer is.

That said, I’m not manning it.... :wink:

[sonar732]

[skriblz]

@ Sonalysts: How will control be managed? Will everyone viewing a station be able to click buttons on it? Will there be one person per platform who controls each other players permision to operate a station?

Having features that regulate permission of control would be important. Imagine you are manning a platform with some player you don't know. Let's say this player just wanted to annoy you for the hell of it (it's not hard to find annoying people on the internet) or maybe he got into an argument with you and the other players in the game and got mad. If he wanted to, he could just go to FC and launch a few snapshots to ruin your stealth. Or maybe he would go to the TMA station and screw around with your firing solutions or, worse, drop a few (or all ) contacts. Permission management would help prevent something like this. Please Sonalysts don't overlook this.