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English forum => Development corner => Topic started by: The Wolf on October 19, 2009, 18:41:52

Title: A Great Lakes Version
Post by: The Wolf on October 19, 2009, 18:41:52

 Will there be a Great lakes Version of Ship Sim in the future.

Title: Re: A Great Lakes Version
Post by: The Ferry Man on October 19, 2009, 18:43:38

Quote from: The Wolf on October 19, 2009, 18:41:52

Will there be a Great lakes Version of Ship Sim in the future.

You never know, though not on SSE, I think...

Sorry...

Maybe next time (Seems quite popular...)

Also, Welcome to Ship Sim Forum  ;D

Title: Re: A Great Lakes Version
Post by: The Wolf on October 19, 2009, 18:53:45

 I feel that the Great Lakes are a fantastic way for Ship Sim too see a whole New Area. You can sail from Southampton to the St Lawrence and into Lake Ontario too the western nd oo meet up with The Welland Canal and the 8 Lifts and into Lake Erie where you travel left for the Niagara River and right towards the Detroit River and the Lake St Clair (The Forgetten Great Lake) but up too Lake Huron north to the entrance for Georgian Bay on the right and the Straits of the Mackinaw for Lake Michigan.Travel northstill into the St Mary's for The Soo for another set of locks called The Soo Locks and north for Whitefish Bay and Lake Superior.
 As you head south from The Soo you traverse the Rock Cut and bring your ship into lake Huron once again.
Traditional Lakers are Pilot House Forward and 730' x 80'x 40' and a few Ocean style of the same dimensions.Then there are the Land Locked 1,000 footer Lakers that are all Ocean style except they are 1,000'x104'x40' or more.The Soo locks are the only locks that can accomodate the mighty 1,000 footers.The Welland does not.
 European ship can trverse the St Lawrence Seaway as long as they are of Seaways Sizes.

Title: Re: A Great Lakes Version
Post by: The Wolf on October 19, 2009, 19:00:43

And Thank You..I look forwards to the Future of Ship Sim.I really hope that a Great Lakes Versionis in the boks for a future.
Thank you.

Title: Re: A Great Lakes Version
Post by: The Wolf on October 19, 2009, 20:29:46

 I want to introduce you or anyone who can help to start the ball rolling o the Great Lakes;

1- A Song     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-oqHt_166Y

2- A trip down bound on board a laker. Time Lape about 10 minutes for the whole trip all 43  kilometers of The Welland Canal
                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRLwTPpSMc

3- Some Great Lakes Freighters:
                     
                           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kkL7T9TRIs

4- More Ships of the Great Lakes

                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuq18WSK5bE

 Finally here are the 1,000 footers:

                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTCZsEqYNbQ

Title: Re: A Great Lakes Version
Post by: The Wolf on October 19, 2009, 20:41:22

 Just a few More too show the life of Great Lakers...

1- a 1,000 footer coming into a habour:
       
                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g83oK_KdE8

2- The Most FAMOUS SHIPWRECK of them all on the Great Lakes...
   The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot
   
               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

 Thank you and I hope this will capture some imagination of....The Great lakes and the  Ships that ply Her.

Thank you
 Stephen

Title: Re: A Great Lakes Version
Post by: Kapn Jonah on October 19, 2009, 21:03:47

Hey Stephen,

Welcome to the forum!

Do you think you could just put all that information in your last 3 posts into one?

And i think its a great idea, but your not the first to come up with it! :P  :doh: I hope that VSTEP will consider the Great Lakes, in a future version, but i am very doubtful that it will be in Ship Sim Extremes.

Regards,
Jonah