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Hello CapnCrane,

It's great that there is now a new inland shipping expert to help tweaking Mare Australe dynamics, specially after so many years and discussions about this topic, started by someone who could assert knowing about such ships.
The issue of the specifications will be solved now. So, what data can you give me about such a ship. She was difficult to manage, because the design itself doesn't match her published measurements, as she is in fact a 88m Lpp inlandship, 11.45 m wide but only 1.90 m fully loaded, more a Grot Rijnschip than a Verlengd one.
From there the ambiguities about power and hence manoeuvring data, and a 15 mt thruster on a relatively light ship. She is not a 110 m M10 AVV class, but at most an undersized M8.
Anyway, as far as I know, the published dynamics is still the original one, concocted from the data that I collected long ago, so thaty the choice is yours : this is not the community development board.

Regards,
Luc

I tried the updated dynamics file that "perfected" the ship - absolutely not-realistic.  In the 1st pic with the full thrust applied to side the ship spins clockwise at like 265 degs per min!  Setting the thrust to 0 & applying the full ahead with hard to port to stop the spin - ship continues to spin clockwise, pic 2.
On pic 3 applying a full ahead with hard to port to a fully static ship makes it spin again at over 200 degs per min.  It's as if there's no water resistance on ship.
(Disregard the depths shown on map as 0, the ship was sailing normally from that place after I was done with testing the thruster)

Also, what's that 2100rpm for a thruster?  Is it its electromotor's rpm or the propeller's rpm?

I believe this inland feeder realistically would be equipped with a 4-channel thruster or a steering-grid thruster, like in pic 4.  So I find the initial dynamics file of Mare Australe to be more realistic.

Does Shipsim Extremes als contain cheats and easter eggs?

Not sure if this was mentioned before, here's an Easter egg in Winner's front hold.

Well, as I got used to SSE & since we sail there on Willis server just fine, I guess there's no need for SS08 multiplayer now.

Back in the days, shipsim sold the Ship Control Unit. It has been discontinued several years ago. There is no dedicated lever for the bow thruster, but you can configure the available buttons. You can still purchase it new on some websites, like here:
http://www.vrinsightshop.com/shop/step1.php?number=24


There was also the Shipdriver. In my opinion it seemed a better option because there were more buttons to configure. There are dedicated switches for bow and stern thrusters. I don't think you can still purchase new, but here is one listed on ebay right now:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/156549214514

Sadly I never had the budget for any of them, so I can't vouch for one or the other.

Hello and Good Day,      ► Can someone lead me to some hardware Ship Simulator Controls in a console. We would like to the Simulator for some Training. Is it possible to purchase some console controls for the Simulator?

Obviously there isn't much activity anymore, but if the timing is right you can still find a multiplayer partner

2 or 3 years ago I managed to keep a SSE server up and running 24/7. It lasted for a while, until I had to move to a smaller place. I don't have enough space for the server anymore. Hopefully this will change by the end of 2025. I plan on rebooting the server then. Maybe I could run a SS08 server too. It depends if my friend Stormforce will be able to show me how. He's the real technical genius after all!

Is someone able to make a multiplayer server? I’m unable to spawn in mine. Thanks

Willis

So as not to search in the future. Legacy games require the full DirectX package.
DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010):
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109