I think it was this topic indeed, Chantal.
And you are indeed right, even though it's nice to walk around on a ship (at first) to see to what extend it is modelled, the walkthrough mode is mostly there for us to get an extra pair of eyes on things that we need an eye on, when we manoeuvre the ships.
I know that some people here are totally obsessed with the Titanic, and that is fine, we all have hobbies, and we all have things we adore. But keep in mind, all the little details that people in this age worhsip from a nostalgic viewpoint, were actually not that special when the ship was still around.
In other words, people back then were impressed with this ship, for sure. But with lots and lots of other ships too, before and since. And yet, the 'buffs' nowadays, are way more impressed then those people back then ever were. They cherish things that were never cherished or thought of as special, by the people who actually knew the vessel.
Purely mondain and everyday ship details suddenly become 'nuggets of invaluable information'. And this is rather silly, I think. The people that were actually there saw her as a beautiful ship, the 'greatest' at the time even perhaps, specially since they deamed her unsinkable, the latest greatest thing..., but remember, there is always a 'next best one' after that, and one after that, and one after that. And in this case she wasn't actually that great after all. Poorly designed and even outdated from day one. Because they advertised it as the greatest, unsinkable, etc, vessel to draw customers, didn't really make it so.
But people tend to hold on to the special cases, in this case it's a disaster that spawned a 'famous ship'.
But if she never had sunk and was taken out of the running after having served her purpose for some years, then would these people have become obsessed too? NOPE! So when we apply logic to it, that means, that
purely as a ship, she's not that special after all, doesn't it. The disaster created that. So if the ship is not that special without the disaster, her details aren't either.
So from the view of 'non titanic obsessed developers', upgrading her and thus sacrificing pc power that could be used on dynamics, weather, waves system, etc, would not be a priority at all.'
Again, I don't say that it's bad to be really into something, have at it! But I just want to put it in perspective a bit. Since the Titanic draws many people to the sim, she will probably be upgraded at some point, but I would bet that this will ONLY happen, if they have something to spare, AFTER they upgrade the things that are actually important in the sim. They will focus on actually sailing the vessels, not on walking around going 'ooh' and 'aah'.
PC power permitting, we might see changes, but not as much as the buffs would like to see, I suspect.
Fred
