Topic: What ship and environment did you first use when you bought the game? (Read 6660 times)

firestar12 · « **on:** February 07, 2009, 16:15:12 »

Well, I know its not really a game but what ship did you first use when you bought the game? For me it was the RPA12. In Marsellie.

Edit: Everyone is also saying their environment, so I changed the name.

Person264 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2009, 16:17:37 »

I'm not sure but in the first mission I did I used the speedboat, (back then my computer couldn't handle the large ships

IRI5HJ4CK · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2009, 16:19:28 »

I always remember what was my first, it was the Sherpa, in Marseille

Jack.

Sam · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2009, 17:22:50 »

The Red Eagle in the Solent.

Biceaus I was verry curious for the Voith Schneider propulsion.

Mad_Fred · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2009, 17:27:25 »

SS06 -> Port Authority Vessel in Rotterdam (I think)

SS08 -> Arie Visser in Rotterdam (pretty sure)

Aad The Pirate · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2009, 18:58:41 »

The RMS Titanic, still one of my fav's
BTW, Fred, does this not belong in Small Talk?

Mad_Fred · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2009, 19:03:23 »

I guess it could, yeah, even though it's also a general SS08 related topic, I figure.

But yeah, let's move it to small talk, where most of the other forum games are too.

Done. Cheers!

Regards,
Fred

Gloat · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2009, 19:18:20 »

Quote from: Firestar on February 07, 2009, 16:15:12

Well, I know its not really a game but what ship did you first use when you bought the game? For me it was the RPA12.

Mine was..

Oh wait.. I forgot Ill try to remember shall I?

[EDIT]: I remember that Mine was the Titanic

TerryRussell · « **Reply #8 on:** February 07, 2009, 20:53:33 »

SS2006 => Port Authority Vessel
SS2008 => Latitude
SSPRO => Frigate
SS2010 => Not telling you! But it's excellent!

Gloat · « **Reply #9 on:** February 07, 2009, 20:55:18 »

Quote from: TerryRussell on February 07, 2009, 20:53:33

SS2010 => Not telling you! But it's excellent!

Do you accept bribery?

firestar12 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 07, 2009, 21:21:42 »

Quote from: Gloat on February 07, 2009, 20:55:18

Do you accept bribery?

Possibly if it is Marmite.

Draco2 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 24, 2009, 22:03:34 »

Hope this isn't considered a bannable offense by bumping a topic after all this time...But I'd rather post than just sit here lurking.

Anyways, my first ship in SS08 was the HoverTravel Freedom 90...I took it for a spin around the Isle Of Wight, and then promptly got it stuck on what I believe to be the royal yacht squadron's jetty (that's what the actual lettering saying 'royal yacht squadron' was closest to, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)...I should have really taken a picture, but...D'oh...Silly me, I forgot... It's probably easy to recreate though, just get the hovercraft and ram into the jetty at moderate speed. If you can't reverse or drive off of it, job done.

J3nsen · « **Reply #12 on:** February 24, 2009, 22:06:06 »

Quote from: TerryRussell on February 07, 2009, 20:53:33

SS2010 => Not telling you! But it's excellent!

Now are you a bad bad person!

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SS06 - Titanic
SS06 Add on - Igor K.
SS08 - Red Jet
SS08 New Horizons - Herkules Atlas

firestar12 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 24, 2009, 22:08:33 »

Quote from: Draco2 on February 24, 2009, 22:03:34

Hope this isn't considered a bannable offense by bumping a topic after all this time...But I'd rather post than just sit here lurking.

Anyways, my first ship in SS08 was the HoverTravel Freedom 90...I took it for a spin around the Isle Of Wight, and then promptly got it stuck on what I believe to be the royal yacht squadron's jetty (that's what the actual lettering saying 'royal yacht squadron' was closest to, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)...I should have really taken a picture, but...D'oh...Silly me, I forgot... It's probably easy to recreate though, just get the hovercraft and ram into the jetty at moderate speed. If you can't reverse or drive off of it, job done.

You can revers it-use the thrusters

Draco2 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 24, 2009, 22:24:12 »

I'm pretty sure I tried using the thrusters and it didn't work...Or at least, it worked to a certain degree and then the F90 wouldn't reverse anymore, it'd just 'stay' there, like the power wasn't enough to get it dislodged...But never mind, all I know is I'll be staying the heck away from that jetty in the future.

firestar12 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 24, 2009, 22:25:33 »

Quote from: Draco2 on February 24, 2009, 22:24:12

I'm pretty sure I tried using the thrusters and it didn't work...Or at least, it worked to a certain degree and then the F90 wouldn't reverse anymore, it'd just 'stay' there, like the power wasn't enough to get it dislodged...But never mind, all I know is I'll be staying the heck away from that jetty in the future.

You need to be hoevering for them to work-and be patient for them, they take a while.

Draco2 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 24, 2009, 22:41:16 »

Quote from: Firestar on February 24, 2009, 22:25:33

You need to be hoevering for them to work-and be patient for them, they take a while.

Well, if you mean by hovering having the 'lift' engine set to high idle (100%), then I did that, however, the note about the thrusters...I'm pretty sure I was stuck there for around 30 seconds waiting before I called it a day...Surely that would have been enough time for the thrusters to take effect? What I mean by that is, I've noticed it does take around 3 seconds for the thrusters to take effect in the latest version...And back when I first used the Freedom 90 I still had 1.1...don't know if there's any difference there...

Perhaps I'm looking a little too deep into this... $:-\$

TerryRussell · « **Reply #17 on:** February 25, 2009, 00:11:07 »

It is possible to jam the hovercraft so tightly into a space that it will ever get out. Or you can get it hooked onto something.

Remember that the engines don't reverse. In fact, by applying reverse thrust, you may actually be wedging Freedom 90 in, even harder. Best to cut them to zero.

Draco2 · « **Reply #18 on:** February 25, 2009, 20:09:31 »

Yeah, I think I did the latter, got it hooked onto one of the posts of the jetty...I'll have to go hunting for more stuff to get the Freedom 90 stuck on.

The reverse thrust thing is rather strange, it may be possible we're talking about different things here...I mean, in a recent free roam session with the Freedom 90, I shut off both of the rear propellers, leaving only the lift engine going and switched the 'thruster' funnels on the front so they were pointing towards the front...whaddya know, it reversed all the way back into Cowes before I got bored and did something else.

Perhaps you meant thrusters as in the rear propellers? I've heard it used to describe the rear propellers of a hovercraft before, but not often..

TerryRussell · « **Reply #19 on:** February 25, 2009, 20:22:16 »

Sort of.

For the thrusters, the engines stay in "forward", but you swing the direction of the nozzles round to move it backwards.

For the main fan propellors, they don't reverse. The controls look like they do, but the fans don't work in reverse (deliberately).

Nathan|C · « **Reply #20 on:** February 25, 2009, 23:09:51 »

For me...I think it was the Red Jet 4 in Portsmouth or the Pride of Rotterdam in Europoort - now which one is more likely

RMSGreatBritain · « **Reply #21 on:** February 26, 2009, 19:06:31 »

I think it was Ocean star in Rotterdam.

jim.smith · « **Reply #22 on:** February 26, 2009, 19:14:25 »

HI guys Im not a new member,I just had to re-register through my own stupidity.My first vessel was Titanic.
Regards Jim.

Kevinmcg_ships · « **Reply #23 on:** February 26, 2009, 20:13:44 »

Quote from: TerryRussell on February 07, 2009, 20:53:33

SS2010 => Not telling you! But it's excellent!

Ooh, you are cruel, sir!

The Water Taxi was the first vessel I ever played in the Ship Simulator series when I downloaded the demo. I loved it so much that I bought the SS2006 game

In SS2006 my first vessel was the Harbour Patrol.

And in SS2008 it was the Arie Visser (rescue boat).

firestar12 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 26, 2009, 20:56:33 »

Also I guess you could say for SS06 (Demo) It was the harbour patrol boat.

Author Topic: What ship and environment did you first use when you bought the game? (Read 6660 times)

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