Plus I think mad fred is right. Small kids are allways spoilt by playing these gun games online. I think it should be illieagel, I mean, games like Abuse, Caos Faction. Even Runescape.... They are just training kids to kill people when they are older, which is not a very good thing. And what is worse, is that some of these games have memberships were you pay and get more facilities. The thing I hate, is seeing people waste like £15 just to upgrade a killing game for 1 month.
As for Ship Simulator, ships are easy. If you dont want the sinking facility, dont download the patch, or simply dont ram your ship anywahere. Its quite easy really, but all the same, Same thing I said. If people sink sink sink and sink, they are gonna become wreckers or something and watch ships go down and watch their crew die.
Something good about the sinking facility however, is that people who are training for real life sailing can try not to bump into things and avoide sinking. If they did not have the sinking faciliy however, and the bumped into things, they would just say "oh well who the cares nothing is gonna happen", and then comes the time when they are captaining the biggest ship in the world and the hit rocks. They go "Oh well who cares" like they did in the game. And a few hours later they would find themselvs dead among another few thousand people, or if they are lucky, they would sit shocked in the lifeboat saying "Wow! I never knew that ships could dive! How did it do that?" And why do they say that? well, because Ship Simulator never did it, so why should the real thing? Simulations are for realism and prepareing for real life. So people, you need the sinking facility.
I can explain this with the Titanic. They thought the ship was unsinkable. (not the sensible people anyway) so when she hit the Iceberg, No-one cared exept the crew. It has also been proved by some survivors that some steerage (Third class) started playing football with the ice that had broken of the iceberg and landed on the deck! Then in the next 10 minuits they find themselvs rushing about the boat deck in search for safety, but they go down with the ship. And as they do so, they hear people from the lifeboats saying: "Wow! I never new the Titanic could do that! That ship was supposed to be unsinkable!"
After the Titanic's tragedy, the Britannic was thought to be even more unsinkable because she had two coats of steel. And what happend? Halfway through the voyage they hear a large explosion and apparently, the unsinkable ship sinks in just 55 minuits! and people go: "Wow! I never knew the Britannic could do that!" While some people get ripped up by the rotateing propellers.
So you can see why we need the Sinking feature. It helps us master our captaining. Your question however, was why do people want to sink ships. Well, half the time, its for a tribute. I have seen lots of titanic sinking videos on Youtube. And most of them are a tribute to the liner and its vicitms. Some people sink ships because they want to make a story. But why would people sink ships for entertainment? Wel, it just means they are gonna becaome wreckers in later life and simply wreck some ships.
Some think its onteresting. I do, I think that its amazeing how a big liner sinks. Im not saying its fun to watch, Im not saying its cool, but Its just My opinion. However, this does not mean I do it on the sim. What our ships for? Sinking? no. They are not. They are to carry people from one place to the other, or carry cargo from one place to the other. And thats what Sip simulator is for as well. Sinking ships are dangorus and bad things. I mean even a small tugbot capsized the other day, and only 1 out of four people survived A little tugboat!
Haveing the V1.1 patch, you can try to avoide crashing into obstacles and complete a great voyage. As a matter of fact, I have two sinking videos on Youtube. One is acctually a part 1 of a story. The other is when I accidently hit an iceberg with the Latitude, So I though I should film it. But the bad thing was, I had to start the mission all over again.
I hope I answerd your question
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