Thanks for that Marty,
I'm not confused about the difference between the propulsion systems, I did say in my post that
(this has nothing to do with different propulsion systems!)
I have worked on vessels with both types of these propulsion systems and schottol and voith tractor units and I have a very good understanding of how to handle them and how they operate in the real world, my problem is with the way in which the developers have decided to interpret the control inputs within the game, what I was saying is that it would be more logical and realistic to be able to use the maximum steering angles the same as you have on the red eagle for the B2, as the current set up does not imitate how a pod works on that kind of vessel when using joysticks.
With an azipod tug such as the B2, within the game you should be able to use any key, joystick and or controller to give you the desired helm input (similar to how the Red Eagle's maximum steering input does) this is the problem, it works ok if you use precision steering on the keyboard but when you try to use a controller or 2 joysticks for a little more realism it does not work correctly.
Even if you attatched two azipod controls to your computer it would not let you operate them as you could on the real thing because of the way the controls been implimented in the game.
I would have serious concerns if a real tug allowed you to have full throttle on one pod when you put the port steering control to 90 degrees port or stbd and no thrust at all on the stbd steering control without putting any throttle input on as it is when it is in arcade mode.
or
when you have no arcade mode or precision steering selected as you would for a controller that already is precision steering enabled (as mine is) you can only turn your pods 10 degrees port or stbd when going ahead and then it does something completely different when you go astern, from this I would assume that I had a lobster pot wrapped around my units if it done this in real life.
I believe there is a controller issue here, what do you use to control the B2 Marty, do you use 2 joysticks, do you use the keyboard or some other device?
I'd be interested to hear what people are using and if they are encountering any problems especially people who have used these propulsion systems in the real world.