the other point is that all seems here to be very censored and every effort from the community to improve that game is treated very very sceptic. (close a "gap" with 1.1, rush comemnts on loosing warranty, files encrypted with no chance to deal with ships features like max speed, dymanics etc)
Why would you want people to change the dynamics? 99% of people that tinker with sims have either no idea what they are doing or make it LESS realistic. Do you play VS too for example? And if so, did you download many addons, and did you notice the dynamics on most of the ships? In most cases, that's not realism, that just a pretty model that drives like a car. And these huge waves.. come on.. they are rubbish. Just look at the picture there.
well, i really truly understand that shipsim is a commercial product with the basic deal to earn as much money as possible with as little (development) effort as possible and it may be politics to block any freeware improvenmts because you cannot sel this features anymore , but history has shown that all games which developed to a real legend were "opened" for free improvements by the community (look at trainsimulator, flightimulator, IL2 etc) .
Not true actually. They are working very hard to make this game better and better, but this is only the second version of a relatively new sim, with hardly any competitors out there that go as far into the genre as VSTEP. Things will get better and more advanced over time, as with any sim that is as complex as this one. And the community DOES make improvements, but VSTEP works together with those people and keeps things in control that way, rather than making it a mess with loads of sub standard addons. And this will also make sure there wont be many incompatibility issues on MP and such, by people that have differerent addons installed. Incidentally, this is what Maddox does too.. So IL2 is the same that way.
here i personally have the problem that shipsim gets more and more boring for me. i bought it at the first days of release and enjoyed it much.
but now the missions are played, the areas are sailed, the short 4m wave in the winter atlantic felt and there is nothing more. e.g at trainsim you can look everyday for new locomotives, new tracks etc. and so this 2001!!! developed game is still famous and new users will buy it.
I don't know if you allready played around with it, but the Mission Editor can give you lots and lots more to do. Or you can download the custom missions that are coming out both on the forum and ingame via the ingame downloading feature. It's quite easy to use the Editor and the possibilities are numerous.
i am a big fan of shipsimulations, but i would recommend to think about opening the game more for the community and improve the ship dynamics created by enviroment, otherwise this game can become a boring one very quick, and this would surely be not the wanted goal for the company regarding the financial befefits from people who think about buying shipsim in the future.
To date, there are no user made changes in dynamics to improve anything. As far as new ships go, there have and will be user made ships. Because the best modelers do get a chance to get their ships in the game. This is done in cooperation with VSTEP, so that quality and balance is guaranteed. Dynamics wise, things are constantly being developed and the future will bring much more and better stuff. And we don't need a thousand addon ships of which only 1 or 2 % is anywhere near very good, as some other game has, for example. They might look good, but that's not really what a sim is after. Some other game might have huge waves.. But if a ULCC in there, acts like a bass boat.. then I'm not impressed.
So certain restrictions are only there to prevent things getting (being made) worse.. not prevent them being made better.
VSTEP is very keen on working with the people that are able to make a decent contribution that is up to standards. They have always made this clear. But so far, the few "tweaks" that were done, were only making it worse or were used to cheat with missions and to annoy people online,.. like the top speed "hack". If that is what you would like to see, then I'm sorry, but that's not what this sim is about. So where is this knowledgable user base with all the great skills? They haven't exacly stepped up to the plate and made themselves known, to be honest.
Good things come to those who wait. This is only the beginning. A new addon is just about to be released, so that should give you som more ships and missions to play around with and that also gives lots of new possibilities to make new missions with. In there lies the challenge, doing jobs with the ships. And so far, it has not gotten boring for me, to be honest. It's not the ammount of content, it's what you do with it, for me. And the dynamics may not be perfect or totally complete, but hardly any "normal player" (the ones that make the most addons for other sims) have any idea how to realistically make them better. They think they do, but they dont. Period. That's why only about 5% of MSFS addons fly like the real thing. The rest is totally off. It's a choice you have to make, and VSTEP said no.
Regards,
Fred
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