My dream has come true: Ship Simulator 2006

If its made by microsoft the ships wont be able to sink, there wont be any battles and it will be completley boring and very expensive. FS2004 anyone?
 
freebooter said:
Sounds like SHIII or any naval sim without the interesting bits.
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Perhaps Silent Hunter secretly links in with the game. They'll never know until it's too late...
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
I suppose it can't be as bad as train simulator, I could never see the appeal of that game
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I tried Train Sim myself and agree, couldn't get into it at all, however I heard it actually sold very well indeed, even at £50 in most shops.

I'm very fond of Flight Simulation, and a Sim doesn't have to have guns to make it challenging for me. MS FS series has taught me a lot about real world civilian aviation navigation and it helped a lot when I did some real flights.

Is Ship Sim a MS product? If it is it might benefit from third party add-ons like Flight Sim and (I think) Train Sim did. If they release a demo I might try it, but I know from experience it *may* well be the type of game I install, play for an hour and never look at again.

Wouldn't mind an accurate *what if* scenario on the Titanic in the minutes leading up to the disaster to see if the massive loss of life could have been avoided. I saw a James Cameron talk about some benefit of hindsight actions that could have been taken that night, and also some other alternatives like hitting the Iceberg head on so the bow of Titanic would crumple and not rip a hole in the side of the hull underneath the waterline as it tried to steer around the berg.
 
Mr Bulbous said:
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Wouldn't mind an accurate *what if* scenario on the Titanic in the minutes leading up to the disaster to see if the massive loss of life could have been avoided.
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Yes, it could easily have been avoided. Naval officers today are tought that if collision is inevitable, aim directly at the object. It would have crushed an unused area of the ship, very little flooding and only minor injuries.

Hence a lot of collison photos nowadays involve a 'squashed nose' and very few have damage along the side.
 
It's not a Microsoft title. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.

As for the Titanic hitting the iceberg head on. If Murdoch has just thrown the engines into reverse but stayed on course for the iceberg, they would have hit the berg at approx 10 knots. There would have been unthinkable damage to the ship. The whole front would crumple in. HOWEVER, only one or two of the watertight bulkheads would have been ruptured. Remember, the Titanic could survive would FOUR even FIVE of it's bulkheads ruptured. The Titanic would stay afloat indefinitly - enough time for the passengers to be offloaded to another ship and the Titanic towed to New York for repairs.

What actually happened, as we all know, the ship hit the iceberg on the right side, puncturing six? bulkheads. Titanic sank.

About 2 years after the Titanic disaster another ship encountered an iceberg in fog. The Captain remembered Titanic and threw the engines into reverse. The ship hit the berg head on - but survived. They named the manuvere of ramming an iceberg 'The Murdoch Maneuvere' - even though he didn't actually do that on the night.
 
Still waiting for that confermation of any weather effects... big waves? not much of a ship simulation without realistic sea....


Thats kind of like a racing sim with only straight tracks on it lol. :)
 
Quantic said:
It's not a Microsoft title. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.

As for the Titanic hitting the iceberg head on. If Murdoch has just thrown the engines into reverse but stayed on course for the iceberg, they would have hit the berg at approx 10 knots. There would have been unthinkable damage to the ship. The whole front would crumple in. HOWEVER, only one or two of the watertight bulkheads would have been ruptured. Remember, the Titanic could survive would FOUR even FIVE of it's bulkheads ruptured. The Titanic would stay afloat indefinitly - enough time for the passengers to be offloaded to another ship and the Titanic towed to New York for repairs.

What actually happened, as we all know, the ship hit the iceberg on the right side, puncturing six? bulkheads. Titanic sank.

About 2 years after the Titanic disaster another ship encountered an iceberg in fog. The Captain remembered Titanic and threw the engines into reverse. The ship hit the berg head on - but survived. They named the manuvere of ramming an iceberg 'The Murdoch Maneuvere' - even though he didn't actually do that on the night.
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The iceburg punctured 5 bulkheads, titanic could only stay afloat with its first 4 flooded. If titanic hadn't have reversed engines it would have avoided the iceburg. The titanic had a poor design for its day.
 
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Nieldo said:
Still waiting for that confermation of any weather effects... big waves? not much of a ship simulation without realistic sea....


Thats kind of like a racing sim with only straight tracks on it lol. :)
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*waves*

:D
 
The graphics looks nice but im not into that kind of stuff. Put it this way: Aircraft fast as hell and very maneuverable :cool: , Ships - slow and less maneuverable :( .
 
Quantic said:
It's not a Microsoft title. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.

As for the Titanic hitting the iceberg head on. If Murdoch has just thrown the engines into reverse but stayed on course for the iceberg, they would have hit the berg at approx 10 knots. There would have been unthinkable damage to the ship. The whole front would crumple in. HOWEVER, only one or two of the watertight bulkheads would have been ruptured. Remember, the Titanic could survive would FOUR even FIVE of it's bulkheads ruptured. The Titanic would stay afloat indefinitly - enough time for the passengers to be offloaded to another ship and the Titanic towed to New York for repairs.

What actually happened, as we all know, the ship hit the iceberg on the right side, puncturing six? bulkheads. Titanic sank.

About 2 years after the Titanic disaster another ship encountered an iceberg in fog. The Captain remembered Titanic and threw the engines into reverse. The ship hit the berg head on - but survived. They named the manuvere of ramming an iceberg 'The Murdoch Maneuvere' - even though he didn't actually do that on the night.
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his problem was only, that he could not measure the distance to the iceberg and therefore he could not know, that he wouldn't make it. so his choice was to try it or to hit the iceberg frontally and kill all the people (mostly crew members) sleeping in the front part of the ship.
 
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