What if you want it to sink? Then you waste good time getting a very large ship going and ram it into a pier, and the damage from that might not be enough for it to sink. I feel it necessary to add there is barely any traffic in free mode, and the developers apparently forgot to add mooring posts that you dock your ship to. You choose a ship (bear in mind only one!), a place in the world - ports, such as Southampton, New York, San Francisco, and the Phi Phi Islands or open water, such as the Atlantic, English Channel, and Mediterranean - a specific location in that place, customize the weather, all to your desires. In free roam, there is practically nothing to do but pilot one ship. In all honesty, though, the only things that are cool about SS2008 are the missions. I posted this to bring up several reasons why I greatly prefer Virtual Sailor.Īll the games I own that you've probably never heard of are fun in their own little way. Now I have little against Ship Simulator (I do not own Extremes, I only have 2008), I enjoy it quite a bit, but just because it's more realistic doesn't mean it's better than Virtual Sailor. I have a pretty mediocre memory, I don't exactly remember if he was just saying that because it was a fact or if he was implying that Ship Simulator was better in some way to him and his fellow posters. While browsing the thread (I cannot give you the exact quote, I doubt I can find it again, although feel free to bother searching for it), one of those against the stern thrusters suggested they should just play Virtual Sailor, and apparently denounced it as unrealistic. Ships by default included with stern thrusters (like the Fairmount Sherpa) would not be affected by this option, nor would ships with more unusual ways of propulsion (such as the Red Jet 4 and Red Eagle).īut that's not the point I'm here to discuss today. In all honesty, I think they should've included an option that users could enable to put fake stern thrusters on a ship for less experienced users.

There was a fairly large debate on to include stern thrusters, and the original poster was continuously dismissed by the more experienced posters, stating the lack of stern thrusters on ships like the Vermaas, Latitude, Pride of Rotterdam, and others among others was more realistic, considering that proper combined use of the propellers and rudder would act as a substitute. I decided to post something different from the movie today, doing what a more average blogger would do.Ībout a week or so ago, I was trying to figure out the point of stern thrusters on a ship, and stumbled on a post on the Ship Simulator forum saying that ships in SS2008 (this was dated circa 2008, if I remember right) should have stern thrusters.

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