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Redd -> Am I the only one? (12/28/2005 5:06:58 AM)
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When I first read through the manuel to UV, I was immediately struck by the rule whereby damaged ships automatically seperate and go their own way. Where the hell did that come from? I thought that the idea of scuttling a ship was to get the crew (supposedly the important part) off of the ship. That's kind of hard when the rest of the taskforce sails off blowin' rasberries, thumbing their noses and saying " Sucks to be you!"[:'(].
A month or two ago there was a thread where someone was complaining about the fact that they felt that their IJN carriers were sinking too easily. Someone else replied by posting historical accounts describing the sinkings of said carriers and the attempts at damage control. At no time were those stricken ships abandoned by their fellow sailors.
I am by no means a historian by trade, but I have been interested in military history since I checked out my first library book in the third or fourth grade (on Guadalcanal of course). I have never read about a ship being abandoned without rescuing the crew and scuttling the ship. I've read much complaining about about "gameyness" in this forum, but this is built right into the code.
The way I see it, Witp devides the day into a "night" impulse and then an "AM" impulse followed by a "PM" impulse. The amount of daylight on any given day for any given location varies over the course of the year, as well as by lattitude and weather. For game purposes I assume that the turn starts at or about 1800 hours. The night pulse lasts untill roughly 0600, the AM untill 1200, and the PM untill 1800 hours.
Witp lets you make decisions down to the level of TF commander. It seems to make sense to me that as that commander, after along day of strike and counterstrike,bombs falling, men dying, right around the end of the day (1800 hours) would be the time that I would be making the hard decisions about scuttling a ship. Why does the program strip my damaged ships and leave them spread out based on speed to be picked off individually?
In my mind this pretty much proves weather Witp was meant to be a game or a simulation. If it was meant to be a simulation this rule would not be in existense. Yet in all of the posts that i have read, all of the AAR's that I have followed, all of the bitching about this rule or that change, I have never once seen anyone mention this aspect of the game.
Am I the only one that sees a problem here?
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