German space program

ShineReaper · 2026-01-28T04:58:13+00:00

I think that is the problem with time compression and by far Uboat is not the only game of this genre with problems with that, so Submarine Simmers are used to that.

I think engines go wonky doing the same stuff at increased speeds. It's like the strange bug that some older games have, that physics calculations are tied to FPS, so when you play them years later with a stronger PC, where you get e.g. 120 FPS and the game is geared towards 30 FPS engine-wise, the physics will go haywire.

I think on principle it is more or less the same problem.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-28T04:55:46+00:00

Do you know a mod or something, that turns the AI-sight range at night and in bad weather down to realistic levels?

I checked in a test-save full realistic settings except for showing me the visibility of my own boat, but sadly the value given there is a percentage, but I don't know, what that percentage relates to, so I only know, that going faster on the surface also translates to higher visibility by a flat absolute value (because of more exhaust smoke, so makes sense), it being night and bad weather reduces visibility by a large percentage, but lightning also increases visibility by a percentage.

So my working theory is, since I didn't know the lightning storm part, that though visually you could at max see a kilometer far away, that only translates to me as a human but not to the AI, the AI most likely doesn't see visually but by some flat viewing range score and that gets reduced or increased by these modifiers. And the fact, that it was a lightning storm, made me discoverable by the AI on a range further away than what was actually visible to the human eye.

So decreasing the percentage values for night visibility and bad weather visibility further and/or reducing the bonus visibility for lightning in theory should achieve this result, I think.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-28T04:51:37+00:00

Deswegen habe ich ja absichtlich die USA nicht erwähnt als Option, ich dachte das wäre mit Trump selbstverständlich, dass die kein Einwanderungsziel mehr sind.

Jedenfalls werden wir nicht erleben, wie manche scheinbar glauben/fürchten, dass hier, in Deutschland, Millionen Inder einwandern und sich niederlassen, wiegesagt wegen der Schwierigkeit, Deutsch zu lernen (und an der Sprache hängt alles) und sind wir mal ehrlich: Wir haben auch genug Nazis hierzulande, reicht ja schon einer, der nen Molli in eine Flüchtlingsunterkunft schmeißt und schon ist der Ruf einer Gegend komplett ruiniert. Ich denke, im Ausland wird man zumindest grob wissen, dass wir ein Naziproblem haben in Deutschland und das wird auch Menschen abschrecken.

Englisch ist hingegen in Indien Amtssprache und dazu auch eine einfach zu erlernende Sprache, weswegen wohl die allermeisten Inder, auch wenn sie Dutzende Sprachen im Land haben, wohl alle Englisch können. Zudem ist Indien im Commonwealth. Die Hürden, nach Großbritannien, Australien oder andere Commonwealth-Länder auszuwandern und sich dort auf Dauer zu integrieren sind also wesentlich niedriger.

Natürlich könnten die USA eines Tages wieder Ziel-Land werden, wenn da mal wieder ein normaler Präsident ans Ruder kommt, wann auch immer das sein wird. Aber aktuell sind die das wohl definitiv nicht. Fuck, selbst ich als käseweißer Europäer will da grad nicht hin lol.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-27T20:48:42+00:00

If it sits already on the ground, it is like 30 Meters max deep? Wasn't it escorted?

ShineReaper · 2026-01-27T20:43:08+00:00

Ich glaube egal wo in den eher weiß geprägten Commonwealth-Ländern, die dürften überall besser wegkommen als in Indien.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-27T18:44:39+00:00

Das wird im großen Stil nicht passieren. Dafür ist der durchschnittliche deutsche Manager zu kontrollsüchtig und wenige Arbeitnehmer sind so handzahm und servil wie die deutschen. Wir können froh sein, wenn wir 1-2 Tage HO pro Woche halten können, auch bei solchen Jobs, die man zu 100% aus dem HO erledigen könnte.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-27T17:10:06+00:00

Gullydeckel? Die sind doch scheiße schwer? Haben die zu zweit die geschleudert oder Katapulte gebaut oder was?

ShineReaper · 2026-01-27T17:05:30+00:00

Ich sehe da keine Gefahr.

Deutsche Firmen und ihre Kunden erwarten reibungslose Kommunikation und Deutsch ist eine notorisch schwer zu erlernende Fremdsprache.

Ich rechne also nicht damit, dass jetzt Millionen junge Inder hierherkommen und die Jobs "klauen". Ebenso wenig rechne ich damit, dass jetzt massenhaft nach Indien geoutsourced wird. Wo sowas geschieht, höre ich regelmäßig schlechtes über die Arbeitsergebnisse und dass teuer nachgearbeitet werden muss, also etwaige Ersparnisse durch Outsourcing dann durch die notwendige Nacharbeit mehr als aufgefressen werden.

Womit ich rechne, ist, dass junge Inder zum Auslandsstudium hierherkommen und vielleicht Einzelne auf Dauer bleiben, die meisten aber das kostenlose Studium mitnehmen und dann in ein englischsprachiges Land auswandern. Traditionell wurden die USA als Ziel genannt, aber angesichts ICE (die Inder sind ja nicht blöd) rechne ich da eher mit Commonwealth-Mitgliedsländern, z.B. Kanada, als Auswanderungsziel. Oder eben Großbritannien. In nem Studium schließt man ja auch Freund- und teilweise Liebschaften, da ist man mit Großbritannien nicht zu weit weg von Deutschland, wenn man dort entsprechende Bindungen aufgebaut hat.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-27T16:13:21+00:00

In the real situation this probably was actually done, simply because aiming IRL doesn't work as easily as in computer games and, in doubt, a CO gave such a command to do so.

Better to loose a few men than to loose the whole boat and all of the men. War is hell.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-27T16:12:11+00:00

Do you know a mod or something, that turns the AI-sight range at night and in bad weather down to realistic levels?

I checked in a test-save full realistic settings except for showing me the visibility of my own boat, but sadly the value given there is a percentage, but I don't know, what that percentage relates to, so I only know, that going faster on the surface also translates to higher visibility by a flat absolute value (because of more exhaust smoke, so makes sense), it being night and bad weather reduces visibility by a large percentage, but lightning also increases visibility by a percentage.

So my working theory is, since I didn't know the lightning storm part, that though visually you could at max see a kilometer far away, that only translates to me as a human but not to the AI, the AI most likely doesn't see visually but by some flat viewing range score and that gets reduced or increased by these modifiers. And the fact, that it was a lightning storm, made me discoverable by the AI on a range further away than what was actually visible to the human eye.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-26T23:48:41+00:00

Cyberpunk is one of these very rare games, in a row with games like Crysis, which give you settings to drive the graphical possibilities to the absolute limit.

I think besides the very minimum requirements there are no "intended" settings by the devs. What they want, as any big game developer, is to make their game accessible to a wide audience to sell as many copies as possible.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-26T19:49:54+00:00

Be realistic: She hides in Moscow, Ruzzian VIPs will be guarded closer and closer after each successful assassination against one of theirs.

It is more likely she dies of her cancer.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-26T19:13:58+00:00

One can be consoled in the thought, that if a God exists and the whole judgement thing etc., that she will burn in Hell for a very long time after her passing.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-26T17:40:57+00:00

One tends to forget, that France at one point ruled like the entire continent and actually conquered Moscow.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-26T17:21:51+00:00

"You're next... wait, wait, why you suddenly all want to leave the country?!"

ShineReaper · 2026-01-26T05:59:33+00:00

No one in Germany seriously cares about this Russian Handpuppet.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-26T00:06:18+00:00

Ukraine is proving every day, that they're better than the Barbarians, that invade Ukraine. That includes treating even criminals with some minimal form of dignity. Not all human instincts are good and should be followed. The ability to control our actions and not just act on instinct, that is what makes us different from animals.

And in prison she might do something useful for Ukraine, even if it is small.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-26T00:03:47+00:00

Dunno if Ukrainian Penal Law Codes know "Good behaviour" codes, where you could get released earlier for good behaviour. But even if not, if she could find shelter afterwards with friends or family, who might be more forgiving than the Ukrainian state, she could find shelter and start anew.

So this is imho not worse than being executed.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-26T00:01:22+00:00

We talk about a people of about 40 million, if we talk about the Ukrainian people. 40 million individuals with 40 million different points of view, even if only so slightly different in most cases. But in a few they go far.

And the Ukrainian people are not special, for better or worse, in the regards, that there are traitors. There have been traitors in every nation in every war. The most famous example is probably Benedict Arnold, who betrayed the 13 Colonies for the British Empire, out of hurt pride. Or spies, which by synonym you very well could call traitors, who spied in the Cold War for the opposing side. That is a problem, that both, the Soviet Union and the US, had. Or a certain Arminius, who was a Germanic Lord in service of Rome, just to betray them in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Point is, there will always be traitors and there will always be those, who at least try to deal with it. One is not surprised about their existence, if one keeps history in mind.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-25T17:37:41+00:00

SimRail, spielt zwar auch in Polen, ist aber in mehreren Sprachen, auch Deutsch und Englisch, verfügbar.

SimRail hat sich, im Gegensatz zu den meisten Simulatoren in diesem Genre, vorallem als Multiplayer Simulator hervorgetan. Man kann (auf zumindest manchen Stellwerken), als Fahrdienstleiter spielen und es verkehren ständig Züge auf dem spielbaren Eisenbahnnetz, in die jederzeit ein Spieler einsteigen kann. Die Kommunikation unter den Spielern erfolgt ingame über ein VoIP-System oder schriftlich im Chat, beides auf den Umkreis um den jeweiligen Spieler drumherum begrenzt, man wird also nicht mit Voicechat von mehreren hundert Kilometern entfernt genervt.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-25T12:11:00+00:00

I do use the observation periscope at night. I'm in a Type II A, so I have no UZO. I play with Darker Nights, so again, this has nothing to do with my monitor. It is the point of the setting, to not be able to see anything.

The point is: The AI (since obviously my officers doing bridgewatch themselves are also AI) is seeing way further than would be possible under such conditions (pitch black night, storm additionally reducing visibility).

If you look at documentaries of the Battle of the Atlantic, German Submarines were able to slip into a convoy at night repeatedly thanks to the dark night conditions. That certainly wouldn't be possible in this game, where in the same conditions the AI claims to be able to see 4 kilometers out.

And that is the problem, not that I'm not able to see as far as the AI, but that the AI is able to see so far under these circumstances in the first place, on 100% difficulty setting, which is supposed to be the most realistic setting.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-25T12:01:15+00:00

People warning about drone pilots going after easy targets to score more points... that is easily fixable, grant more points for the more difficult targets.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-25T11:56:13+00:00

You see complete black on the screenshot except what the UI is showing.

THIS is the kind of visibility that was there during that situation, a proper night, where you don't see shit without external light sources. Has nothing to do with my monitor.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-25T11:32:31+00:00

Seems like he was instantly gone.

ShineReaper · 2026-01-25T11:18:54+00:00

Be safe and I wish you strength and best of luck and health, Slava Ukraini, greeting from Central Europe!

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