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om1217 (6 posts)
Aug-28-01, 11:11 PM (EST) "CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows if Microsoft is planning on creating a Sim which lets u drive a cruise ship to different ports of call. I think that would be a great idea. Please let me know if anyone knows anything.
Thanks!
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! Walt Aug-29-01 1 Tugboats, instead? AggieTrainEngineer Aug-29-01 2 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! wecline Aug-29-01 3 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! SoRwy471 Aug-29-01 4 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! cjmaclean Aug-29-01 5 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! pointroberts Aug-29-01 6 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! easagrippa Aug-29-01 7 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! michigandon Aug-29-01 8 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! Alex Aug-29-01 9 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! Kuchinator Aug-29-01 10 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! LocoRo Aug-30-01 12 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! ChckHbrt Aug-30-01 11 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! hobo1 Aug-30-01 13 RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!! chucksc Aug-30-01 14

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Walt (110 posts)
Aug-29-01, 09:43 AM (EST) 1. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" Sounds pretty dull to me. Hours and days of running across open ocean. Even the real ones run on auto pilot most of the time except when they are close to shore. Docking and anchoring under various conditions would be interesting, and an occasional storm would liven things up, but I don't see any long-term challenges for repeat playing. Besides, one of the cruise lines is sure to object that it would encourage someone to steal a cruise ship Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
AggieTrainEngineer (10 posts)
Aug-29-01, 12:05 PM (EST) 2. "Tugboats, instead?" Actually, I think a TUGBOAT simulator might be interesting. The action would be centered around a harbor and you could throw in some barge towing, too. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
wecline (33 posts)
Aug-29-01, 03:51 PM (EST) 3. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" Ilan Papini, of Hangsim.com has a virtual sailing program which includes several cruise boats. Pretty good sim, with addon's, scenery all over the world, etc. Go here for info:
http://www.hangsim.com/vs/ (be patient...the home page takes a few minutes to load).Bill Cline Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
SoRwy471 (210 posts)
Aug-29-01, 04:09 PM (EST) 4. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" Not this boring topic again
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cjmaclean (237 posts)
Aug-29-01, 05:09 PM (EST) 5. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" Hey, why not? In order to spice up your dull sailor's life, it would, however, HAVE to include such niceties as perished foods leading to food poisoning among the crew/passengers, engine room fires, bow gates not properly closed on ferries, errant antiship missiles swarming in due to an error on the part of the other nation's naval commander, or maybe the dreaded Bermuda triangle swallowing your poor ship and spitting it out in a different space-time continuum.And as a follow-up, MS might produce a Ship COMBAT Simulator! This one would, of course, include ships from all eras when man had plied the oceans. Wouldn't it be interesting to see how a Greek trireme would do against the battleship Yamato, or some WWII Japanese naval bombers against today's AEGIS cruisers??? Ever since I saw that terribly wrong harbor scene in the movie Pearl Harbor (Spruance class DDs mingled in among those WWII battlewagons...anybody else noticed that, too???????!!!!!!), I have been asking myself that question...
Sorry, I must be terribly tired to write such a nonsensical ramble as this ...
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pointroberts (4 posts)
Aug-29-01, 05:52 PM (EST) 6. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" Sounds good to me... can't wait to try out the new improved Marine Route Editor and Route Geometry Extractor from MS/Kuju!!!!At least you won't have to worry about those da*n consists!!! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
easagrippa (26 posts)
Aug-29-01, 06:41 PM (EST) 7. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" Instead of ships to paradise, how rails in Paradise. For example the FEC's Key West extension or the Bermuda Railway. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
michigandon (53 posts)
Aug-29-01, 07:29 PM (EST) 8. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" Make a Great Lakes version and I MIGHT consider it.Don Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Alex (123 posts)
Aug-29-01, 07:36 PM (EST) 9. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" WOOOOOOOOW!! thanks dude, whatta sim!I'm downloading the tanker add-on,off to try it out
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Kuchinator (34 posts)
Aug-29-01, 10:24 PM (EST) 10. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" sounds interesting, i wouldnt buy it, but im sure there are some who would. i would prefer that kuju and microsoft focus on fixing all the bugs in MSTS before trying a new game Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
LocoRo (153 posts)
Aug-30-01, 05:56 PM (EST) 12. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" >Ilan Papini, of Hangsim.com has a
>virtual sailing program which includes
>several cruise boats. Pretty
>good sim, with addon's, scenery
>all over the world, etc.
> Go here for info:
>
>http://www.hangsim.com/vs/ (be patient...the home page
>takes a few minutes to
>load).
>
>Bill Cline Thanks for that url , indeed its a very nice sim !! with good scenery and addon's !!Thanks,greetings Roland
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ChckHbrt (230 posts)
Aug-30-01, 02:11 AM (EST) 11. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" Put a set of rails under it and I'm ready. Hawaii, Alaska, Europe I can't wait.Chuck Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
hobo1 (8 posts)
Aug-30-01, 06:07 PM (EST) 13. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" After Spending 7.5 yrs looking at the world thru a PORTHOLE .... I can think of other thing's to spend my time on .... like Train's .... RC plane's .... model RR in local club ... Don't get me wrong I liked the sea .... traveled 3/4 around this world of ours' and saw a lot of thing's I most likely would never have seen ... but as a sim .... no thank's ...
just remember ... the NAVY stand's for Never Again Volunteer Yourself .... <g> .....
Ex Sailor off the USS IWO JIMA LPH-2 .. US Navy Vet... 1980-1987
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chucksc (201 posts)
Aug-30-01, 07:33 PM (EST) 14. "RE: CRUISE SHIP SIMULATOR!!!" Oh I don't know about never again volunteer yourself????
Chuck Schneider
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