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[Holly-Woods]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hauitsme:
There is no-one here to answer the 'true and accurate reason' question though. Never has been a peep from anyone with the 'knowledge'. Sorry <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thank you!

[himlaviz]

Maybe there is a market for strategy guides like we see to games like World of Warcraft with more indepth tips, history and information about the subs / fighters or whatever the sim is based on.

Or make them more like history books that might be focused more to other costumers then simmers, include a demo of the sim in the book where they might have the oppertunity to relive some of the historical events that took place.

I have the binder edition of Falcon 4 and its one impressive manual, also Longbow 2 has a very nice manual, it was also translated into swedish with all keywords also in english as (thank god) the sim itself still was in full english, great way to do a manual imo.

Done right I think sims have a mass market, ranging from the novice (arcade fan) to the veteran (hardcore realism), then people can choose their settings or grow with the simulator and raise the realism as they improve.

Sometimes realism is more about creating an illusion of it, I remember that I thought of Red Storm Rising as a realistic game on the C64, mostly because of the right atmosphere more then realistic.

[Philipscdrw]

Maybe Ubi want to release, or a third party will release, an expanded manual for SH3 as a seperate product - like the late Nic Coles' Lomac advanced manual. That is the best of both worlds, really - the casual gamer gets a cheap (60-page manual) game, which provides him with all the info he needs to get playing quickly, and the more serious simmer can purchase a detailed manual which gives him the more in-depth information he requires, and gives the publisher/3rd-party valuable income to make more stuff.

[sgr_wilson]

You could buy the real thing Amazon.com
sells "the U-Boat commanders handbook"
for $8.95 +p&p. This is a direct translation
of the handook issued to all U-Boat commanders
in 1943.