Hello!
First i want to say that Bridge Command is exceptional simulator and my hat down goes to the author and contributors of this program. BC have good chance to evolve in best ship simulator available to common users. Like radar sim he already surpassed commercial games like VS7, VSF and SS Extremes in that field, and radar operation is what I like the most.
Relative simplicity of importing ships and sceneries fro VS7 is one more good trait of this sim.
Unfortunately I have some issues with coded parts of BC4. Most specific of those are that:
BC4 dont have damage modeling, not visual damage(who cares about visuals), but damage like hull integrity precentage or similar.
Sinking is not simulated and when collision occurs ship models just pass trough each other (very annoying ) althoug he have "Mission Failed" message, which is OK.
When you run aground you dont get any penalty for doing that.
Bow thrusters are nonexistent and ship dynamic behavior like loss of speed during sharp turn is not simulated. Yeah I know that this is now neat pickings
Is there any "easier" way to change at least some of those points named above?
I edited source file "BC4.bb" with "UltraEDIT" program but this BC4.bb is just "source code" and BC dont use any data from this file during play so editing this is aint going to help.
I tried to counter collision event (bypassing ships and nonexistent damage) by doing that when collision occurs that mission ends. Like "YOU ARE COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER VESSEL" please press "ENTER" to exit the game. MISSION FAILED!
Please take my apologies if I bugged you to much. This is just a sort of "constructive criticism" and it would be good if there is any way to correct that or if we will see some of this features added to BC4 in near future. If not, BC4 already is a good sim just as it is now.
Thanks.