Thanks for any advice, input, and experiences anyone has to offer. If I take the plunge, will I be a satisfied user a few months down the road? I'm very much an advocate of independent gaming, but $25 is a bit on the high end of what I'm willing to pay for such programs these days. The terrain, sea and graphics are greatly improved, and also it offers an extensive set of NMEA output messages. Is VS good for this? I saw a small selection of historical craft, but no specifically historical scenery.Īlso, has the community pretty much died off, or are there still active modders/builders out there? Virtual Sailor NG offers a great improvement over Vehicle Simulator and is dedicated to ships and boats only, however all the capabilities of Vehicle Simulator still exist and it can simulate also airplanes.

While I'll likely spend some time sailing around the Great Lakes, New England, and the Caribbean in a modern sailboat, I'm chiefly interested in historical sailing ships and would like as immersive an experience as possible when doing so. The list of downloadable ships on their site seems quite small, and the area list (while more impressive than the ship-list) seems like it could stand to be a bit more robust. It seems like there's not a whole lot of user-created content out there, though. Parts of it seem very well thought out (navigational stuff, wind/waves, etc.). I'm trying to decide if the program itself is worth the cost. And the boats in the demo handle nicely enough, although the demo timer's too short to really take them anywhere. The graphics look ancient in screenshots, but not too terrible in game. I can't imagine that he's the only VS user around these parts. Then I saw a VS-related link in some of Pieter's stuff just yesterday, and I figured that it was about time to check it out. I learned about this sim quite a long while ago, but never seriously looked into it. Advanced yet easy to use virtual environment, allowing 360 degrees. I've been checking out the Virtual Sailor demo, and was wondering if anyone else around here uses it regularly and is willing to give their impressions. Built using the latest technology in 3D graphic acceleration, sound mixing and multiplay.

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