Why has this not been done? If there is a market for truck driving and train conducting I'm sure there is a market for ship captaining.īasically, realistically simulating a massive ship like a freighter or oil tanker is quite difficult. You could even create AI ships to properly crowd the ports. Along with the general design of various ports. It shouldn't be that hard to get specs for various ships and boats. You would only have to render coastlines, and the ocean around you could simply be randomly generated. Or you could just take a pontoon boat onto a lake, realistically made to simulate actual pontoon boats.Īfter seeing the world created by Microsoft flight sim, it doesn't seem impossible. Maybe you can even own your own shipping company, kind of like ETS. I would love to be able to captain a freighter across the Atlantic, Pilot it into port, and mark a course for the next destination, along with keeping track of cargo. The only ones I can find are rife with poor reviews, and people asking a similar question. But there are no good simulators for captaining ships. Extremely detailed truck sims, extremely detailed off-road transporting sims, and even extremely detailed train sims. You have extremely detailed flying sims, several of them. Basically, why are there no decent and well-made ship captaining sims out there? This is something I have always had an interest in, yet it seems to be completely, or mostly non-existent.

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