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Hallo friends I just wondered about if there exists a Shp-Simulator comparable to FS2004 . With a nice community comparable to our one here,
nice sceneries to download and ships from a simple yole to supertankers. And saling ships that really work well as the FS2004 Bounty and her launch

It is certainly not the best forum where to put my question, so please dear adminstrator, put it where mostpeople can see and react.

Best regards

Michael
 
Hi Michael,

The easiest would be Henrik Nielsen's AI Ships, Boats and Global Traffic packages. But these are fro FSX only. Wth FS9 the Afcads are limited by the radius. Furthermore, AI ships are quite restricted, even if some CFS2 ships could be added. Last, but not least, FS9 sea waters aren't flatten everywhere, and therefore make often a suitable traffic rather difficult. It's mostly limited to harbour or costal seaways.

Of course, there are some Ship Simulators available as payware. But how friendly are them to create your own shipping world?

Bernard
 
I'm with you Michael, I have been looking for a sail sim for years! I'm an old school sailor and sailed for 30 years.
My interest in the naval side of the Napoleonic Wars would like a sim in that era as well.
 
michaelvader said:
Hallo friends I just wondered about if there exists a Shp-Simulator comparable to FS2004 . With a nice community comparable to our one here,
nice sceneries to download and ships from a simple yole to supertankers. And saling ships that really work well as the FS2004 Bounty and her launch

It is certainly not the best forum where to put my question, so please dear adminstrator, put it where mostpeople can see and react.

Best regards

Michael
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stoney said:
I'm with you Michael, I have been looking for a sail sim for years! I'm an old school sailor and sailed for 30 years.
My interest in the naval side of the Napoleonic Wars would like a sim in that era as well.
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Consider perhaps PiratesAhoy for a virtual historic sailing enthusiast community: https://www.piratesahoy.net/forums/
and the bona-fide freeware releases - mod overhauls that do not require the base game; mods still in development but playable and frequently updated:
cmdrhammie.itch.io

Beyond New Horizons by Hammie

Pirate and age-of-sail RPG
cmdrhammie.itch.io cmdrhammie.itch.io
captainshaven.itch.io

New Horizons Refined Edition by captainshaven

New Horizons mod running on Storm Engine 2.8 with DX9 and MSA support.
captainshaven.itch.io captainshaven.itch.io

Moreover, Imperial Glory, available on GOG has a naval warfare component set in the Napoleonic era: https://www.gog.com/en/game/imperial_glory

cheers!
 
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wolfebee89 said:
Consider perhaps PiratesAhoy for a virtual historic sailing enthusiast community: https://www.piratesahoy.net/forums/
and the bona-fide freeware releases - mod overhauls that do not require the base game; mods still in development but playable and frequently updated:
cmdrhammie.itch.io

Beyond New Horizons by Hammie

Pirate and age-of-sail RPG
cmdrhammie.itch.io cmdrhammie.itch.io
captainshaven.itch.io

New Horizons Refined Edition by captainshaven

New Horizons mod running on Storm Engine 2.8 with DX9 and MSA support.
captainshaven.itch.io captainshaven.itch.io

Moreover, Imperial Glory, available on GOG has a naval warfare component set in the Napoleonic era: https://www.gog.com/en/game/imperial_glory

cheers!
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Hey thanks Wolfbee I was totally unaware of these! I have been plying AOS2 PB. an oldie but still fun.
 
leuen said:
Hi Michael,

The easiest would be Henrik Nielsen's AI Ships, Boats and Global Traffic packages. But these are fro FSX only. Wth FS9 the Afcads are limited by the radius. Furthermore, AI ships are quite restricted, even if some CFS2 ships could be added. Last, but not least, FS9 sea waters aren't flatten everywhere, and therefore make often a suitable traffic rather difficult. It's mostly limited to harbour or costal seaways.

Of course, there are some Ship Simulators available as payware. But how friendly are them to create your own shipping world?

Bernard
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I suppose Erwin Welker's @Bavarian pilotable and AI ships for FS2004 available here and possibly simviation is perhaps also what @michaelvader is looking for...
 
Perhaps also of interest: Paradox / Nitro Games' East India Company Complete, available on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/sub/4190/ has realistic ship handling, management, physics and AI, and advertises cinematic naval battles, all from the golden days of privateering, piracy on the high seas, and globe spanning empire-building, including a historical simulation of the famed Battle of Trafalgar - an expansion pack by itself

reviews are a mixed bag, and inspite of the updates, some design issues persist

cheers!
 
@stoney Age of Sail II: Privateer's Bounty is still the gold standard for hard-core age of sail naval simulations, inspite of being severely dated; Empire Total War and EIC are graphically quite pleasing and modern if not cinematic, but lack in realism and depth, in spite of whatever is advertised; they are rather 'lite' compared to AoS II: PB; coming from AoS, ETW and EIC will surely disappoint, and likewise will IG, which has substantially less depth and realism in mechanics and handling when compared even to the likes of ETW; best then to go with stand-alone mods like Beyond New Horizons ;)

Hope the above helps!

cheers!
 
wolfebee89 said:
I suppose Erwin Welker's @Bavarian pilotable and AI ships for FS2004 available here and possibly simviation is perhaps also what @michaelvader is looking for...
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You are right. He did a tremendous work of all kind of ships. Unfortunately the AI versions are rather set curiously and therefore unuseable. Once I did a comment about that on FlightSim.com, but Edwin Walker never reacted. Nevertheless, The steerable ships do mostly work as AI.

Bernard
 
Good morning friends,
at first thank you for all your answers.
In fact what I search is a "platform " like FS2004, with some global scenery and some ships. Than even contained at one shio a sailing shiip that react on the users reactions and inputs to right trim of the the sails depending to the wind and sea conditions Like our prop planes react on right mixture and prop setings. and a community wo made freeware more detailed sceneries and other (sail)ships.
But I supose to dream. If such a sim will exist it would be known
Best regards
Michael
 
Hallo again,
I never was able to install Erwin Welkers into my sim. I tried with different one. But every time I tried to install one in the sim when I choose them the where as blown up in the air like take by a Typhoon. I tried to contact Erwin > his answer was clear: if it doesnt please you you are free to delet it. Danke!

Best regards

Michael
 
Still, for the most realistic experience of square rig sailing in FS2004 you can't beat Milton Shupe's HMS Bounty. The dynamics are perfect!
The only issue I have with AoS II PB is I can't fight my ship from the quarter deck, but I still play it regularly. A real ocean fell would help, something like that in the "Silent Hunter" submarine series.

Wolfbee, I tried to D/L those games you advised me about but into the D/L I was told they were forbidden. Go figure.
 
stoney said:
Still, for the most realistic experience of square rig sailing in FS2004 you can't beat Milton Shupe's HMS Bounty. The dynamics are perfect!
The only issue I have with AoS II PB is I can't fight my ship from the quarter deck, but I still play it regularly. A real ocean fell would help, something like that in the "Silent Hunter" submarine series.

Wolfbee, I tried to D/L those games you advised me about but into the D/L I was told they were forbidden. Go figure.
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Water in FS2004 likewise, leaves much to be desired; with the improved water-modelling/wave mechanics in FSX, perhaps Milton Shupe's Bounty and Victory for FSX may then be a more compelling choice... pity really, about the Beyond New Horizons download - dunno what gives :( well, anyhow, there is always the older New Horizons mod @ moddb, but you'd be needing the base game Pirates of the Caribbean ;)
 
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