[Andrew Lonon]

Jim:

Your observations are like a microcosm of the whole game industry where �market forces� seem more important than both realistic games and even fun.

However, how realistic is it actually to play one of these games on a computer? It seems fairly abstracted to me, that is to say � quite different from what Nelson, or De Grass (SP?) would have experienced. One (fairly wild) thought I had for Salvo II is to have a �Crew Interface� where the Captain or Admiral only had the option of �talking� to his First Officer, Helmsman, Flag Captain, Signal Crew & Midshipmen. With the right graphics and enough �character,� that would start to be a �Realistic� Captain or Admiral Sim.