That is the only way to enjoy it.įlight Simulator is really easy make, they just grab all the land photos from google earth.Īnd they just concentrate on making the airports (which are the same generic buildings for every airport ) Unless of course you have add on scenery. Last but not least, please accept flight sims and ship sims as two different entities and do not compare them. You can see the 'wealth' of actual real world ship related activities here and many of them will really test your skills. There is quite some work involved in creating a custom mission, testing it and finally getting it approved by Custom Mission Managers. Enthusiasts have created missions for the sheer fun of it and made it available as free downloads.

There are close to 300 missions there and all free downloads. Ship Simulator 2008 was a great hit among Shipsim fans. So you see, you are not missing anything really !!

If you want to pick and choose your departure and arrival port you have the liberty to create your own missions using the Mission Editor, but it is limited to the environments available in SSE. In fact the 30 odd missions which came with the software certainly covers a fair amount of this activity you mention. You will certainly notice the abundance of 'real world shipping activity' then. You have to understand that SSE is at its infancy and as time passes you will have access to a whole lot of missions which can be downloaded for free all created by enthusiasts of the game. Instead you are given the opportunity to navigate in the port waters (where your skills can be tested) and once out of that port, you are 'teleported' (transferred) to another port entrance many miles away.

Yes, you can sail from one port to another but it would not make sense to simulate a trans Atlantic crossing as it will lead to boredom. Though both simulators have the 'transportation' theme it is definitely different from each other and if you can accept this fact you will enjoy using SSE.

It has been observed on the Forum, that there is a general tendency to use 'FSX' as a datum for simulators and then compare other simulators with it. Admittedly, SSE does not cover all the ports in the world as that is not entirely feasible.

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