I'll take your word for it because I haven't done either and so have no knowledge of them. But I do understand mechanics and applied forces and from my point of view (a complete novice) I can understand the tall ship way easier than the modern frigate. With some basic understanding of the computer system I'd probably think differently but right now it's easier to see how the tall ship works because I can literally see a response for each action, whereas on the frigate I flick a switch and trust the engineer that designed it.
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Hmmm, considering your RL skills you'd probably be a lot of fun to teach with regards to Tall ships.
After thinking about this more carefully, I think the term "dumbed-down" is far too derogatory and inflammatory, it's just insulting really. When I'm on my boat I've never thought to myself "man this is nothing compared to that Tall ship, what a fracking joke, screw this! Anybody want a nice Chris Craft?"
Sure one is much easier to get used to (in my experience), but they're just so different. I guess what I'm saying is I don't look down on anyone who can only operate a modern vessel as opposed to one from the past. How foolish would that be. But nonetheless it is interesting to note the difference in the "learning curve" with respect to both technologies.
But in your analogy I don't think you are taking into account the differences of abilities of the different craft. Todays boats, planes, cars all move at much faster speeds and are required to do a hell of a lot more than the early models. Try sailing a tall ship at the speeds and maneuvers that modern day frigates can achieve and I think sailing a tall ship would be much harder (for that matter try driving a Model T at the speeds a car today can achieve). The increases in technology, having technology do much of the tedious work for us has allowed modern versions of all vehicles to perform far better than anything in the past.
You ignored my plane analogy and I think it fits pretty well. With very minimal training you could probably fly an old tigermoth, you could not do the same with a modern jet. Technology exists to make hard tasks easier. It is called progress. I don't think the astronauts who fly the space shuttle hark back to the good old days of Apollo controls or that they feel that a space shuttle is "dumbed down".
Am I making any sense, I don't know. I think I threw a few too many things in there
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Dumbed down ->
Map with player cursor
Map with quest locations highlighted
Raids that are too easy
PvE that relies on clicking addons repeatedly
WoW
etc.
But in your analogy I don't think you are taking into account the differences of abilities of the different craft. Todays boats, planes, cars all move at much faster speeds and are required to do a hell of a lot more than the early models. Try sailing a tall ship at the speeds and maneuvers that modern day frigates can achieve and I think sailing a tall ship would be much harder (for that matter try driving a Model T at the speeds a car today can achieve). The increases in technology, having technology do much of the tedious work for us has allowed modern versions of all vehicles to perform far better than anything in the past.
You ignored my plane analogy and I think it fits pretty well. With very minimal training you could probably fly an old tigermoth, you could not do the same with a modern jet. Technology exists to make hard tasks easier. It is called progress. I don't think the astronauts who fly the space shuttle hark back to the good old days of Apollo controls or that they feel that a space shuttle is "dumbed down".
Am I making any sense, I don't know. I think I threw a few too many things in there
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