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Originally Posted by gap
You are probably right about the complexity of coding it. But I wouldn't call it "a small gain in realism" as it would make the reporting officer to behave as a sentient being, instead of a stupid random numbers generator  |
What I'll add to the code is having it remember which unit the game used for the nearest visual contact distance. I'll also store the actual distance to the unit along with last random distance calculated. Then if player asks for nearest visual contact the code will check to see if the same unit is found, if so then it will check actual distance to see if it's changed some amount (I'll make that a variable in the patch file). If the distance changed >= variable amount then calculate new random distance. If distance changed < variable amount return last random distance calculated.
How's that? I don't want anything too complex. I just wanted something to get rid of the perfect range estimate every time you asked for nearest visual contact.