Convoy Decoy ships

CptGlub · 05-23-17, 07:06 PM

So weird that this idea popped up! Just the other day I was dogging a medium sized convoy. Did an end around but when they showed up it was just half the merchants and no escorts. The merchants were all the runts from the pack I ran into earlier.

Right away my conspirator's mind thought that the tankers and the escorts veered off and sent the scrubs into the lion's den. Now THAT would be some programming.

Alas, not to be.

Turns out that something (natural sinking mechanics mod, me thinks) sank the big merchants and the three escorts were stuck with decks awash and couldn't move. They weren't sunk but they weren't moving either. We were in deep water so they weren't sunk and sitting on the bottom. Very strange.

Anyway, in my very next encounter, two big juicy troop transports showed up and sank for no reason before I merged with them.

That put me off my GFO obsession and back onto TMO. In fairness I should say that I don't know much about modding and probably screwed it up by loading contradictory mods. GFO has some fantastic features that I really enjoyed.

05-23-17, 07:06 PM	#5
CptGlub Mate Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 59 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	So weird that this idea popped up! Just the other day I was dogging a medium sized convoy. Did an end around but when they showed up it was just half the merchants and no escorts. The merchants were all the runts from the pack I ran into earlier. Right away my conspirator's mind thought that the tankers and the escorts veered off and sent the scrubs into the lion's den. Now THAT would be some programming. Alas, not to be. Turns out that something (natural sinking mechanics mod, me thinks) sank the big merchants and the three escorts were stuck with decks awash and couldn't move. They weren't sunk but they weren't moving either. We were in deep water so they weren't sunk and sitting on the bottom. Very strange. Anyway, in my very next encounter, two big juicy troop transports showed up and sank for no reason before I merged with them. That put me off my GFO obsession and back onto TMO. In fairness I should say that I don't know much about modding and probably screwed it up by loading contradictory mods. GFO has some fantastic features that I really enjoyed.