desirableroasted
08-26-07, 06:32 PM
This was odd....just how far away can you be from a ship you hit for SH3/GWX to record a sinking? How about 14 hours and more than 150 km...
I'm coming home on fumes through BF41, April 41, when I get word of a convoy. I whack it around 2030... sink a large merch and a large cargo, get one hit on a pyro and one hit on someone behind her (had my spread angle a little too wide). Glad for that much, given the crap weather.
I break off, hit them again at 0130, hoping to kill the pyro and whoever else I wounded. It's still foggy and I'm one row further in than I thought, so I end up snapshooting a whale ship (bow tubes), which goes down and a large merchant (stern), impact but no sink. No sight of my two wounded.
Ok, not good, but a nice cap on a good patrol. I'm down to 2 stern fish and running dry, so I break for home. Captain's log underway shows the three sinks.
Yet... when I get home, I've got mucho extra tonnage. A pyro went down about 45 mins after the 2nd attack... OK, could be that I was still in hydro range, but got no notice. But a large merchant went down 14 hours later in BF39, when I would have been 150+ km away...
I'm not complaining. I've been shortsheeted so often on kills that this is nice payback. But what's the algorithm for this stuff?
I'm coming home on fumes through BF41, April 41, when I get word of a convoy. I whack it around 2030... sink a large merch and a large cargo, get one hit on a pyro and one hit on someone behind her (had my spread angle a little too wide). Glad for that much, given the crap weather.
I break off, hit them again at 0130, hoping to kill the pyro and whoever else I wounded. It's still foggy and I'm one row further in than I thought, so I end up snapshooting a whale ship (bow tubes), which goes down and a large merchant (stern), impact but no sink. No sight of my two wounded.
Ok, not good, but a nice cap on a good patrol. I'm down to 2 stern fish and running dry, so I break for home. Captain's log underway shows the three sinks.
Yet... when I get home, I've got mucho extra tonnage. A pyro went down about 45 mins after the 2nd attack... OK, could be that I was still in hydro range, but got no notice. But a large merchant went down 14 hours later in BF39, when I would have been 150+ km away...
I'm not complaining. I've been shortsheeted so often on kills that this is nice payback. But what's the algorithm for this stuff?