TM and RSRD

[tomoose]

I just refuelled at Darwin and am heading back to Singapore. I've found that if I'm using TC I've got to watch the message menu like a hawk as numerous contacts are being called (i.e. "ship spotted") but I'm not dropping out of TC at all ergo I'm missing them or manually dropping out of TC but way too late to react to the contact. Is this a function of RSRD (I didn't seem to have this prob with TM) or just a glitch. It did drop out of warp later when a warship was spotted.
Kinda frustrating.

[AVGWarhawk]

You are probably spotting junks and sanpans. The game will not drop you out of TC. If it is a vessel worth checking out, the game will drop the TC for you. Sometimes it is just a US vessel. Sometimes Japanese. It would probably be more frustrating if the game stopped you for every vessel...especially the worthless junks.

[tomoose]

AVGW;
that's good to know! They did give me a ship spotted for a junk but I was in normal time so I eyeballed it to make sure then carried on.
thanks for the tip.
cheers,
:up:

[AVGWarhawk]

The only deal with the junks is you do not know if they are good or bad guys. In the vanilla version all were bad dudes. Perhaps a modder will make a happy mix. Maybe they have!

[Factor]

i leave the fishing boats alone, unless im off the coast of japan, then, they are proberly enemy. i doubt the junks and sampons are nips if they are out in the Java Sea or South China seas. i could be wrong tho.

[Fincuan]

An easy way to determine whether a fishing boat is friendly or enemy: Go near him. If he starts weaving and tries to run away, then he's an enemy.