I think 128x TC is a good balanced way of not getting bored and not to miss much events in the game.

Absolutely.

If all you do is stay on the surface, you will end up missing tons of ships, regardless of your TC. My strategy, depending on date, location and time of day, is to dive as soon as batteries are charged. Run for a while, surface until batteries ok and repeat.

And turn your hydrophone volume on high. The game default is on low which I believe lowers your chance to detect quite a lot.

How can one do it? In my settings, AFAIR, it's set to '0 db', which is maximum (so the defaults seems not to be low). :hmm: Any way to volume it up in the txt files?

Do you mean the actual manual settings on the machine? Does it stay there when the computer takes back over the station?

In my game I've never managed to change the hydrophone volume settings. The 'trigger' seems to be there fo immersion. Is it like that, or I do something wrong?

When you man the hydrophone yourself, you'll see a little volume dial on the right. You can raise and lower the volume by clicking the upper or lower half (of course you are doing this while submerged or you won't hear any difference). If you have the volume on your computer high enough, you should be able to hear a slight difference most of the time.

That's got me worried too:o .
Didn't know a thing about a volume control.

But then there's so much that that rubbish manual left out, and I've found out in this forum.

Tried hard. Seems totally unmovable. :shifty: Can it be a bug in my installation? I don't want to believe I'm such stupid... :/

You don't move anything. You'll just hear a slight difference in sound as you change from one to the other. Click near the top of the dial a few times, just to make sure.

I believe I saw a statistical analysis done by someone involved with NYGM that established that 256 TC was the highest one should go for the best merchant contact frequency when patrolling a given grid. I assume that might be true for traversing space to get to assigned grid.

What fooled me is that it's a knob, so I thought you turned it. As far as I can tell, it's really more like a toggle switch - high or low - and to get the toggle to high, I just click on the upper half of the knob.

If you go really slow, and speed up TC, would it be the same as going full speed at lower TC?
I would assume your men would be able to see the same number of ships in the same area covered, but I don't know.

No matter how fast/slow or how high/low TC I have, I seldom see any ship anyway. after several hours realtime looking at navmap, I usuall go to sleep without anything happening.


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This is probably why the standard max TC setting in NYGM is 256.

x128 is fine for general movement I find, however I keep down to x64 when tracking down a map contact. x128 will land you just a little too close to a convoy and risk being sighted in clear calm conditions. It can also limit your strategic options as to how to attack, unles you are preepared to spend the time repossitioning the boat for a better aproach. On my last outing from Wilhelmshaven before I was transfered to Lorient, I encountered aircraft 31 times between Lerwick and my patrol grid DJ15. I decided going back through the chanel would be the quieter option. I tried my chanel hopping aproach of using French ports full of German destroyers as extra anti-aircraft cover during daylight. Starting with Cherbourg, then on to the rest in the line. It seemed to work :p

Entering Cherbourg
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Guys the best way to actually check the volume on the Hydrophone is when you are submerged before you turn your Batteries off........just point the hydrophone at your 180 position until you can "hear" your prop noise....then it is easy to tell when playing with the knob when the volume is "high". Then you can turn of the batteries and do your sweep.....it should stay on High until you exit after playing a session I think...then, just like resetting your torpedoes after a save, you must readjust the knob....you will miss a ton of stuff with this knob in the "Low" setting.