I suspected it :lol: You guys didn't leave any corners unexplored :up:

However, I was playing this evening a bit in 1944 and got aircrafts even at 2048x TC :o due to the radar range. I doubt much that the radar has a faster sweep speed than lookout, so it's definately the radar range what is helping the aicraft detect me. Also, since I'm using the 16k environment, I suspect that my crew also spottes sometimes distant aircraft that have not yet detected me :hmm:

A greater range in visual for early war airplanes would therefore in my opinion increase detection at high TC with no cost in terms of CPU load. What drawbacks would come then? Well, probably a bit of vampire vision in the aircraft and may be some detection of your U-Boat at "irrealistic" ranges.

I understand and accept all your choices, it is obvious that GWX is above all a coherent pack, yet for people like me who have very little time to play, high TC is a need rather than a choice :cry: .

Thanks for throughout explanation :up:

Well, in GWX we've managed to avoid emplacing additional AI visual sensors for the sake of being better able to isolate and measure the effectiveness of the existing visual sensor.

Therefore, if you increase the range or shorten the sweep time of the enemy AI sensors for aircraft... the same effect then automatically applies to enemy ship-mounted sensors.

You could increase the sensitivity of the AI visual sensors... but then surface units would adopt the same increase in acuity... meaning that enemy surface ships would spot you more quickly than they do now.

Shortening the sweep times has the same effect as increasing visual acuity/sensitivity.

Without adding additional sensors to ALL the enamy patrol aircraft... it is a tall order.

I haven't looked at the radar set types on aircraft in a long time... but if these radar sets are specific to aircraft and are not used on surface vessels... and as long as you are ready to sacrifice a bit on realistic radar ranges... which were relatively short ranged on aircraft anyway IIRC... then we may have a sensor that can be adjusted to detect you more often without ruining other parts of the picture. (Would need to potentially double or triple its range.)

However again, the above conjectural fix for what you ask, will not affect aircraft that do not carry radar. (Though this shouldn't matter much... All of the 'primary' patrol planes carried radar once it was readily available based on the date.)

Hitman, the sensors settings are a very dense minefield. Isolating them and testing them is a huge pain. Following that further testing would need to be done with all sensors functioning as a package.

I'm not telling you that it cannot be done... but, let me put it this way:

Cdre Gibs found and explained where the minimum and maximum settings were on the sensors...

The hardest part was the isolation, adjustment, and testing both individually and as a package. For six months during the development of GWX 1.0 I did little else.

The concepts are straightforward... but the actual implimentation and tuning... is an entirely different kettle of fish.

Its pretty much like cleaning a gymnasium with a toothbrush.