My remarks on the new hydro follow order...
- first and most important: you are using the true bearing for moving the hydrophone pointer, but the hydrophone was done for giving relative bearings. It means that your implementation of the hydro follow order works properly only when our sub is facing nord. In any other case it gives wrong results... :yep:
- after locking the target on periscope and activating the order from officers order bar, I receveid confirmation of it on the messagebox. I was expecting to receive regular updates on the contact in the same messagebox, but after a while I realized that I had to go to hydrostation and to read myself the bearing. I think we can survive with it, but it would be cool having also a log on the contact, possibly written and spoken, like the one we receive with the order "follow nearest contact".
- As we said the day before yesterday, besides locking on visual targets, I was expecting also to be able to set a bearing on the hydrophone, for acquiring the the contact closest to that direction. Indeed using that method we risk not to pick the right contact, but what if we want to follow a contact out of sight? Is it possible to add another option for doing it?
- when we are out of the hydro station, the sonarman keeps on with any other task he had been given before: normal sweeping, following nearest target, etc. Could you make him to stop doing so, for focusing 100% on his current duty? :D
- I would put the "follow hydro target" and "follow target on hydro bearing" buttons not in the root of soundman orders bar, but grouped together with the "normal sweep" and "follow nearest target" goup.
For the time being that's all! :up:
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