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Originally Posted by Molon Labe
A little surprising. I know there's a hardcode that makes D-E subs run their diesels on occasion, but I think they usually do it snorkeling. Did you set up the mission to force them to surface on some interval?
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I know, that's why I posted it! :-)
I just let the AI do it's thing. There was no coding at all in it. Something I've noticed, and this goes back to my usual axe to grind, is that people don't make missions with the correct distance and time scales in mind. Out of 24 submarines in the whole scenario, I only saw 2 pop up in 3 hours. Part of that was due to the limitations of my radar horizon at 2000ft too. There might have been more and I just didn't see them.
None the less, if you throw enough submarines in there, eventually, you'll see them surface. Another thing I've noticed is that submarines at periscope depth will go deep when a helo goes near them. I guess they're trying to avoid the MAD. There's actually a lot of interesting behaviors built into the stock AI, but they're realistic ones, which means that yeah, the submarines won't pop up a whole lot, but they do pop up.