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Originally Posted by ridgewayranger
Hi Everyone,
First may I say there are plenty of targets in GWX3 but I have also found that they are not always credited. Just finished patrol 7 during which I sank 2 fat merchantmen off the Shetlands, watched them sink, lifeboats and waving survivors, the whole shooting match, but only one icon came up, so only one credit for me. My flotilla commander thinks I'm lying!!!
Incidentally, on my previous patrol I took a peek inside Scapa, no installations! Where did they go? Anyway as consolation I got 2 destroyers guarding the Eastern entrance. Took them out with bow and stern shots almost simultaneously. God it felt good when those two blew up!!! Now for the club and a few beers and maybe something else!
RR
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The Ghost ship phenomenon explained
The Ghost ship phenomenon can also occur without saving and reloading:
You sink the first ship in shallow water. Part of the ship is still sticking out of the water (even just a little bit). So the software still remembers the ship as an entity, because it still have to graphically render the sunk ship as sunk (you will still be able to see the ship with your periscope under water).
As soon as you gets 25 KM from the sunk ship, the game stop fully renders ship (meaning, to conserve memory, the game "forgot" the damage already done to it.) All the game now remembers is, a ship, at certain location, certain speed, is heading at a certain direction, sans prior damage. But the games still remembers that you have received credit for sinking this ship (same entity ID). So you won't get credit for the second sink.
If you save (and then reload) the game where a sunk ship have not yet sunk deep enough to be deleted from memory, loading this game will also generate the sunk ship (sans damage) at the same location, same direction and speed but sinking this ship won't give you credit again.
Conclusion:
In shallow water, (such as Shetland, or outside of New York), if you meet a ship that looks very much like a ship you sunk a little bit earlier heading the same direction with the same speed, it's probably a ghost ship. Leave it alone.