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Found the merchant using sonar, but it was impossible to determine range as the ship was rocking so bad the merchant was jumping off the bottom and the top
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Just keep in mind that TMO uses a mod called SCAF. Short for Ship Centered Accuracy Fix if i remember correctly. (RR will never forgive me for this, and its too late in the game to pull it out of the mod) What it does, is it changes the aiming point on the stadimeter. Top of mast, top of funnel, etc. The aiming point is annotated in the rec manual for each ship. So as long as you remember to refer to the recognition manual, you should have even greater precision in your range calculations then before.
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My main problem being planed that detect me 40m under the sea
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Yeah that is one of the more errr.. lauded aspects of TMO, and it is by design. The premise being that the waters in the pacific are much clearer, thereby making it relatively easy to spot submerged objects from the air. Also keeps you on your toes. If your cruising under water near the surface, extend your SD radar mast, and your periscope so you have both radar and visual sensory at work for you.
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, the watch spotting 4 ships in harbor (My watch spotted them, I could not til I was roughly 2000 meters away as it was just before dawn and insanely dark)
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Thank you! You see, ive fixed this in the next TMO update (currently known as the 1.8 beta), and i got a few complaints about it and i cited pretty much what you just did, and nobody had any idea what i was talking about.
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I barely had time to flip open the book before I realized that one of the gunboats was heading right at me. I couldn't see two feet in front of my face but this skipper had spotted me from about 8000m off.
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Some of the smaller craft that patrol harbors has some pretty good passive sonar. Some merchants also have some basic passive sonar (not all, just a few). In general, you have to be really mindful of your noise when above the thermal layer. When below the thermal layer, you can be more lax in your sound discipline.
As an aside, some of your fish had a premature explosion due to the magnetic pistol. The rougher the seas, the greater the chance the fish will premature before it reaches the target.