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Observer · 08-08-05, 04:32 PM

You should be getting convoy reports with RUb 1.43, but not single merchant reports. You may see the drop to 8x like you would for a single contact report, but you won't see the ship icon. This is a limitation of SHIII.

The problem with RUb 1.42 was that contact ID would be lost if you lose sight of the contact for an instant such as waves over the periscope. This is fixed in RUb 1.43, but the consequence is the loss of single ship traffic on the map. there is no way I know of to work around this and still have the mod function the same way. Sorry.

If you're not getting convoys on the map, then there's a real problem.

You can avoid getting the 8x slow down in TC by changing the "Display Range To Opportunity Radio Contacts" line in the contacts.cfg to something like 20 km. In this case when you get the slowdown in TC you'll be able to dive to PD or 25 meters and hear the contact. If this is used with the mod enabling visibility >8 km, you might even be able to visually spot the contact.

One last point. Getting single ship contact reports out to 300 km is not historically accurate, so while people may like the contact reports, RUb is about realism, and single ship contacts reports are not historical. Also, the version of improved convoys in RUb 1.43 increases single ship traffic early in the war, so even without single ship contact reports, the ocean won't feel quite as empty as it might have before.

08-08-05, 04:32 PM	#11
Observer Commander Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 477 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	You should be getting convoy reports with RUb 1.43, but not single merchant reports. You may see the drop to 8x like you would for a single contact report, but you won't see the ship icon. This is a limitation of SHIII. The problem with RUb 1.42 was that contact ID would be lost if you lose sight of the contact for an instant such as waves over the periscope. This is fixed in RUb 1.43, but the consequence is the loss of single ship traffic on the map. there is no way I know of to work around this and still have the mod function the same way. Sorry. If you're not getting convoys on the map, then there's a real problem. You can avoid getting the 8x slow down in TC by changing the "Display Range To Opportunity Radio Contacts" line in the contacts.cfg to something like 20 km. In this case when you get the slowdown in TC you'll be able to dive to PD or 25 meters and hear the contact. If this is used with the mod enabling visibility >8 km, you might even be able to visually spot the contact. One last point. Getting single ship contact reports out to 300 km is not historically accurate, so while people may like the contact reports, RUb is about realism, and single ship contacts reports are not historical. Also, the version of improved convoys in RUb 1.43 increases single ship traffic early in the war, so even without single ship contact reports, the ocean won't feel quite as empty as it might have before.