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Stymnus · 08-09-05, 09:42 PM

If you go a certain distance away (16km sound right to folks?) any damaged ship will repair itself and scoot off to who knows where.

Though I do not agree, you do not get credit for any sinking ships you are not there to see. You also get no assumed kills, which I find troublesome because in the war, even severely damaging a small ship was considered a kill because it was considered they'd not be able to get back to port. What do you suppose they did with ships that had their propellers shot off? Tugged each and every one back to port, from the middle of the Atlantic?

Whether you consider it a bug or a design choice is up to the beholder, but I actually consider it the latter...else they'd have to keep track of sinking ships all over the map, and collisions thereof, which would likely slow down your game -- instead of just recording what should be happening within the 'bubble' around your sub.

08-09-05, 09:42 PM	#8
Stymnus A-ganger Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Wilton, NH Posts: 72 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	But, to answer... If you go a certain distance away (16km sound right to folks?) any damaged ship will repair itself and scoot off to who knows where. Though I do not agree, you do not get credit for any sinking ships you are not there to see. You also get no assumed kills, which I find troublesome because in the war, even severely damaging a small ship was considered a kill because it was considered they'd not be able to get back to port. What do you suppose they did with ships that had their propellers shot off? Tugged each and every one back to port, from the middle of the Atlantic? Whether you consider it a bug or a design choice is up to the beholder, but I actually consider it the latter...else they'd have to keep track of sinking ships all over the map, and collisions thereof, which would likely slow down your game -- instead of just recording what should be happening within the 'bubble' around your sub.