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Originally Posted by BillBam
I am confused. You want realistic campaign/traffic layers but superman sonar? If memory serves me right Dick O'Kane in "Clear the Bridge" was thrilled when his patrols had one kill for every 11 days of patrol time, the best in the fleet.
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Yes basically, a way to experience the real shipping and traffic in the war without spending days of game time doing nothing. One kill in 11 days might be a great kill record, but for me in game, even taking into account time compression, that means something like one kill every 5.5 hours or so, which is just way too long a time to wait, at least for me, to shoot something.
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If I remember right traffic only spawns when it is within 40 miles of your location so 100 mile sonar would not help. You might try a later start date or with a boat that has radar to increase your detection range.
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I thought it was the other way around? Traffic only spawns when its more than 40 miles away from you so that you don't get a fleet of DD's drop on your head without warning. I may be wrong of course.
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I tried the RSRD campaign layers but found them to be a little too dry, I agree that with limited play time available it sucks to spend 2 hours a night looking for that one long merchant ship. I have run my last two campaigns with TMO and the TMO More Merchant mod that Ducimus came out with. This seems to be a perfect mix of time to target without giving the impression you are in a stock game shooting gallery.
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See the reason I really like RSRDC is because it puts things in the right place at the right time... like the Philippines invasion fleet, before I tried RSRDC, I'd patrolled that area at least 5 times without running into it, with RSRDC (not this time), I find it at least 25% of the time, if I cheat and go wait for it...
I might give the TMO route a try, but I've always had trouble with TMO when it comes to combat as I find myself getting dead a lot, even when I just fired and ran... That being said, I wonder if the increased merchants mod is compatible at all with RSRDC?