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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
Just remember that hearing their sonar pinging away says not a thing about whether they have detected you. You are MUCH more apt to be killed by overreacting to hearing pings ...
One thing you know for sure. Distance also keeps him from detecting you. Make some! If a single escort is pinging, he isn't listening. ...
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Oh man, I've learned that one the hard way - too many times. When the pings speed up and get louder is when I stop trying to hide (or when I hear an escort start a run).
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Originally Posted by Armistead
Lil more in depth.
I've always heard the same, they can only active ping or listen, not both. Doe's this mean they can only listen when stopped? Even if you can't hear it and they're always pinging, that means they can't be listening. I think many assume if they're in escort formation moving along they're listening, because you can't hear pings, but if they're always active, then they're not listening..make sense.
...The other problem is multiple escorts. One may have you in their sonar cone, thus you hear pinging, so you take off, but another may be listening...
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I read something by Ducimus (I think in the
A.I. Explained post) where he said that while an enemy escort can only be listening or pinging at any given instant, it can switch back and forth between the two states so quickly and so often that it might as well be doing both. That's always made sense to me, a hundredth of a second is a long time for a computer.
The other thing he said was that if there is more than one escort hunting you, then at least one of them is always listening.