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Duc, you off your meds again.
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My shrink say's i'm doing much better now.
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They do seem to have a predetermined depth, whatever you sub is at.
I always wondered when and how charges blow.
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How the AI works is this:
Once you've met all the criteria for its sensor to detect you, it really does know, exactly where your at, so long as you are within its sensor. The AI routine set's the depth charge to explode where it's detected you. ( This is the hardcoded part )
In reality, the depth charge handles the rest. How accurate or inaccurate the depth charge is, depends on a variable within the depth charge object called "Depth Precision" The vanilla value is 5, and this means the depth charge will randomly explode plus or minus 5 meters of the depth the AI routine set the charge. This means that if your detected at 100 meters, the depth charge will randomly explode from 95 meters to 105 meters. The larger number on depth percesion, the sloppier he gets. Unfortunately you can't go whole hog on making it sloppy because too high a number and you risk having Tin cans that blow their own tails off because the charges exploded right under them.
The only way you can limit the depth of depth charging, is to limit the sensors themselves. At that point, every evasion is childs play. Just dive to a depth you learned the AI can't ping you at, go to silent running, mash the TC key and he goes away, having never posed a threat to you at any time once you got to depth. Yaawn o rama.
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dude... im not trying to bitch at you - sorry if it came across that way, I dont know how you think i started the post bitching at you when i never once "called you out" personally by name
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Your first paragraph i felt a bit pointed to me, so I interpreted it as the start of a polite rant. Probably because i'm painfully aware of the problem. I don't like to be reminded of it. And the thing about TMO is, a whine, bitch, moan, or rant at TMO, really is a whine, bitch, moan, or rant directed at me, since i'm the one who's been building/managing it all this time. I had some great help with some parts of it, but the majority of TMO, was me flying solo. Some days my skin is thicker then others. Either way, i've spent (wasted?) far too much of my personal time on it.