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Originally Posted by caspofungin

let's standardize our test mission, too. currently, i'm going 1 on 1 w/ a black swan, 1939 vintage, start on the surface 5000m apart, heading towards each other at 10kts. I'm not sure if being spotted on the surface improves their ability (the already tracking variable?)

Put your mission on rapidshare to test on it too, i test the files on U-505 ans Barham missions.
About to being spotet on surface, i am not sure, but almost in the files settings i am testing now, if they spot your periscope, sight or may be radar, they become incredible more agresive.

Originally Posted by CB..

here's a thought -- i wonder if it was easyier to tell the depth of a u-boat if it was deep than if it was shallow--?

I can ucerstand well, sorry my bad english.

Originally Posted by CB..

as the length of time it would take the echoe to return from depth would be longer --surely it was easyier to gauge the difference between say 100 metres and 120 metres- than it was to guage the difference between 25 metres and 50?
as the ping would come back at pretty much the same time-- this would make the heightfactor quite an interesting tactical change? i dunno

May be posible is like your explanation, a minimun distance at wich the sensor can measure the time of echo return, i was tinking it was a ceiling limit for the sensor, anyway it looks as a limitation on the sensor we can use to change DDs behavior.

Originally Posted by CB..

perhaps it might actually work a lot better if the lose time for the active and hydrophones was 1 second--forcing the DD's to constantly re-aquire the contact-
might make them behave in an interesting fashion?

It sound so interesting, may be a good key to control DDs capability, will test it.

Originally Posted by CB..

i'm wondering if with the lose time set at 20 seconds they retain contact with you even tho you are behind them and they are at 25 knots simply because the lose time dictates that they cannot lose contact untill the 20 seconds are up?
20 seconds isn't very long - but it is enough time for the DD to slow down after a dc run and get below the max speed for sensors? perhaps meaning they never lose contact at all?

If it is correct may be the key for Ubber Dds. DDs are linked to you by the program.
Did you tested lower times ?

Originally Posted by gouldjg

I feel lose time and contact time could be influenced here. I also feel that if this was done you could lenghen the sensor ranges.

The big question is just how screwed up other stuff may become.

Did SH2 DD always track for subs and SH3 does not and requires an alert status to be reached before it switched these on?

Some times looks it is true, if you remain in silent running or engine stoped, and DDs do not had spotted you before, they pass over you without know you are there under them.

Just rise up your periscope or put ahead flank by some seconds and they wake-up and start up searching for you as rabid dogs.