on the hydrophone ranges i allready tried setting all the sensors to a mxmum range of 40,000 metres a little time ago and it didn't make a jot of difference---perhaps marknimov said about not keeping a back up the files in the same folder is right (sounds wierd but it may a some sort of anti-cheat thing intended to stop tweaking for multi-player games?)
im experimenting with adding some entrys to the sim.cfg in attempt to calm down the extreme uber effect of removing the hydrophone section from the sim.cfg
i just tried this
[Hydrophone]
Sensitivity=0.03 ;(0..1)
Height factor=0 ;[m]
same as col said really got detect an insane distance away and was attacked non stop for over a hour--- the DD's were interesting to watch tho--- i stayed in the control room most of the time to absorb the gameplay a bit and try to enjoy myself for a while--
after a while of non stop but not deadly DC attacks
i had a check via the external camera and blow me if the original two DD's were gone and a lone corvette had taken over the job without me noticing lol!!! that kept going untill it ran out of DC's (it just stopped dropping them but carried on making runs over me anyway---)
so i must have lost the first two DD's (?) and got detected by the corvette unless the DD's really do take shifts?
was in a bad situation any way because the first dc attack nearly blew the sern of the boat and destroyed both rudders -so all i could do was go deep and slow - (i couldn't steer the boat)
i abandoned the mission eventually because the corvette was showing no signs of getting bored or of finding any more DC's to drop LOL!! there's only so much of that you can take without going mad
strangest thing was immediately after each and every DC drop i got the we have been detected message suggesting that just fro a second the DC's actually did block out the sensors but only for one or two seconds--
i'm hoping adding other entrys to hydrophone section one by one might slowly bring the DD's back into a reasonable level of competence--
so i'm going to try this next
[Hydrophone]
Detection time=60 ;[s]
Sensitivity=0.03 ;(0..1)
Height factor=0 ;[m]