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Originally Posted by gouldjg
CB, When you got your results with hydro, what ranges were set in the sensors and also what range was you detected at max.
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what i found was i could increase the max range of the hydrophones
to any amount what so-ever
i went right out to 40,000 metres max range--
and this actually did nothing absolutely nothing--nada lol!
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i really wonder somewhat whether changes to the AI_sensor.dat actually have any effect at all---or are so influenced by other factors that the end result can be the same--
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the most powerfull method of control hydrophone range is via the noise and waves factor
the noise factor is a consitent figure -- the waves factor obviuosly changes according to the weather-- flat calm gives longer effective hydrophone ranges than stormy etc--
removing the noise and waves factor gives the longest hydrophone range of all (from Col's discovery)
try this
set the noise and waves factor to zero
run a test - note your detection ranges approximaitlley
then remove the entrys altogether
and run the test--note the ranges
the most powerfull message from Col's discovery that the game doesn't need the sim.cfg entrys to run - is that some where there are a set of "game default" settings for the sensors---
i need to say extremely loudly here
I HAVE NEVER EVER EXPERIENCED A PIN POINT DC DROP FROM ANY DD THAT COULDN'T BE EXPLAINED BY PURE BAD LUCK-- OR ME "WALKING INTO IT"
the reason i say that so "loudly" (and my apologies for doing so) is that it happens so rarely as to be quite spooky to wonder what the odds are that at least every now and again a DD would by the law of averages land one smack on the nose-- yet it allmost never happens--
you see for me and the other folks whose DD's are primarily useless 90% of the time--it isn't going to make any difference at all if the min height is this or the max range is that or the angle of the other is anything at all--the DD's are useless!!!
and so far the only fix for this-- that consistently works time after time-- is Col's find regarding the sim.cfg--ie removing some of the hydrophone entrys completely and using those ones you don't remove intelligently to
balance the results out "to taste" as it were--
folks keep asking me to test this and that on the basis that their DD's are uber-- and they want to stop the pin point drops---
there's no point asking me!!!
as stock my DD's are blind as a bat---you feel honoured if they drop dc's at all LOL--never mind if they drop one in the same hemisphere as you!!!
one or two other folks are in the same situation---
Col's work seems to solve this problem at least to my satisfaction ( and i am a fussy b*gger on the QT)
we have TWO problems whe viewed as a whole
some folks have
useless DD syndrome--
others have
uber DD syndrome--
what solves one will just make the other worse---
what the heck am i going on about lol---
i 'm going for a bit of a lie down--