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Originally Posted by TorpX
How about this: Instead of--
small freighter.......8 kts cruising speed
...........................10 kts max speed
It sees your torpedos and rings up max speed, but due to constant helming actually slows down to 5 kts........silly and pointless........
Have it this way--
small freighter.......8 kts cruising speed
...........................16 kts max speed
It sees your torpedos and rings up max speed, it still uses constant helming but only slows down to 11 kts........not so bad........
Is this possible?
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To my knowledge the speed evasive ships take are coded. The behavior I'm talking about is not dodging torps, but the small legs they go into when they know you're there. I can get spotted on purpose from long distance and the group goes into the automatic evasive helming always slowing down. SUre you mean the same thing, but this zigging isn't to avoid actual torps as much they know you're around. Most ships if possible will take hard turns to avoid torps. Evading torps ships will speed up or slow down depending on how they can best avoid it.
What's silly is this slow down helming, the zig pattern has hardly any effect on course and doesn't throw your shot off much. Be nice if they would at least stay in a zig leg for a mile or so. In some groups when you attack the convoy will break up, head off in different directions which speeds being everywhere, this is good behavior, just not enough of it. Eventually the group comes back together.
To my knowledge only one speed can be set and the makeup of a group can only go as fast as it's slowest ship...BUT..somewhere code dictates, seems groups will only slow down so much and often will leave a damaged ship behind, then again sometimes the group slows down to the damaged ships speed and remains with it. I attacked Kurita's Center Force and had a Kongo and CA slowed, Kongo could only make 12 kts, the main group left him never slowing down from 22kts. Attacked another TF later and damaged a carrier, entire group slowed from 17 to 7kts, best speed of carrier.