[Gate420]

You use it like this manually like some say or have your sonar guy follow the warship or closest target once he is targeted on to the sound now you can have him ping it then get the distance has nothing to do with the scopes you can do this from deep water to find exact distance and choose when to go to scope depth and you can also use it at scope depth but the sonar guy has to be locked on to what ever boat you choose.So you click the sonarman then you click hydrophone then you click follow nearest sound merchant or warship then that is what targets the boat for using the sonar after he is locked on the sound you click the sonar button under the sonarman and tell him to ping for either distance est. or exact distance and he will then tell you.Hope this helps took me awhile to figure that out I kept getting the no target selected no matter what I did until trying the follow sound thing. Thats gotta be it but why you have to manually do the first ping is beyond me I don't believe it is supposed to work that way but here's what happened after the sonarman finally called the ship a merchant I pressed H went to the degree he last called then on that notepad it had merchant so I pressed the Sende button beside the big wheel got the distance then I asked him to do it and he can do it on his own now there must be a bug but in any case there you have it now you should be able to ping distance now as well.


PS I had it working like this a little while ago but know it seems untill I use the hydrophone manually and then hit the sende button the sonarman won't ping it anymore on his own I am playing version 1.4 I think that it is bugged and needs an update or something if anyone knows a fix please let me know unless it has to do with perhaps the identity of the boat sometimes like the boat I have in sound range right now the hydrophone isn't letting me give it a type and the sonarman isn't giving the sound a type either so perhaps you can only sonar when the sonarman has a sound lock and also has identified it.