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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
But with merchants it doesn't matter. They don't know you're pinging. That's historically accurate too.  |
That's the info I was looking for!
I know they dit not have "active intercept" tech, but lets especulate on this a little bit. When we (subs) are submerged, we can hear pings clearly. There is NO WAY a merchant crewmen could hear a ping as well? I'm not talking game-wise anymore, just exchanging ideas.
The sound travels best in water, sure, but the reason we hear a ping when submerged is that the sub is very silent, and we are surrounded all around by water. It would be my guess that, in a noisy ship, and with surface noices (wind, waves etc) interacting with all other sounds, the ping would have to be pretty damn strong for you to hear it...