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jasondef · 01-23-06, 07:37 PM

Well, I had to this happen to me only a couple of times and so far I've done about 9 missions in my campaign. I've had mostly success with my stopwatch not stopping too soon, scoring torpedo hits along with the usual dud rate here and there, but there was like two times when I fired a torpedo then switched to a different screen for a half minute or so for a couple of commands and adjustments, then switched back to my periscope screen only to see the stopwatch dead and the torpedo running in the water that I had just fired icon in the upper left corner of the screen was gone, when there should've been a good minute left or so before torpedo impact. This bewildered me at first, but I chalked it up to just being a dud and the torpedo crapped out before it could make the full run to the target. However, the only two times it happened was when I switched the screen and then switched it back, 2 times out of many times when I often switch screens and switch back, and its never happened when I've just stayed on the periscope screen for the entire run of the torpedo, and I thought it was just a coincidence that I happened to switch screens on just those two particular torpedoes. But hearing that it happened to you too right when you switched screens makes me think its maybe more than just a coincidence, maybe some small bug? I am running with the latest 1.4v update. So all I can say is that its only happened to me with two torpedoes over 9 missions, and I haven't had to worry about it since then so far, so just play through it and maybe it'll go away like it did for me! That's the best I can tell you. OK, so there you go some real feedback on your question.

On a related note, at this date in time, you're now buried a few pages into the forums database, and increasingly I think newer people to the forum, like myself, don't have the patience or the need to dig that deep and far into the database to come across your post. I'm a little dissapointed with subsim's format here, for both the forum and the mods, as there seems to be no way to search for keywords, and there's know way to organize the mods by date, popularity, keywords etc. I've been on a lot of other mod databases for other games, and they are much better organized with crossreference organizing of topics, dates, # of downloads/replies, popularity, etc. It just seems to be organized according to when the mod/post is submitted and that's it, making it much more painstakingly time consuming to find exactly what you want. Am I the only one who feels this way?

01-23-06, 07:37 PM	#15
jasondef Weps Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 358 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Well, I had to this happen to me only a couple of times and so far I've done about 9 missions in my campaign. I've had mostly success with my stopwatch not stopping too soon, scoring torpedo hits along with the usual dud rate here and there, but there was like two times when I fired a torpedo then switched to a different screen for a half minute or so for a couple of commands and adjustments, then switched back to my periscope screen only to see the stopwatch dead and the torpedo running in the water that I had just fired icon in the upper left corner of the screen was gone, when there should've been a good minute left or so before torpedo impact. This bewildered me at first, but I chalked it up to just being a dud and the torpedo crapped out before it could make the full run to the target. However, the only two times it happened was when I switched the screen and then switched it back, 2 times out of many times when I often switch screens and switch back, and its never happened when I've just stayed on the periscope screen for the entire run of the torpedo, and I thought it was just a coincidence that I happened to switch screens on just those two particular torpedoes. But hearing that it happened to you too right when you switched screens makes me think its maybe more than just a coincidence, maybe some small bug? I am running with the latest 1.4v update. So all I can say is that its only happened to me with two torpedoes over 9 missions, and I haven't had to worry about it since then so far, so just play through it and maybe it'll go away like it did for me! That's the best I can tell you. OK, so there you go some real feedback on your question. On a related note, at this date in time, you're now buried a few pages into the forums database, and increasingly I think newer people to the forum, like myself, don't have the patience or the need to dig that deep and far into the database to come across your post. I'm a little dissapointed with subsim's format here, for both the forum and the mods, as there seems to be no way to search for keywords, and there's know way to organize the mods by date, popularity, keywords etc. I've been on a lot of other mod databases for other games, and they are much better organized with crossreference organizing of topics, dates, # of downloads/replies, popularity, etc. It just seems to be organized according to when the mod/post is submitted and that's it, making it much more painstakingly time consuming to find exactly what you want. Am I the only one who feels this way?