Quote:
Originally Posted by fastfed
...
I can do the three minute mark with my sonar guy, but thats not always doable in every situation (When a merchant pops up out of no where you have no time) ...
|
You are missing the point. If you track it's position, then you can find out where it is going in the future. Then you have the advantage of dictating the place where he is attacked. You don't have to fire the torpedoes immediately!
If a merchant is popping up out of nowhere then you should reduce your time compression to give your crew a better reaction time. (But in the RFB manual they describe also a weird detection bug depending on horizon lattitude or something)
Quote:
...
Then speed thing.. if I wait another minute or so and check range again, it will give me my speed right.. But even then, it shows sometimes being wayyyyy off.
it seems I could do range and speed calculations and get different results each time.
...
|
How long are the times between the range/bearing measurements? If you have trouble getting an accurate range, and only let the target move a few degrees in bearing in your persicope, then the target course and speed calculation will be inaccurate. It's not because you are doing it the wrong way. You are likely feeding it data that cannot be trusted. If you locked the periscope on the target, then only range is the untrusty one. Give the target more time to move around you, as time will average out the error.