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Old 12-24-14, 08:14 PM   #4
Pisces
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Originally Posted by Riversub View Post
Hi,

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The contacts were greater than 25km away from my position and after setting what I thought was a reasonable intercept course, I arrived only to find nothing. Realism is set to 35% and I've burned 1/3 of my fuel already.
What do you mean with a "reasonable intercept course"? How did you set it up? It's hard to give pointers if we do not know what you did. Did you realise that the unit moves away from the icon after it appeared? There is a time marker shown when you hover/click on it.

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I do use time compression a fair amount while stopping occasionally to check sonar. Could time compression be limiting my contact opportunities?
Timecompression works like the units make steps in longer strides through the world. So if you have really high time compression this may make them jump on you up close when you have your pants down, OR they simply leapfrog over your detection area while never telling they were near. (you may notice when there is a glitch in the matrix though) When you are trying to ambush traffic in a certain area I would certainly reduce your time compression.
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