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Originally Posted by Ducimus
I have always wondered if this is modeled in game. I have often pinged escorts for range and they never seem wise to it.
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It is. I learned the hard way. Even asking your hydrophone man for an approximate range to target is the same in game-world as pinging him. I didn't touch my first career in the stock game for about 4 months because I couldn't get past a particular convoy. I'd sneak up to hide in their path in complete silence. The escorts were completely unaware. I'd ask the hydrophone man for an approximate range and instantly, the escorts would start pinging. I knew that asking for precise range resulted in a ping, so I'd been careful not to do it; it was only after reading a post here that I discovered "approximate" range was the same thing, only with less accurate results. I refrained the next time, and it worked beautifully; a perfect attack after countless failures. Now, in my GW career, I may not even
get active sonar. I might just spend those renown points on something more useful. If you used active sonar later in the war with no repercussions, you were very lucky.