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Old 05-28-20, 06:44 PM   #1134
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FotRSU has the "reporting" of Convoys "restricted", not as many reports as stock, but more than TMO. We also restricted the Status Report mileage, such that you aren't sent to the other end of the Pacific for a mission as before. As for "breaking" the traffic, what can and does happen is if you get in too close while on the surface or PD or above, the RGG cannot spawn in that area. But only in that area. In other words, anywhere in the world that your submarine is located with a human possibly on the bridge or periscope, no RGG (Random Generated Groups) can spawn, and "Scripted" group cannot appear either. You would see them suddenly appear "out of nowhere" and start shooting at you if they did. The ones in existence when you enter the game stay. If you do certain of the War Patrols in the Aleutians, you might notice a couple of fleet boats coming in to Dutch Harbor as you are getting ready to leave, and then right before your very eyes, they "disappear", in spite of have several more waypoints yet to reach... but they are within the "termination range", so they up and disappear on you. As soon as you leave though, RGG and scripted units can go back to spawning. This would be roughly 24nm away from you, just beyond what the horizon can show at 20nm... or is it km?... hmmm - now I ~know~ I'm gettin' old... Ahh Magoo, you've done it again!...

Now, along with the above, if you have ever encountered a Task Force, with anything that carries airplanes, or even a "convoy" with an escort carrier or cruiser with float planes - if your submarine is detected, the group is on the "alert" - of course they are... but say they have spotted your periscope, and you see that they are sending some DE your way to start dropping whoop on you, so you go deep, change course and speed up for a while, then go silent and change course again. You avoid the DE with aplomb. You are good at this. Now secure in your stealth and knowing that you now have this group in your grasp, you come up toward periscope depth... well, long about 75-80 feet, you start getting depth-charged... What in the world? It's airplanes! That shtinking plane-carrying so-and-so has spawned airplanes when you were deep! So be aware of that! If you so much as go below periscope depth, they can and do spawn airplanes at the outer edge of their spawn limit, just beyond your "reach"... We saw this in testing multiple times. Very cool stuff.
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