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Old 03-09-08, 01:05 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by P_Funk
This is one of the most frustrating stock limitations... I've always wanted that one changed. Fact is that you can't even get closest merchant! Just closest ship or warship... what if they're one in the same!

This game is about 2 patches from being perfect (as a base for other mega community mods :p ).
The more I think about it the more I think it's realistic just as it is. I mean, you could tell him to track the nearest (loudest) ship, or you could tell him to track the nearest warship, because you'd want to know if it was attacking, but how would you tell him to follow the biggest target? Or the third-nearest ship?

I suppose if you looked through the periscope you could tell him to follow the contact currently on bearing 324, but even then if it's a convoy he could easily get the one on 325 and neither of you would ever know the difference.
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