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Originally Posted by Markus Witt
But I have no idea why both attacks gave such different responses by the merchants. The first response was ridiculous and gave me no chance whatsoever.
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Luck factor I'd guess.
What happens when your torpedoes go off is all nearby ships instantly change their crew state from "Cruise" to "Alert", increasing their ability to detect you - so even if you were quite safe a second before, now you might end up in their "detection range". Then there's the luck factor: being inside detection range doesn't mean instant detection, it means they get random time in which they will spot your boat. It may be a second, or it may be enough for you to move out of dangerous spot. And at night, then there's spotlights (haven't looked into how they work but I guess being in spotlight drastically cuts down on time they need to detect you - and since they scan with those spotlights randomly, there's again a random chance that they just happen to point it in right direction and see you instantly).