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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith
not sure about the first one.
Second one though is great feedback! Here's why that happened: in each 'group' of ships there is a commander. When that commander detects you he issues the tactics for the ships in his group to use. Once those tactics are set they don't end until it says so or an end is scripted into the tactic. So in your situation you were detected and the commander set the Plaster tactic. Initially they were coming to 'plaster' you but you evaded. The commander then switched the tactic to spiral seach. I have spiral search set for 60 mins. After 60mins the tactic automatically ends at which time the ships will regroup with the convoy and no tactic is set. I need to do something about this so that if you do evade and attack the convoy the commander will switch out of the spiral search tactic  |
Ahh, I don't think anyone actually detected me. I simply moved into the convoy's path and let them drive right over me. I went deep because the explosions I'd seen earlier had me thinking there might be another sub in the area that they'd be looking for. They never changed course at all though, just kept leading the convoy, even when I attacked it. A few of the escorts ran erratic patterns behind the leads, but they did that the whole time. I didn't notice a spiral pattern at all.
I think reaper's probably right about the first thing being part of the mission script, is it possible that it's affecting the AI's behavior in some way? I think I'll give it another try and see if I can't duplicate those results.