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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
Okay, let's first look at what the TDC does when the position keeper is on. What it's really doing is setting up an artificial target. When you shoot, you are not shooting at that ship out there, you are shooting at the TDC's artificial target. You WILL hit the artificial target. But, because it really doesn't exist you don't get booms! That is, unless there is a REAL target occupying the same spot where the artificial target is hit.
Our job is to make the artificial target move at the same speed and course as the real target and be superimposed exactly on top of the real target. Kapeech? Ever thought of it that way?
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This artificial target vs real target way of thinking is exactly how I think of it. It becomes painfully clear that this is the way it should be thought of when you look at the attack map. It's best feature IMO is that it shows you the actual target along with marking the artificial target.
Thanks for that RR. It makes total sense to me to start the PK right off the bat. Also Razark nailed it with how he does the AOB. Just match it up to the target course. We don't actually give a crap about what the AOB is in and of itself, that was just the way target course information happens to be fed into the TDC.
Time to go out there and
SINK EM ALL
