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Originally Posted by Barkerov
Yeah I repaired all damage. Im glad its a feature, I will be sure to rtb if that happens again.
I have to say though that 200ft to see a sub from the air seems excessive but I would much more easily believe that than bomb damage at that depth from a surface detonation. 40ft sure but 200ft I would need proof to believe that.
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I've seen photos. Sometimes a sub at 200' is very visible from straight above. Sometimes it isn't.
What you're experiencing is the fruit of the old Submarine Sim Central forum where SH4 modders used to conspire, cooperate and squabble among themselves. These particular products of vile conspiracy are "Duci's Evil Airplanes."
Basically Ducimus woke up in the middle of the night screaming from a nightmare, wrote it down, and when he woke up he built it. These airplanes can see you under water, usually only to a depth of just below periscope depth. If you're at 90' you are virtually safe--we haven't lost any subs cruising at 90' for the past week or so.
My stragegy in TMO (same planes if you're not using RSRDC and the same goes for RFB. If you use RSRDC you are no longer playing TMO or RFB, you are playing RSRDC) was to use 90' as default depth for moving from position to position if airplanes are above, radar depth otherwise unless within 3000 yards of a target. Tracking planes while attacking becomes as important as tracking your target.
I was crash test dummy for the "Duci's Evil Planes" feature.......ummmm bug......er player torture scheme. I loved it so much he kept it and the RFB team asked if they could incorporate it.
If you're running RSRDC, which nerfed the evil airplanes and want them back, I have a plugin module,
RSRD Restore Duci's Evil Airplanes, which will torture you and then you can hate me and Duci all over again. It will also add the evil airplanes to stock game, GFO or FOTRS without changing other aspects of the game.
Webster, I read, thought deeply and adopted some of your principles from before you produced GFO! And I believe that although there is a place for supermods, there is also a place for COMPATIBLE modules that plug into all game configurations, changing ONLY the aspect that people want, without redefining all other aspects of the game that people might not want to change. Swappable modules makes it possible to configure the game the way YOU want, not the supermodder. I believe RSRDC is one of the great tragedies of SH4 because most of what it does, it does in secret, without your consent and without the supermodders of GFO, TMO and RFB's consent.
TMO plus RSRDC is NOT TMO. Stock plus RSRDC is NOT stock. GFO plus RSRDC is NOT GFO. RFB plus RSRDC is NOT RFB. That's just wrong.
I keep getting ideas for mods. How about "Nerf Duci's Evil Airplanes" for those who don't want to bother with them?
@DrBeast: VERY interestingly the dds files were not missing. Evidently, lurker produced the stock/GFO version after he produced the RFB version. The RFB version of nav map tracking was to replace all the shp.dds files with blank graphics, making the target visible until you zoomed in far enough that the square/velocity vector was replace by the ship silhouette, whereupon the target vanished entirely from the plot. (Thus the R for "real" in Real Fleet Boat. Didn't real plotters remove targets from the plot when they walked closer to the chart table?) These blank shp.dds files were left in the stock/GFO version of RSRDC for the Momi Patrol Boat and destroyer escort Matsu (at least--I'm still checking for more bugs). I have a mod in the download area,
Momi Class Patrol Boat/NDE Matsu fix for RSRDC_SH1 , which restores plotting to those two targets. I think I've talked myself into major RSRDC surgery and release of two mods representing the separate Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde parts of the mod. That way there wouldn't have to be separate mods for different supermod configurations on just the campaign part, I think.
And on a personal note I'm happy to see you still using the Leovampire memorial banner. He deserves it.