Can the WO's Range Report Accuracy be Tweaked?

panthercules · 10-26-06, 06:58 PM

In a thread on the general forum about plotting using a "maneuvering board" approach, the concept of possibly being able to change the accuracy of the WO's range reports came up - I thought maybe this should be the subject of a post over here in the mod forum - see the copy of the posting below: (from the following thread - http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...d=1#post334367 )

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Originally Posted by Dantenoc
If NYGM 2.2. thought that this was way to precise, then it should have changed this to a margin error of plus or minus 200 meters or more

Is this actually possible? I haven't loaded up NYGM 2.2 yet (still out on patrol with my old GW 1.0+ install), so I hadn't realized that they eliminated the ability to ask your WO for the range. I have thought (as they apparently did) that it was kinda silly that the WO could seem to give rather precise ranges of ships 10,000m+ way, so I have basically been using the WO's responses to let me know if the target was closing or receding (which I figured that he should be able to tell, whether or not his range numbers were actually correct). It didn't occur to me that there might be a "margin of error" parameter at work in the stock game that might be able to be modded to give a more realistic role for the WO's range reports.

Does anybody know if there is such a parameter and whether you can tweak it?

10-26-06, 06:58 PM	#1
panthercules The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,336 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Can the WO's Range Report Accuracy be Tweaked? In a thread on the general forum about plotting using a "maneuvering board" approach, the concept of possibly being able to change the accuracy of the WO's range reports came up - I thought maybe this should be the subject of a post over here in the mod forum - see the copy of the posting below: (from the following thread - http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...d=1#post334367 ) Quote: Originally Posted by Dantenoc If NYGM 2.2. thought that this was way to precise, then it should have changed this to a margin error of plus or minus 200 meters or more Is this actually possible? I haven't loaded up NYGM 2.2 yet (still out on patrol with my old GW 1.0+ install), so I hadn't realized that they eliminated the ability to ask your WO for the range. I have thought (as they apparently did) that it was kinda silly that the WO could seem to give rather precise ranges of ships 10,000m+ way, so I have basically been using the WO's responses to let me know if the target was closing or receding (which I figured that he should be able to tell, whether or not his range numbers were actually correct). It didn't occur to me that there might be a "margin of error" parameter at work in the stock game that might be able to be modded to give a more realistic role for the WO's range reports. Does anybody know if there is such a parameter and whether you can tweak it? __________________