Does slowing down improve ship spottings?

[kanolsen]

I play GWX. I usually play with 1024x speed when travelling to and from assigned grid.
I usually stumble upon a ship or two on the way. I think I have read somewhere that you get often ship spottings if you reduce the speed setting. Last night I tried to slow it to 128x and I spotted one ship. (I know this isn't empirically solid evidence..)

I also tried to go to 25m and hydrophone often but so far I have never detected a ship this way that hasn't already been sighted by the crew beforehand.

Is it just a myth that the sightings improve by lowering speed. You developers probably know the answer to this one...

Thanks in advance
Kanolsen

[danlisa]

Short answer = yes

You miss so much at 1024 esp. aircraft.

128 is your best best, not too fast, not too slow.

Also make stops for hydrophone readings.

Just bear in mind that any TC reduces the chances of your watch crew spotting any contact.

[Sailor Steve]

Yes. Very high time compression reduced the chance of ship and especially plane spottings. Apparently the program checks at certain time intervals, and not constantly. This makes it possible for targets to slip "between the cracks".

[codmander]

1X RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brag]

Frequent diving to listen will improve your ship contacts. In my present patrol I found 4 out of 5 ships via hydrophone. Sometimes I'll sit for days submerged, moving at 1 knot and surface only to refresh the atmosphere. In a good part of the ocean this tactic works well.

[Morts]

Originally Posted by codmander

1X RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you are........INSANE:rotfl:

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by codmander

1X RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Must be a fisherman or something:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I certainly wish I had to the time to play 1X!!!!!

[codmander]

arr shiver me timbers
http://home.comcast.net/~codmander ------------ tuna soona

[AVGWarhawk]

I had seen your webpage before that is how I had known you do that for a living:rotfl::rotfl:

[codmander]

well reserve your spot for tuna i garentee we catch a fish bigger than you mid late june early july ish

[Heibges]

Totally false.

In endless travels across the Bay of Biscay have never seen any difference playing at any time compression.

Countless times at X1024 or x512 was attacked by aircraft 1 to 10 minutes after I surfaced for nearly 2 days. My batteries were nearly fully depleted by the time I reached the Atlantic.

Playing at x1 you will notice that depending on the visibility, enemy ships will move by you without spotting you at very close range. At night in medium fog, with 11ms winds I have had an Allied Escort cross my bow at 450m and I just sat there and watched.

Also playing at x1 you will notice that aircraft do not always attack you.

But also, there are times you just see nothing the whole patrol.

If you are at time compression, and you are not spotted, you will TC through the encounter though.

[Iron Budokan]

Yes, you can miss a ton (literally) at high TC. I just finished a 1x patrol to the western approaches from Kiel in '39. I was empty of torps before I never made it to my patrol zone. Now you don't have to do 1x, but if you slow down you will have more contacts...that's a guarantee.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Heibges

Totally false.

In endless travels across the Bay of Biscay have never seen any difference playing at any time compression.

Not totally false. As danlisa and Sailor Steve said, the game checks at intervals as to what is around you. This isn't subjective and based on observations, it's pure game mechanics. See this post for the full explanation: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...10&postcount=6

[fredbass]

The thing that worries me the most with using TC higher than 256 are the times when the game doesn't notice the enemy until they're right on top of you. Lower TC will give you some extra distance normally.

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by kanolsen

I play GWX. I usually play with 1024x speed when travelling to and from assigned grid.
I usually stumble upon a ship or two on the way. I think I have read somewhere that you get often ship spottings if you reduce the speed setting. Last night I tried to slow it to 128x and I spotted one ship. (I know this isn't empirically solid evidence..)

I also tried to go to 25m and hydrophone often but so far I have never detected a ship this way that hasn't already been sighted by the crew beforehand.

Is it just a myth that the sightings improve by lowering speed. You developers probably know the answer to this one...

Thanks in advance
Kanolsen

When you use hydrophone, go around 20m deep, stop engines and use good hearphones. This is how I find a good 2/3 of my targets... even experienced, sonarman misses a lot.
When I am in a target zone, I usually do it every 3 hours.