i hope you all know this about spawning things

i just realized that part of the reason one of my mod sections was not working was because timed spawning of ships and planes (i guess cause i only tested ships) only happens when you can't see it. i created a spawning point that would kick out BBs every hour and sat there by it and nothing happened. So i moved away for a few hours and came back and there they were a pile of ships heading for their last waypoint death of oblivion. It was night and as long as i stayed away from the spawn point - ships kept coming. Next morning with a slight haze they still kept coming. But when i moved over to the spawn point - they ceases as soon as it came clearly in view. so i moved away towards night and - poof, back the ships came. i suppose this explains why when ever i would move my sub near plane spawning points near Dunkirk i would not see planes.

So this explains to me why when i played IuB and used its amazing 16000 kazilion visual range, why i kept complaining: "where's the ships?" i'd see them during bad weather or night, but few during the day.