Ghost Ships

emtmedic005 · 02-21-07, 08:22 AM

So i m about 200kms from the straits of Gibraltar and i get a radio report that a task force is comming towards me at a bearing of SSE and comming fast. So i head that way. My Watch Officer reports warship spotted so we dive down to PR depth and go silent. I listen using the Hydrophones and i got nothing, not engine sounds, nothing. So i put up the Scope and take a look. Again nothing found. Now its rainning and the waves are rolling but there is good visibibliy, just a rainy, windy day, but no fog. So i surface and prepare to crash dive. I did a 360 and again saw nothing. about to kill my WO i dive down to 20meters and shut the engines off and listen with the hydrophones. I do about 5 rotations with them and nothing. I found nothing. I was pissed so i made my way home and on the way i hit a convoy with 2 Flowers and 1 DD, sunk those and headed in, i got about 5 merchants then i noticed the Fuji Cruiser and took that out. I left the Convoy (no Ammo/Torpedos), they had 4 small merchants left. So that made up for the "ghost" ships.
Does anyone else have this problem? Trying to find ships that r right near u but cant be seen or heard?
O another Plus, on return to base i was promoted to Kapitänleutnant, or Lieutenant Commander after my 7th patrol, pretty good right.

Kpt. Kozloff · 02-21-07, 08:29 AM

It happened to me with a single large cargo. I saw it in the uzo, got closer, dived to PD and put the scope up, nothing there.
I think it's some kind of a bug.

emtmedic005 · 02-21-07, 08:33 AM

Maybe the Allies finally finished the "Philadelphia Experiment" and is now using that on merchant ships. haha

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm

hyperion2206 · 02-21-07, 09:50 AM

One day I found a small convoy in stormy weather and decided to go to PD to close the distance. As soon as I went to PD I could not hear them via hydrophones. I finally found them and I solved the mystery: Because of the weather they had all stopped. The same thing might have happened to you TF.

emtmedic005 · 02-21-07, 10:02 AM

Well that would be interesting, and logical to stop enngines during a bad storm. But my father who was in the US Navy and was an Electrian's mate (PO 1st class) said that even though the ship has stopped, the engines never fully "stop", they are the ship's power source. So im wondering if the SH3 devs team thought of this. Even though the screws r not turning there should be a faint sound being made from the engines and the boilers. Anyone care to comment?

Brag · 02-21-07, 10:58 AM

I don't think the hydrophones of that era would pick up engine room noises from much of a distance.

11Bravo · 02-21-07, 11:05 AM

I am new to this game, but I had a similar experience. Made contact with a single merchant by sonar. Tracked it for ever by sonar while zigzagging across the ocean to spot it. Finally spot it and watch it for many 3:15's to get its course. Maneuver around it to avoid being spotted and get into perfect daylight attack position, submerged, 600m off its course. Wait forever for it to arrive. Shoot. Ship vanishes before torpedoes reach it.

I suspect that ships spawn and run on certain waypoints, and then eventually disappear from the game. My ship must have reached its last waypoint while the torps were heading in. At least that's what I told BDU.

High Voltage · 02-21-07, 11:12 AM

Reports out of London suggest the Tommies have finally perfected their Cloaking Device...

bigboywooly · 02-21-07, 01:25 PM

:rotfl:

Ships do disappear at last waypoints but they shouldnt disappear until very close to the shore

Hydraphones do pick up stationary ships too
Try port raiding
" Stationary contact 036 moving away "
:rotfl:

02-21-07, 08:22 AM	#1
emtmedic005 Weps Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Andover, MA Posts: 361 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Ghost Ships So i m about 200kms from the straits of Gibraltar and i get a radio report that a task force is comming towards me at a bearing of SSE and comming fast. So i head that way. My Watch Officer reports warship spotted so we dive down to PR depth and go silent. I listen using the Hydrophones and i got nothing, not engine sounds, nothing. So i put up the Scope and take a look. Again nothing found. Now its rainning and the waves are rolling but there is good visibibliy, just a rainy, windy day, but no fog. So i surface and prepare to crash dive. I did a 360 and again saw nothing. about to kill my WO i dive down to 20meters and shut the engines off and listen with the hydrophones. I do about 5 rotations with them and nothing. I found nothing. I was pissed so i made my way home and on the way i hit a convoy with 2 Flowers and 1 DD, sunk those and headed in, i got about 5 merchants then i noticed the Fuji Cruiser and took that out. I left the Convoy (no Ammo/Torpedos), they had 4 small merchants left. So that made up for the "ghost" ships. Does anyone else have this problem? Trying to find ships that r right near u but cant be seen or heard? O another Plus, on return to base i was promoted to Kapitänleutnant, or Lieutenant Commander after my 7th patrol, pretty good right.

02-21-07, 08:29 AM	#2
Kpt. Kozloff Frogman Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Jersey - Channel Islands, UK Posts: 305 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	It happened to me with a single large cargo. I saw it in the uzo, got closer, dived to PD and put the scope up, nothing there. I think it's some kind of a bug. __________________ GWX1.03/Cmdr2.7/plus all sorts of tweaks

02-21-07, 09:50 AM	#4
hyperion2206 Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cologne, Germany Posts: 1,227 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	One day I found a small convoy in stormy weather and decided to go to PD to close the distance. As soon as I went to PD I could not hear them via hydrophones. I finally found them and I solved the mystery: Because of the weather they had all stopped. The same thing might have happened to you TF. __________________ Career of Captain Jack Shaftoe:

02-21-07, 10:58 AM	#6
Brag Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Docked on a Russian pond Posts: 7,072 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I don't think the hydrophones of that era would pick up engine room noises from much of a distance. __________________ Espionage, adventure, suspense, are just a click away Click here to look inside Brag's book: Amazon.com: Kingmaker: Alexey Braguine: Books Order Kingmaker here: http://www.subsim.com/store.html For Tactics visit:http://www.freewebs.com/kielman/

02-21-07, 11:05 AM	#7
11Bravo Medic Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Error Triangle Posts: 168 Downloads: 157 Uploads: 0	I am new to this game, but I had a similar experience. Made contact with a single merchant by sonar. Tracked it for ever by sonar while zigzagging across the ocean to spot it. Finally spot it and watch it for many 3:15's to get its course. Maneuver around it to avoid being spotted and get into perfect daylight attack position, submerged, 600m off its course. Wait forever for it to arrive. Shoot. Ship vanishes before torpedoes reach it. I suspect that ships spawn and run on certain waypoints, and then eventually disappear from the game. My ship must have reached its last waypoint while the torps were heading in. At least that's what I told BDU. __________________ "Sounds of terror are in his ears; While at peace the destroyer comes upon him." -- Job 15:21

02-21-07, 08:33 AM	#3
emtmedic005 Weps Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Andover, MA Posts: 361 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Maybe the Allies finally finished the "Philadelphia Experiment" and is now using that on merchant ships. haha http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm

02-21-07, 10:02 AM	#5
emtmedic005 Weps Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Andover, MA Posts: 361 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Well that would be interesting, and logical to stop enngines during a bad storm. But my father who was in the US Navy and was an Electrian's mate (PO 1st class) said that even though the ship has stopped, the engines never fully "stop", they are the ship's power source. So im wondering if the SH3 devs team thought of this. Even though the screws r not turning there should be a faint sound being made from the engines and the boilers. Anyone care to comment?

02-21-07, 11:12 AM	#8
High Voltage Chief Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: U-33. Depth Charges...sinking.. Posts: 325 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Reports out of London suggest the Tommies have finally perfected their Cloaking Device... __________________ The new-moon night is black as ink. Off Hatteras the tankers sink. While sadly Roosevelt counts the score-- Some fifty thousand tons--by MOHR

02-21-07, 01:25 PM	#9
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	:rotfl: Ships do disappear at last waypoints but they shouldnt disappear until very close to the shore Hydraphones do pick up stationary ships too Try port raiding " Stationary contact 036 moving away " :rotfl: __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41