Destroyers Discussion (getting rid of pin point drops)

Ducimus · 12-01-05, 04:46 PM

I think i may be on the cusp of something and i wish i could try it out right now, but can't.

Unless someone has evidence to the contrary, i think max hydrophone ranges are *almost* irrelevant.

Let me give you a little metahphore here if thats the word for it.
I dont care how good your hearing is, when you put in a set of ear plugs and ear muffs over that, your not going to hear much.

The earplugs and earmuffs to which i refer are wave factor and noise factor.

We know this much, zeroing out the noise factor and wave factor, a 1940 DD can hear a dolphin fart in the indian ocean from the bay of biscay.

I ran into this once and i need to reproduce it:
Noise factor at 1, wave factor at 0, at silent speed, DD can heard me at a close range radius (with2K i think) regardless of what i do. (almost as if the noise factor was 0 when close )

I ran into this once, and thought "well thats no good" and immediatly put the wave factor back in. IN hindsight i think that WAS good.

My thought now is this:
Use noisefactor 1, wave factor 0.
Find the edge of the detection radius. If its consitant, lower the noise factor to see if you can enlarge this radius. If you can get this radius to a favorable size, THEN add the wave factor in, and start adjusting it to taste.

Now IF this works, heres the thing.
Need a standard DD to adjust too. You can dial in your test DD perfectly but you'll still have dumb and uber DDs. Can we mod all DD's to use the same equipment?

Doing that, i think you can mod the sim.cfg to adjust the hydrophones under ideal conditions. Infact under ideal conditions i think you should uberize the DD, to account for the constant crappy weather conditions in campign. Near perfect hydrone conditions are rare.

12-01-05, 04:46 PM	#11
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	I think i may be on the cusp of something and i wish i could try it out right now, but can't. Unless someone has evidence to the contrary, i think max hydrophone ranges are almost irrelevant. Let me give you a little metahphore here if thats the word for it. I dont care how good your hearing is, when you put in a set of ear plugs and ear muffs over that, your not going to hear much. The earplugs and earmuffs to which i refer are wave factor and noise factor. We know this much, zeroing out the noise factor and wave factor, a 1940 DD can hear a dolphin fart in the indian ocean from the bay of biscay. I ran into this once and i need to reproduce it: Noise factor at 1, wave factor at 0, at silent speed, DD can heard me at a close range radius (with2K i think) regardless of what i do. (almost as if the noise factor was 0 when close ) I ran into this once, and thought "well thats no good" and immediatly put the wave factor back in. IN hindsight i think that WAS good. My thought now is this: Use noisefactor 1, wave factor 0. Find the edge of the detection radius. If its consitant, lower the noise factor to see if you can enlarge this radius. If you can get this radius to a favorable size, THEN add the wave factor in, and start adjusting it to taste. Now IF this works, heres the thing. Need a standard DD to adjust too. You can dial in your test DD perfectly but you'll still have dumb and uber DDs. Can we mod all DD's to use the same equipment? Doing that, i think you can mod the sim.cfg to adjust the hydrophones under ideal conditions. Infact under ideal conditions i think you should uberize the DD, to account for the constant crappy weather conditions in campign. Near perfect hydrone conditions are rare.