What TC do you guys use??

I saw this for the Devils of the Deep that their max Time Compression allowed was 128, Im just curious on what TC you all allow yourself to use as max??

And while we're at it, what other quirky odd things do you do when on patrol?? Ie. filing real hardcopy patrol reports, keeping a log, having the significant other open all windows in winter and splash ice cold salt water on you as you ride through a terrible storm!!

[JScones]

x8192. A quick game is a good game.

[Schwieger]

Originally Posted by JScones

x8192. A quick game is a good game.

Yep, you won't even know if it is a Sunderland or Catalina at x8192

[krashkart]

x128 for normal operation, and up to x1024 if I'm in a real hurry to get somewhere.

[Weisia]

x128 when on patrol
x512 when entering and exiting home harbour

[4saken]

x1 30' when exciting and entering port
x1 15'-20' before attacking
x16 when hunting a contact
x64 when patrolling

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by JScones

x8192. A quick game is a good game.

Especially when you leave from France in '43

Numerous threads on this before, but it's a tough one to search for.

If there's a decent chance of an air patrol finding me, then I will rarely go above 256 or 512. If there's a good chance (Biscay, Gibraltar, Near the Isles at all), I don't go above 128.

Problem is, if you go above 128, as has been mentioned before, the computer takes 1 tick to react to the warning, and the time elapsed is huge in that 1 tick. At 512, thats almost 8 minutes game time your behind. If that's a plane your spotting 8 minutes to, he's probably well into a bombing run, if he hasn't already done one. The math may be off some, but the concept is sound.

If I'm going on a long distance cruise in the middle of nowhere, then higher TC is ok IMO. Going from Europe to the Caribbean is a looooong and boring journey at 128, so I will crank it up into the 1k, 2k range for those trips, sometimes even faster.

If you use SHC, you can adjust what TC the game drops down to when an enemy is detected, I just leave mine at the 1/8 for planes/ships.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

Especially when you leave from France in '43

Numerous threads on this before, but it's a tough one to search for.

If there's a decent chance of an air patrol finding me, then I will rarely go above 256 or 512. If there's a good chance (Biscay, Gibraltar, Near the Isles at all), I don't go above 128.

Problem is, if you go above 128, as has been mentioned before, the computer takes 1 tick to react to the warning, and the time elapsed is huge in that 1 tick. At 512, thats almost 8 minutes game time your behind. If that's a plane your spotting 8 minutes to, he's probably well into a bombing run, if he hasn't already done one. The math may be off some, but the concept is sound.

If I'm going on a long distance cruise in the middle of nowhere, then higher TC is ok IMO. Going from Europe to the Caribbean is a looooong and boring journey at 128, so I will crank it up into the 1k, 2k range for those trips, sometimes even faster.

If you use SHC, you can adjust what TC the game drops down to when an enemy is detected, I just leave mine at the 1/8 for planes/ships.

As above but another reason for not exceeding x128 if possible is because it is strongly suspected that some air units don't get launched and or rendered by what is now quite an old game engine.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

As above but another reason for not exceeding x128 if possible is because it is strongly suspected that some air units don't get launched and or rendered by what is now quite an old game engine.

Only more reason to get the SDK,, if that has anything to do with the game engine, but either way the SDK would make things like hiding on the bottome possible. thanks Ubi for being uptight d-bags

[Kip Chiakopf]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

As above but another reason for not exceeding x128 if possible is because it is strongly suspected that some air units don't get launched and or rendered by what is now quite an old game engine.

I didn't know that about the air unit glitch. Is there any more information on that?

[Paulski]

I've set the max at 32, but am thinking of setting the max at 64 or even 128.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by JScones

x8192. A quick game is a good game.

My computer won't run it above 1024, and that barely. When I'm in a patrol grid I might go to 512. In possible air patrol areas, as others have stated, 128. Near land it stutters badly if I go above 64.

In harbor, real time.

[Kapt Z]

Usually in the x128-x256 range.