DEMON - Page 2

Three14 · 01-22-06, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by goldorak

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Originally Posted by Three14

Wow...the simplest of questions has become incredibly esoteric!
Interesting answers.

However, in DW I also understood that, under perfect conditions a 4 bladed prop will show as 5 lines in DEMON (in the game). The first line is the shaft. This is different from what is stated in the second post (4 bladed prop will show 4 lines -- the first line is both the shaft AND the first blade). I remember this being true in earlier games, but it's been a long while since I checked.

However, it WAS true that fainter(?) contacts were more likely to display fewer prop lines in DEMON. So, a sub in which you expected to see 7 lines might first appear as 3 or 4 lines until it closed.

Things may be different, but I believe this is the question being posed about DW in original post.

No actually in DW there is a discrepancy between what the manual says and what you observe on the demon station.
For instance for a n bladed contact according to the manual you should have n+1 lines in the demon station (first one for the shaft, and the other n lines for the blades) whereas in game you observe only n lines in total.

BAM! Thanks, that's what I think the original question was.

A typo on my part up above, actually. I haven't much time in DW (only the demo), but I remember reading that in SC -- whether I verified it or not is something else. Possibly I didn't, because I'm guessing that the same discrepancy existed in SC as well.