Real Time Spotting/Hydrophone Detection

crocodile · 12-20-10, 10:02 AM

Hi everybody. I ve been playing this game for a while, since 2006 then stopped and recently re installed. I play Vanilla 1.4 or GWX 3.0 Gold.
I like it but sometimes I feel a bit frustrated by one aspect: I actually never spot ships convoys or planes myself. It's always the Crew doing so while I get around at 128 or 256 X time acceleration.
I usually leave my base and head for the patrol grid where I patrol then back home or somewhere else but the point is since the area is so wide and the U Boot moves so slow as in real time, I need to speed up to 128 or 256 to get things not to last ages. (been told than more than 256 X time accel is bad for game dynamics).
And so I never manage to spot the ships myself or to spot a plane because most of the time I'm navigating or patrolling in accelerated time.
Is the same for you right? I mean if you get back to 1X normal time at a random point you can look at the sky and sea or listen to the Hydrophone for a couple of minutes in search for contacts or visual spottings but after these couple of minutes you must be back to accelerated time right? Otherwise it will last hours of nothing happening and that would be boring....
I also tried to switch back to normal 1X time when I found I was on a route where usually convoys pass but after few minutes I didn't see anything and so went back to 128X and after 40 secs of real life the crew detected a plane or a ship. So the point is, especially when navigating away from the coast, I'm always there with time very fast accelerated and crew spotting things for me, and sometimes badly or too late.
Is it the same for you or you like to play many many minutes or even Hours in normal 1X listening to the Hydrophone or searching sky and sea by yourself?
Or you do like me and act when your crew inform that a plane or a ship are near the U-Boot?

12-20-10, 10:02 AM	#1
crocodile Watch Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Italy Posts: 23 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	Real Time Spotting/Hydrophone Detection Hi everybody. I ve been playing this game for a while, since 2006 then stopped and recently re installed. I play Vanilla 1.4 or GWX 3.0 Gold. I like it but sometimes I feel a bit frustrated by one aspect: I actually never spot ships convoys or planes myself. It's always the Crew doing so while I get around at 128 or 256 X time acceleration. I usually leave my base and head for the patrol grid where I patrol then back home or somewhere else but the point is since the area is so wide and the U Boot moves so slow as in real time, I need to speed up to 128 or 256 to get things not to last ages. (been told than more than 256 X time accel is bad for game dynamics). And so I never manage to spot the ships myself or to spot a plane because most of the time I'm navigating or patrolling in accelerated time. Is the same for you right? I mean if you get back to 1X normal time at a random point you can look at the sky and sea or listen to the Hydrophone for a couple of minutes in search for contacts or visual spottings but after these couple of minutes you must be back to accelerated time right? Otherwise it will last hours of nothing happening and that would be boring.... I also tried to switch back to normal 1X time when I found I was on a route where usually convoys pass but after few minutes I didn't see anything and so went back to 128X and after 40 secs of real life the crew detected a plane or a ship. So the point is, especially when navigating away from the coast, I'm always there with time very fast accelerated and crew spotting things for me, and sometimes badly or too late. Is it the same for you or you like to play many many minutes or even Hours in normal 1X listening to the Hydrophone or searching sky and sea by yourself? Or you do like me and act when your crew inform that a plane or a ship are near the U-Boot?