Destroyers Discussion (getting rid of pin point drops)

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Originally Posted by Redwine

Provoking is needed when they are cruising above the "Speed factor" value.

If they are cruising at 24 knots, and pasive sensor has a Speed factor of 15 or 20, they do not hear you.

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you need to test in missions where the DD's are not cruising at those speeds-- ie a normal convoy escort mission--

and you need to ask the question why a DD would be cruising at high speed? if it's a hunter killer it will be relying on it's radar for initial contact--if it's a fast taskforce escort then the taskforce is relying on it's speed to keep u-boats at bay--

this is why i test in a campaign patrol-- it's a pain in the neck some-times but i get to see the results in the "wild" as it were

//this is exaclty the same method i used for testing DES-5 for SH2--

if you increase the speed factor even slightly you end up with corvettes and armed patrol escorts with top speeds lower than the maximum sensor speed- and they become uber- if you lower it you will get better results most likely-- but in order to see them you'll have to test against convoy escorts

if you test in a mission where you start susbmerged and allready near the shipping- you don't give the DD's or you self a chance to go thru the normal detection routines

a fast moving hunter killer group for example--in normal gameplay you don't know it's there untill you get a "radar signals detected" message or similar (or happen to be lucky and submerged at the time)

so it starts running it's normal detection routines etc
if you know where it is before you start the test and start submerged
then it gives results that won't be reliable in normal gameplay