Does slowing down improve ship spottings?

kanolsen · 02-09-07, 11:58 AM

I play GWX. I usually play with 1024x speed when travelling to and from assigned grid.
I usually stumble upon a ship or two on the way. I think I have read somewhere that you get often ship spottings if you reduce the speed setting. Last night I tried to slow it to 128x and I spotted one ship. (I know this isn't empirically solid evidence..)

I also tried to go to 25m and hydrophone often but so far I have never detected a ship this way that hasn't already been sighted by the crew beforehand.

Is it just a myth that the sightings improve by lowering speed. You developers probably know the answer to this one...

Thanks in advance
Kanolsen

02-09-07, 11:58 AM	#1
kanolsen A-ganger Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 71 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Does slowing down improve ship spottings? I play GWX. I usually play with 1024x speed when travelling to and from assigned grid. I usually stumble upon a ship or two on the way. I think I have read somewhere that you get often ship spottings if you reduce the speed setting. Last night I tried to slow it to 128x and I spotted one ship. (I know this isn't empirically solid evidence..) I also tried to go to 25m and hydrophone often but so far I have never detected a ship this way that hasn't already been sighted by the crew beforehand. Is it just a myth that the sightings improve by lowering speed. You developers probably know the answer to this one... Thanks in advance Kanolsen