AI sonar effectiveness

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

I believe there are no false echoes in SH4. If you are not presently detected, escorts circle the point of last contact. If contact is not reacquired in 30 minutes they leave and resume escort duties..

I was afraid of that.

I've stripped entire convoys of their merchies that way and left the escorts to just steam away because they have no one to escort.

He he, sounds good.

I am reminded though, of a situation the happened to O'Kane, where he sank all the merchents in a small convoy and was left with the sole escort DD. He considered that it was more dangerous, now that it was alone, and had no sheep to shepard, if you get my drift. It could devote it's full attention to exacting revenge for the losses.

I think that DD search patterns change a lot between different mods. I've seen them chase you for hours in some ocasions, they won't necessarily drop you after 30 minutes without a contact.

Probably there are a lot of varaibles here. Are there enough DDs to spare the chase as the others remain with the convoy? Are there not? Is he getting signals from you every now and then, or have you disapeared completely? I think different situations will cause different DD behaviour.

This is what I don't get. Duci's DD's in TMO are famous for being tough, but unless I misinterpreted what he posted, all escort behavior is hardcoded and unchangable, apart from crew ratings. He also implied that much of this (in the game) is oversimplified.