Questions for anyone on dev team or beta team (merged)

jeff lackey · 03-19-07, 10:52 AM

OK, so now I KNOW I need the manual! I must be doing something completely wrong.

While the intro says that if you're based at Pearl, you'll be patrolling that general area (Midway, Wake, etc.) But my first mission is to go all the way to Honshu and patrol there. OK, in my Porpoise I barely have the fuel to get there and back, but OK. But for the entire patrol, I didn't get a single sound contact from my sonar. Even when I'd get close to a ship I saw visually, I'd go down and slow, no contacts. I did get radar contacts, even though my sub has no surface radar on it (and I'm using realistic sensors.)

So - this is how I know I'm just doing something wrong, and need to get the manual to figure out what stupid thing I'm doing/not doing: I submerge in Pearl Harbor, surrounded by ships. Still - no sound contacts. So if someone has the manual, while I wait for the dev team to ship me one for my review, could you please tell me what stupid thing I'm doing wrong? There isn't much need in my continuing to play for the review until I have something this basic figured out.

Really, for those worried about "This idiot is going to review this for a major magazine" - I'm normally not this dense! LOL! and I am a HARDCORE simmer from way back. Which is why I know this has to be my error and not the program.

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03-19-07, 10:52 AM	#17
jeff lackey A-ganger Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 78 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	OK, so now I KNOW I need the manual! I must be doing something completely wrong. While the intro says that if you're based at Pearl, you'll be patrolling that general area (Midway, Wake, etc.) But my first mission is to go all the way to Honshu and patrol there. OK, in my Porpoise I barely have the fuel to get there and back, but OK. But for the entire patrol, I didn't get a single sound contact from my sonar. Even when I'd get close to a ship I saw visually, I'd go down and slow, no contacts. I did get radar contacts, even though my sub has no surface radar on it (and I'm using realistic sensors.) So - this is how I know I'm just doing something wrong, and need to get the manual to figure out what stupid thing I'm doing/not doing: I submerge in Pearl Harbor, surrounded by ships. Still - no sound contacts. So if someone has the manual, while I wait for the dev team to ship me one for my review, could you please tell me what stupid thing I'm doing wrong? There isn't much need in my continuing to play for the review until I have something this basic figured out. Really, for those worried about "This idiot is going to review this for a major magazine" - I'm normally not this dense! LOL! and I am a HARDCORE simmer from way back. Which is why I know this has to be my error and not the program.