Stupid Noob Tricks

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by peabody

I guess that's probably cheating?

No way, that's not cheating. It's about the only way you can get all the information - a bit like with the radar not showing range. It's a bit unfortunate that the sonar range lines on the map are super accurate, but there's no other way to get updates without manning the sonar yourself all the time.

There would normally be two guys manning the sonar stack, one would sweep around see what was happening to make sure there were no surprise visitors during an attack and the second would be handed off contacts to track.

It would be really nice if the sonar man was a bit more helpful, if the game had two and one announced changes in the general ships, like, warship speeding up bearing blah blah blah, instead of just being able to track one target. It would also help if the sonar man could track a specific target and not just the nearest merchant of warship, which is limitting. I would really like to try to build a mental image of what was happening above, using only what the sonar guy said, but alas that's not possible.