Reporting life rafts??

Waterboy · 03-25-07, 06:07 PM

I've sank a few ships and afterwards the deck crew starts reporting "ship spotted, bearing XXX". They are calling out the life rafts. Unless we can capture them, I don't see the point. For fun, I tried to blow the rafts out of the water with the deck gun.

(Yeah, I know it's a war crime)

Anyone else find this annoying?

AirborneTD · 03-25-07, 06:11 PM

I find that annoying and also when pilots ditch (from parachutes) you get the same or similiar results.

DaMaGe007 · 03-25-07, 06:17 PM

I think the icons are the same aswell on the world map.
Would be nice if the pilots and rafts were a different icon.
When you zoom right in they are.

Charos · 03-25-07, 06:25 PM

Not only do they call "Ship Spotted" for a life boat. BUT Your sonar guy picks up upturned life boats as slow merchants. (These are row boats BTW)

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The life rafts actually drift. That part I like.

Teh_Diplomat · 03-25-07, 06:53 PM

Can you ram the rafts/lifeboats?:hmm:

Lawndart · 03-25-07, 07:33 PM

I hate to say this but I used to be on the NOT shooting life rafts banwaggon but something changed when I started playing this game...

My Grandfather served in WW2 in the pacific and saw a lot of action. This Christmas my mom sent me his service watch that he engraved all the islands he went to on a steel cuff type band... Anyway, when a plane or ship was shooting at me and I deal with them something personal happens to me, and I "finish" the job, for my gamps...

But never merchants. I guess I know a thing or two you won't be seeing on the history channel any time soon...

Thank god I don't feel that way in the real world

03-25-07, 06:07 PM	#1
Waterboy Watch Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 24 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Reporting life rafts?? I've sank a few ships and afterwards the deck crew starts reporting "ship spotted, bearing XXX". They are calling out the life rafts. Unless we can capture them, I don't see the point. For fun, I tried to blow the rafts out of the water with the deck gun. (Yeah, I know it's a war crime) Anyone else find this annoying?

03-25-07, 06:11 PM	#2
AirborneTD Engineer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 204 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	I find that annoying and also when pilots ditch (from parachutes) you get the same or similiar results. __________________ "You know, you might get surrounded." "We're paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded." --Band of Brothers

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03-25-07, 06:17 PM	#3
DaMaGe007 Watch Officer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 338 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I think the icons are the same aswell on the world map. Would be nice if the pilots and rafts were a different icon. When you zoom right in they are.

03-25-07, 06:25 PM	#4
Charos Helmsman Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 109 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Not only do they call "Ship Spotted" for a life boat. BUT Your sonar guy picks up upturned life boats as slow merchants. (These are row boats BTW) . The life rafts actually drift. That part I like.

03-25-07, 06:53 PM	#5
Teh_Diplomat Helmsman Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Moncton, Canada Posts: 105 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Can you ram the rafts/lifeboats?:hmm:

03-25-07, 07:33 PM	#6
Lawndart Bosun Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Vancouver BC Posts: 66 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I hate to say this but I used to be on the NOT shooting life rafts banwaggon but something changed when I started playing this game... My Grandfather served in WW2 in the pacific and saw a lot of action. This Christmas my mom sent me his service watch that he engraved all the islands he went to on a steel cuff type band... Anyway, when a plane or ship was shooting at me and I deal with them something personal happens to me, and I "finish" the job, for my gamps... But never merchants. I guess I know a thing or two you won't be seeing on the history channel any time soon... Thank god I don't feel that way in the real world