(TEC) making your soundman more talkative

[Bilge_Rat]

I have been trying to get my soundman to report contacts more frequently. It appears that in the stock game, the soundman will only report contacts once every 60 seconds.

looking in the "contacts.cfg", I found these two lines:

Decay Time For Imprecise Sensor Contacts=600 ;[>0] seconds
Decay Time For Precise Sensor Contacts=60 ;[>0] seconds

Lowering the line for "precise" contacts to, say 15 seconds, appears to result in the soundman reporting contacts more frequently.
Lowering the line for "imprecise" contatcs to, say 60 seconds, also appears to result in the soundman reporting new contacts, although testing is very limited so far.

Does anyone know what these two lines represent or what they do? I searched the forums, but did not find any info on this.