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Old 04-20-09, 11:21 AM   #1
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he might be talking about the reported contacts and not the ones you crew detects
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Old 04-20-09, 12:01 PM   #2
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So was I. The 'Contacts' section covers 'Opportunity Contacts' and 'Important Contacts' and the like.
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Old 04-20-09, 03:57 PM   #3
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So was I. The 'Contacts' section covers 'Opportunity Contacts' and 'Important Contacts' and the like.
Yes I did mean the radio reports and their accompanied contacts on the map.
Many of them are so far away I can't reach them in any time given.
The mod I am looking for reduces the reports and their contacts on the map to those within a certain distance of your sub's position.

If I can change that range myself in the data/cfg/Contacts.cfg what values would I have to change ?

My contacts.cfg looks like this:

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[ContactSettings]
; Contact settings

Display Range To Opportunity Radio Contacts=1000 ;[>0] kilometers
Display Range To Important Radio Contacts=3500 ;[>0] kilometers
Decay Time For Important Radio Contacts=172800 ;[>0] seconds
Decay Time For Opportunity Radio Contacts=64800 ;[>0] seconds
Decay Time For Imprecise Sensor Contacts=600 ;[>0] seconds
Decay Time For Precise Sensor Contacts=60 ;[>0] seconds
Decay Time For HighPrio Radio Contacts=259200
Single Contact Min Size=1 ;[>0] minimum numbers of units in this type of group
Small Contact Min Size=2 ;[>0] minimum numbers of units in this type of group
Medium Contact Min Size=4 ;[>0] minimum numbers of units in this type of group
Large Contact Min Size=9 ;[>0] minimum numbers of units in this type of group

[ContactRange]
;under the (right) value a contact is considered as:
Short=1000 ;[m]
Medium=3000 ;[m]
Long=20000 ;[m]

[ContactSpeeds]
;less than each value means (in this order): stationary, slow, medium and fast speed ; over the last value means very fast speed
Merchant=0.1,8,12,35 ;[kts]
Warship=0.1,8,19,35 ;[kts] including uboats
Air=0.1,8,19,35 ;[kts]
Convoy=0.1,8,12,35 ;[kts]

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As far as I can tell these two lines could change the reported range ?

Display Range To Opportunity Radio Contacts=1000 ;[>0] kilometers
Display Range To Important Radio Contacts=3500 ;[>0] kilometers

But I don't know what value is the one I mean or what the "Opportunity vs Important" means and to what extend I should change it, is it measured in kilometers ?

Thanks for your replies I realy appreciate the help !!

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Old 04-20-09, 06:16 PM   #4
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Well thoes are the ones you want to change.

Oppurtunity targets are small one or two ships.

Important are convoys and taskforces.

The range reported is in Kilometers.

1 Kilometer = 0.53995680346 Nautical Miles

Now it depends how far out do you want to be notified.
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Old 04-20-09, 09:44 PM   #5
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Well thoes are the ones you want to change.

Oppurtunity targets are small one or two ships.

Important are convoys and taskforces.

The range reported is in Kilometers.

1 Kilometer = 0.53995680346 Nautical Miles

Now it depends how far out do you want to be notified.

well for those of us not in full inderstanding of a true realistic idea of whats in a reasonable range to be something you would be able to respond to?

in other words whats your max range limit you could respond to something so that we have a better idea what to set something above that.
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well for those of us not in full inderstanding of a true realistic idea of whats in a reasonable range to be something you would be able to respond to?

in other words whats your max range limit you could respond to something so that we have a better idea what to set something above that.
Well I am going to need a dart board for this one.

In response to Shadowhawk's mod he was looking for that gave as an example 200 NM. Then set them both to say 400 Kilometers. That would seem to curtail the contact reports by quite a bit.

I was thinking of doing it within the big mod I am making just to cut down on the traffic the player could attempt to intercept.
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Old 04-21-09, 09:33 AM   #7
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Well I am going to need a dart board for this one.

In response to Shadowhawk's mod he was looking for that gave as an example 200 NM. Then set them both to say 400 Kilometers. That would seem to curtail the contact reports by quite a bit.

I was thinking of doing it within the big mod I am making just to cut down on the traffic the player could attempt to intercept.

well i had in mind something like 500 km for Opportunity and 1000 km for Important but i wasnt sure if that was too little, but if you feel 400 km is ok for both then i'll have to rethink it
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