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Dissaray · 01-08-10, 05:17 AM

The stealth meter was a little confusing for me at first too. But then someone explained it real well for me, or someone elce I don't recall; a fat lot of good it did me to seeing as I tured it off shortly after I figured out what it dose and how to interpert it

. The meter isn't an indication of weather or not you have been detected but rather an indication of how detectable you are at that moment.

Take for example what you said earlyer: You were siting full stop just off the botom riged for silent runing and the meter was green as would be expected beacouse it is hard to find a silent boat down there visualy or audably. Now it turned red when the enemy started to ping you; this is to be expected beacouse now you are reflecting the sound of the ping for the enemy to hear making you more detectable. Just beacouse the meter is red dosen't mean that they have found you only that if they point their hydrophones in your direction they are very likely to find you; even having the enemy pinging you is no gaurantee that they have found you, if I had a nickle for every time I was pinged and not found... Well I don't know how many nickles I would have but it would be a lot of them.

The only real way to know the enemy has found you when you are submerged is when a depth charge bounces off your hull or detonates realy close to you. Though I supose you could also use hydraphone readings to figure their search patern and see if it bisects you, but the depth charge meathod is way more fun.

Same goes for the surface in terms of the meter. It can be green even though it is a cleer sunny day but there is no one around beacouse the distance from you to the nearest ship is so great that there is zero chance that they will see you.

01-08-10, 05:17 AM	#30
Dissaray 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 280 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	The stealth meter was a little confusing for me at first too. But then someone explained it real well for me, or someone elce I don't recall; a fat lot of good it did me to seeing as I tured it off shortly after I figured out what it dose and how to interpert it . The meter isn't an indication of weather or not you have been detected but rather an indication of how detectable you are at that moment. Take for example what you said earlyer: You were siting full stop just off the botom riged for silent runing and the meter was green as would be expected beacouse it is hard to find a silent boat down there visualy or audably. Now it turned red when the enemy started to ping you; this is to be expected beacouse now you are reflecting the sound of the ping for the enemy to hear making you more detectable. Just beacouse the meter is red dosen't mean that they have found you only that if they point their hydrophones in your direction they are very likely to find you; even having the enemy pinging you is no gaurantee that they have found you, if I had a nickle for every time I was pinged and not found... Well I don't know how many nickles I would have but it would be a lot of them. The only real way to know the enemy has found you when you are submerged is when a depth charge bounces off your hull or detonates realy close to you. Though I supose you could also use hydraphone readings to figure their search patern and see if it bisects you, but the depth charge meathod is way more fun. Same goes for the surface in terms of the meter. It can be green even though it is a cleer sunny day but there is no one around beacouse the distance from you to the nearest ship is so great that there is zero chance that they will see you.