Watch not seeing ships!

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Originally Posted by jason10mm

In my younger dumber days several patrols before the one I'm on now (I figure a new captain gets pretty salty after 10 patrols I tried to infiltrate a convoy in heavy fog. Ships would be 300 meters away and I could not see them. Not just Coastal Merchants, mind you, but C2s and T2s! I could have fired blindly on a bearing, but I kept trying to get a visual and nearly got rammed several tiimes and never got off a shot. After that I stopped convoy hunting in the fog!

I wonder if a successful hit could have triggered panic zig-zags in the ships, leading to lots of collisions?

No, the ships magically know where they are in relation to one another. Additionally, ship collision is rather difficult the way they have the engine setup. Huge ships can stop on a dime and reverse course rather easily. It looks like they bent the laws of physics to address ships constantly crashing into on another whether there's fog or not.