TMO or RSRD, what controls Patrol Zones?

Ducimus · 10-13-10, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Armistead

I think TMO adds or rescripts most of the missions, if running RSRD over TMO, doe's this effect TMO missions?
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Yup. RSRD does its own missions. It's pretty much a completely different game i think.

Armistead · 10-13-10, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

Yup. RSRD does its own missions. It's pretty much a completely different game i think.

but what about the average patrol zone, these could be numerous, so just wondering if the stock game is actually in charge of the average patrol.

One thing that I've noticed doing patrol zones is if you hang around for 2-3 days longer after the stat grays out, something nice often comes through.

Diopos · 10-13-10, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Armistead

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One thing that I've noticed doing patrol zones is if you hang around for 2-3 days longer after the stat greys out, something nice often comes through.

That, or simply moving to the nearest "logical" spot (shipping lane, "straits", major ports/bases,etc). I must admit that although patrol zones not always conform to what I perceive as "logical",they are not located "in the middle of nowhere" ...mostly at the "edge" of nowhere, bordering to the limit of "something"! :•)

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NorthBeach · 10-13-10, 08:13 PM

I'm not a huge proponent of zooming off to where the pinheads send me. But, I go, on occasion. I've always suspected that RSRD scripts the missions as some sort of stress test, e.g., SE of Formosa. You know the entrance to The Strait is right over there. It's just outside of radar range. And, you know that there are targets happily coming and going as they please. You can even, at times, hear them if you wander down to sonar. So there I sit, a half a mile from the edge of the patrol zone. Foot on the clutch and engines at redline. Waiting for that damn icon to go gray...

tater · 10-13-10, 08:25 PM

Patrols are entirely set by the campaign in rsrdc.

Armistead · 10-13-10, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by tater

Patrols are entirely set by the campaign in rsrdc.

Can you explain more? When you say entirely, are the patrol area's scripted by RSRD or just some vague parameters generated by code that decides where you go? You could ask numerous patrol zones per patrol, resulting in hundreds of patrol zones, can't believe someone would script each patrol zone. I always thought the code generated the patrol zones why RSRD rescripted the special missions.

Some of the patrol zones do send you to invasion points or battles, but just very few. So many can't find invasion forces or battles with RSRD because the patrol zones seldom send you there, why I figured the game code generated patrol zones.

Hope I'm making sense what I'm asking.

tater · 10-14-10, 12:32 AM

Patrols are EXPLICITLY set. Nothing campaign wise is "hidden" in the non-moddable code.

UPC stuff sets where subs are based.

The patrol objectives are inside Campaigns/Campaign and set every, single patrol objective is there. 286 of them in RSRDC.

They are called based on various parameters. Starting location of sub---and date, current position, etc.

What do you mean? Why doesn't RSRDC put you in the middle of every battle? Some patrols likely do, but there are nearly 300 patrols. Otherwise, how many RL subs were in the middle of major naval engagements? Some were sent for screening missions.

10-13-10, 08:13 PM	#4
NorthBeach Torpedoman Join Date: May 2008 Location: San Francisco Posts: 112 Downloads: 216 Uploads: 0	I'm not a huge proponent of zooming off to where the pinheads send me. But, I go, on occasion. I've always suspected that RSRD scripts the missions as some sort of stress test, e.g., SE of Formosa. You know the entrance to The Strait is right over there. It's just outside of radar range. And, you know that there are targets happily coming and going as they please. You can even, at times, hear them if you wander down to sonar. So there I sit, a half a mile from the edge of the patrol zone. Foot on the clutch and engines at redline. Waiting for that damn icon to go gray...

10-13-10, 08:25 PM	#5
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Patrols are entirely set by the campaign in rsrdc.

10-14-10, 12:32 AM	#7
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Patrols are EXPLICITLY set. Nothing campaign wise is "hidden" in the non-moddable code. UPC stuff sets where subs are based. The patrol objectives are inside Campaigns/Campaign and set every, single patrol objective is there. 286 of them in RSRDC. They are called based on various parameters. Starting location of sub---and date, current position, etc. What do you mean? Why doesn't RSRDC put you in the middle of every battle? Some patrols likely do, but there are nearly 300 patrols. Otherwise, how many RL subs were in the middle of major naval engagements? Some were sent for screening missions.