I do not understand this sim ..

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

the only reason the DCs have pinpoint accuracy is because I gave them that accuracy. I set the depth precision to 2.5m. Why did I do this? Because the game gives no way to change that (or many other items) based on year.

I humbly, and respectfully submit to you an abstraction: That being an increased (wider) depth precision is plausible, because it is (as far as i know) impossible to limit the maximum depth on depth charges. Early war depth charges were shallow, late war deep, game uses same setting regardless.

Of course there are other ways to limit how accurate the AI is in its depth charge placement. Another method may be to lessen the max elevation of the sonar in use. The shallower the downward angle, the less accurate they become. of course, too shallow of a downward angle, and they won't be able to detect the player as the player is effectively under the sonar cone. Which is the case in stock SH4. Max angle on Jap sensors was 100 degrees. I forget what the first two active sonars is for the allies, but i don't think it was more then 120 (off the top of my head), i know the later war active sonars is sporting a 155 degree down angle.

it has occurred to me that there is a way to change accuracy via year. I would have to make new guns and just setup the controllers differently. Ah but we can't do that yet as we are unable to clone or import .GR2 files. So we're left at the current compromise for now

Try a normal dat file? Maybe it will work. It's my understanding that SH5 will accept dat files for some things, though i don't know if it will render correctly.