making the Seawolf silent speed of 25 knots and doubling the Kilo endurance

[LoBlo]

Originally Posted by tippership

Reading this, I still am not sure how to make sure the virginias aren't quieter than the seawolves, because these 1 on 1 fights don't include a lot of running around at top speed, - the passive sonar is what is confusing me. If you add base noise + speed noise, the virginias are indeed louder than the seawolves- but that passive Sonar level thing from the object dialog menu.....???????

So you will have to decide what "quieter" means. You can give the SW and the Virginia the same passive/base noise level which will make them equally quiet at stop.

Then you will have to calculate the amount of noise added per knot from the thrust menu for the SW (or Virginia, whichever you decide to use as your standard) and decide the value of the "speed noise" in the other boat's thrust menu that will grant the same amount of noise/knot.

They will then have equal noise emissions at each speed, with the caveat that since the SW is faster, as it passes the Virginia's max speed it will then exceed the Virginia's noise levels.

Another approach is to make each boat the same noise at each's respective top speed, but the result will be that the SW will also be quieter than the Virginia at any equal speed.

Hope that makes sense.

LB