Merchant behavior

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by Fifi

Is there a way to make merchants accelerate instead of slowing down when attacked?
Is it hard coded?
In real life, wouldn’t they accelerate, trying to escape?
That always puzzled me.

Yeah, just as it has about torps dudding out & exploding well short of target.. yet, merchie's keep right on plodding along as if there isn't a care in the world or that a torp just exploded off their port/starboard bow...

Do love how they will semi scatter about, yet.. as you pointed out, seem to do so at a snails pace... with every once in a blue moon, you may get 1 or 2, in a major convoy, that will seem to go to almost star trek/star wars light speed in the blink of an eye... though. Not often enough & in some cases too ludicrously fast.

M. M.