[TEC] Thermal Layers (how things work)

[Ducimus]

Just FYI, here's the summation of the changes i made to TMaru to the stock AI where underwater detection is concerned. These are the changes ive been using, up until this point:

sim.cfg
Hydrophone-> Noisefactor from 1.0 to 0.4
Hydrophone-> Thermal Layer Attun from 3.0 to 2.0

Sonar->Enemy Surface Factor from 200 to 150
Sonar-> Thermal Layer attuen from 5.0 to 4.0


AI sensors.dat
Type93-1A -> MaxRange from 1000 to 1200

Type93-1A ->MaxElevation from 100 to 106
Type93-3A ->MaxElevation from 100 to 112
Type93-5A ->MaxElevation from 100 to 118

Depthcharge.zon ->MaxRadius from 40 to 14.5
Deptcharge.sim-> DepthPercision from 5 to 17
Deptcharge.sim-> Explosion_range from 40 to 50

Now, ive just made some adjustments to that, and the first test run looked promising, here is what ill most likely run with soon, although i wonder if its a TINY bit much, not sure. more testing is needed:

sim.cfg
Hydrophone-> Noisefactor remains at 0.4
Hydrophone-> Thermal Layer Attun remains at 2.0

Sonar->Enemy Surface Factor remains at 150
Sonar-> Thermal Layer attuen from 4.0 to 3.0

AI sensors.dat
Type93-1A -> MaxRange remains at 1200

Type93-1A ->MaxElevation from 106 to 108
Type93-3A ->MaxElevation from 112 to 114
Type93-5A ->MaxElevation from 118 to 120

Depthcharge.zon ->MaxRadius from 14.5 to 20 (untested)
Deptcharge.sim-> DepthPercision from 17 to 10 (untested)
Deptcharge.sim-> Explosion_range from 50 to 55 (untested, not that it matters much)

If i still can't illicit a good response from the AI, next on my list is to lower the sonar surface factor in the sim.cfg from 150 to 125, and retest from there, but i dont think it will be neccessary.

One thing i havent done, is extend the maximum range of the active sonar. Doing so, will make convoys really hard (or rather harder) to approach.


edit: explosion range going back down to 50, subs starting to accelerate in speed, which isnt any good.

Sonar thermal layer attuen, i might bring that back up to 4.

With the new settings ive quoted above, i think i got my accuracy back, and im getting more pinging. I think either the min elevation adjustment was all taht was neccesary, or thermal layer.. im skeptical if both were needed.

Try it out, tell me what you think.