No map contacts

AVGWarhawk · 04-09-07, 08:42 PM

I have no map contacts checked. I patrolled over three hours and only turned up the ghost frigate. Just where are all the ships everyone claims there is an abundance of?

Camaero · 04-09-07, 08:43 PM

All in my game!

CCIP · 04-09-07, 08:44 PM

In the shipping lanes!

I can't recall when I last played with map updates on. Must've been SHIII with patch 1.3 when I had to have them to replace the 'expired' sonarman.

When you get enough time on this thing, I swear: you really don't need auto map updates.

Oh, and they don't do anything to either traffic or, for that matter, radio-reported distant contacts on the map.

AVGWarhawk · 04-10-07, 10:37 AM

Here is the thing CC, I clicked on VERY HARD and checked all the boxes with exception of outside views. Since then I can sail for day and find nothing. I'm just wondering how VERY HARD changes the game play.....

Chrall · 04-10-07, 11:10 AM

I've had one patrol like that. Playing at 100%. I was patroling Solomon Sea and couldn't find anything. It got more and more frustrating, and for over three months at sea I couldn't find a single contact. I thught for sure that it must have been some mod I've installed but in my next patrol everything where back to normal, I even sank my first Aircraft carrier.

Ps. If you have radar installed make sure you check if it's on once in a while. High waves will turn it off, especially in small S-boats.

AVGWarhawk · 04-10-07, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Chrall

I've had one patrol like that. Playing at 100%. I was patroling Solomon Sea and couldn't find anything. It got more and more frustrating, and for over three months at sea I couldn't find a single contact. I thught for sure that it must have been some mod I've installed but in my next patrol everything where back to normal, I even sank my first Aircraft carrier.

Ps. If you have radar installed make sure you check if it's on once in a while. High waves will turn it off, especially in small S-boats.

It is very strange. Thanks for the tip on the radar! I'm starting a fresh patrol tonight out of PH. I usually us Manila. Start year will be 42. I want to see how many contact I get. Now mind you, the closer I got to Formosa I did get contacts and it should be this way as I'm closing in on Japan. Unfortunate my last night contact was the ghost frigate.

Bum · 04-10-07, 11:49 AM

Is the range in the TDC in YARDS? And how many YARDs in a nautical mile, that's what the chart is measured in, right?

I'm trying to practice this with no map updates, but I think there's a conversion I am missing.

Avatar · 04-10-07, 11:51 AM

~2000 yds=1nm
rough guess but good enough to shoot.

04-09-07, 08:42 PM	#1
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	No map contacts I have no map contacts checked. I patrolled over three hours and only turned up the ghost frigate. Just where are all the ships everyone claims there is an abundance of? __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

04-09-07, 08:43 PM	#2
Camaero The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA, Massachusetts Posts: 1,477 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	All in my game! __________________

04-09-07, 08:44 PM	#3
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	In the shipping lanes! I can't recall when I last played with map updates on. Must've been SHIII with patch 1.3 when I had to have them to replace the 'expired' sonarman. When you get enough time on this thing, I swear: you really don't need auto map updates. Oh, and they don't do anything to either traffic or, for that matter, radio-reported distant contacts on the map. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

04-10-07, 10:37 AM	#4
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Here is the thing CC, I clicked on VERY HARD and checked all the boxes with exception of outside views. Since then I can sail for day and find nothing. I'm just wondering how VERY HARD changes the game play..... __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

04-10-07, 11:10 AM	#5
Chrall Sailor man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 46 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	I've had one patrol like that. Playing at 100%. I was patroling Solomon Sea and couldn't find anything. It got more and more frustrating, and for over three months at sea I couldn't find a single contact. I thught for sure that it must have been some mod I've installed but in my next patrol everything where back to normal, I even sank my first Aircraft carrier. Ps. If you have radar installed make sure you check if it's on once in a while. High waves will turn it off, especially in small S-boats.

04-10-07, 11:49 AM	#7
Bum Gunner Join Date: May 2006 Location: Death Valley Posts: 97 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Is the range in the TDC in YARDS? And how many YARDs in a nautical mile, that's what the chart is measured in, right? I'm trying to practice this with no map updates, but I think there's a conversion I am missing.

04-10-07, 11:51 AM	#8
Avatar Commodore Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Way out there Posts: 603 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	~2000 yds=1nm rough guess but good enough to shoot.