What's the deal with radio messages?

Akela · 10-31-10, 02:26 AM

Hi,

Okay, here's something I haven't been able to figure out. I like to sit at P-depth on high TC until I see something however it seems like every 30 minutes or so I get some message or other on the radio that causes my TC to drop to 1. I find it a little annoying because the messages don't seem to be relevant but yet it stops the TC.

Am I missing the point here? The messages are usually something like "Sunk a trawler, took crew on board" and then an hour later, "dropped crew at Starbucks for coffee". Those seem to be obvious color but sometimes they say stuff like "Convoy at lat XX long YY". This seems like it might be important (if it's real) but I don't have any way of converting lat/long into a location on the map. Is this message real? If I did figure out where it was on the map and headed over there, would I find a convoy?

Lastly, occasionally I'll get a message that looks like it's completely real. This has happened only once, actually, where I got a long message telling me to sink just about anything I come across that doesn't speak German.

So I guess my question is; should I be paying any attention to these at all? And if not then is there a way to stop them from dropping my TC to 1?

all answers are appreciated, thanks.

10-31-10, 02:26 AM	#1
Akela Sailor man Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 49 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	What's the deal with radio messages? Hi, Okay, here's something I haven't been able to figure out. I like to sit at P-depth on high TC until I see something however it seems like every 30 minutes or so I get some message or other on the radio that causes my TC to drop to 1. I find it a little annoying because the messages don't seem to be relevant but yet it stops the TC. Am I missing the point here? The messages are usually something like "Sunk a trawler, took crew on board" and then an hour later, "dropped crew at Starbucks for coffee". Those seem to be obvious color but sometimes they say stuff like "Convoy at lat XX long YY". This seems like it might be important (if it's real) but I don't have any way of converting lat/long into a location on the map. Is this message real? If I did figure out where it was on the map and headed over there, would I find a convoy? Lastly, occasionally I'll get a message that looks like it's completely real. This has happened only once, actually, where I got a long message telling me to sink just about anything I come across that doesn't speak German. So I guess my question is; should I be paying any attention to these at all? And if not then is there a way to stop them from dropping my TC to 1? all answers are appreciated, thanks.