The best waypoint configuration for catching things

03-07-06, 05:33 PM

so i was laying in my DD-lines on the RND and SCR layers of the mod i am building when it dawned on me that those Accordion-like configurations of bazilions of waypoints just bit me where it really hurts to sit down. so i ran tests (i love tests

) and made a series of DD sentry configurations. turns out the old Accordion was good for catching real slow things, like my sub under the water. But it was worthless for catching medium and fast speed things. i suppose the only real thing it had value for was it made the DDs kinda appear to be guided by a strange force, like, "Gosh there seems to be something living inside that DD..."

Turns out the best config for catching the bad guys crossing your sentry line....is a plain oold 'SENTRY LINE'. Alexander the Great would have liked hearing that.... i don't know if the Accordion pattern was real per WWII, but if it was those 40s guys were in sore need of some computer models to work with! That waypoint-obese configuration was only about 28 to 33% effective at catching random crossings of its area. Amazingly a simple line built of 2 waypoints (YES, TWO!) with a loop on #2 added to loop back to #1, was best. Strangely, (unexpectedly really) a single DD moving at 30 knots on a single sentry line one line thick and 400 Km long was 73% effective. Adding a few randomized layers of say 3 sentry lines (thats about 7 waypoints) created a murder zone that nothing could get past.

anyway, now i can quit quilting vast arrays of waypoints.....

03-07-06, 05:33 PM	#1
redbrow Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	The best waypoint configuration for catching things so i was laying in my DD-lines on the RND and SCR layers of the mod i am building when it dawned on me that those Accordion-like configurations of bazilions of waypoints just bit me where it really hurts to sit down. so i ran tests (i love tests ) and made a series of DD sentry configurations. turns out the old Accordion was good for catching real slow things, like my sub under the water. But it was worthless for catching medium and fast speed things. i suppose the only real thing it had value for was it made the DDs kinda appear to be guided by a strange force, like, "Gosh there seems to be something living inside that DD..." Turns out the best config for catching the bad guys crossing your sentry line....is a plain oold 'SENTRY LINE'. Alexander the Great would have liked hearing that.... i don't know if the Accordion pattern was real per WWII, but if it was those 40s guys were in sore need of some computer models to work with! That waypoint-obese configuration was only about 28 to 33% effective at catching random crossings of its area. Amazingly a simple line built of 2 waypoints (YES, TWO!) with a loop on #2 added to loop back to #1, was best. Strangely, (unexpectedly really) a single DD moving at 30 knots on a single sentry line one line thick and 400 Km long was 73% effective. Adding a few randomized layers of say 3 sentry lines (thats about 7 waypoints) created a murder zone that nothing could get past. anyway, now i can quit quilting vast arrays of waypoints.....