DWReese
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Joined: 3/21/2014 From: Miami, Florida Status: offline
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KH, Thanks for looking into this. I do understand what you are saying about not firing at the DF-21s until their speed reaches 6500, but I was not manually firing the RIM 161 Es. The AI was doing that firing. I would only fire the DF-21s at the cruiser, and I then switched to the Blue Side watch the cruiser fire at DF-21s. The surveillance ship, of course, detects the DF-21s immediately after their launch, long before they reach 6500 kts per hour. Since the RIM 161 E has such a tremendous range (over 1100 nm) then the cruiser immediately starts firing. As you stated, this is the culprit. Re-running the scenario, but turning the Lorenzen's radar off until the DF-21s reach 6500 per hour (roughly at 05:23:23), and then activating the radar, does mean that the missiles are now much closer when they are fired from the cruiser, and When that happens, the intercept works perfectly. As I earlier said, however, I wasn't the one firing at them, the AI was doing that. Therefore, they were being fired long before the DF-21s reached 6500 kts per hour. In summary, it's WAD, but only if I turn the Lorenzen's radar off until the DF-21s reach 6500 kts, and I wouldn't normally do that. A game player shouldn't have to be expected to turn the radar off and wait until an enemy missile reaches cruising speed before turning the radar on, just so that they can b detected later. That's unrealistic. Since the intercept process otherwise works so well, I don't know if this should even be addressed at this point for fear that it could get broken. But, as you stated, the issue of AI firing the RIM 161 Es BEFORE the missiles reach their 6500 kts is the problem. Regarding your suggestion to accomplish the detonation of errant missiles through Special Events, I believe that a more simple concept is needed, and it might be to just have a button. It would really sort of be like a DELETE button, to just simply remove the missiles from the game. Perhaps they could add this for the future. Thanks again for your help.
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