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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: hermanhum

When ships are engaged at a range of 40nm, they quite often detect the torpedo and can quickly run outside the 50nm range.

Then the calculation is wrong. Or is the term 'No-Escape Envelope' a misnomer? Or, do I understnad the term wrong and 'no-escape' only gets calculated at the current speed and current heading?

At any rate, it sounds like the interface should allow a human player to launch at up to Fuel Range, but with a warning message if Max launch Range and/or No-Escape Envelope are exceeded. I assume that IRL a ship's captain can do that?

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ORIGINAL: jpkoester1

I believe the No-Escape envelope is calculated by the unit's current speed (because the max speed might be unknown by the firing unit). However, when a torpedo is detected the unit goes to flank speed and may thus evade successfully.

Cheers,
JP

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ORIGINAL: VCDH


We'd like to fix it all but the guys concensus is that it's better to have a new UI from scratch. This way we can do it our way, the right way, so we can have the game we all want.