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Lomri -> Search Arcs (7/26/2011 3:14:57 PM)


I'm sure this gets asked all the time but I feel like the discussion has gone back and forth several times.

I'm running the latest beta patch. Do people feel like search arcs are working as expected?

From a google search I have seen several people comment that in the beta patches search arcs are working. (http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2761045&mpage=1&key=� from 3/22/2011 and http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2814151&mpage=1&key=� from 5/17/2011).

From the change logs in patch 1107 I see:
Fixed Search arcs seem to be generated in reverse sequence. This varies depending on the size and angles of the search sector. Added anti-/clockwise option to search arc on group screen due to confusion when large sectors being assigned [MEM]

But that was a while ago, and I seem to recall discussion at the time saying that this may not actually be working as expected. Other than that I don't see any new comments in the patch logs about search arcs.

Sorry if I've missed an obvious thread discussion or if this is old news and I'm just way out of date.



sdhundt -> RE: Search Arcs (7/26/2011 3:21:42 PM)

I would also like this answered.....I don't use arcs since they don't work but if this has changed a designer should chime in on this.



witpqs -> RE: Search Arcs (7/26/2011 3:57:17 PM)

In the Beta they work fine in my experience. Is that what you are asking?



vonTirpitz -> RE: Search Arcs (7/26/2011 4:00:58 PM)

As far as I can tell they seem to be working perfectly fine in my PBEM as well.



Lomri -> RE: Search Arcs (7/26/2011 4:42:18 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: witpqs

In the Beta they work fine in my experience. Is that what you are asking?


Yup, that's what I'm asking. I remember threads going back and forth about search arcs being fixed, but not really, maybe they were reversed, etc.. Got me all confused so I turned off search arcs for a long time only to think of it the other day and wonder if it got resolved while I wasn't paying attention.

Thanks for the feed back. I'll be going and setting up my pretty search arcs (I always liked how the Z key made things look).

Oh, and it works as well with ASW right? So all my west coast ASW patrols don't look in the desert.



witpqs -> RE: Search Arcs (7/26/2011 4:55:11 PM)

At the very, very beginning of the Beta there were a couple of revisions to get them all working fully. Aside from that early stuff, the arcs work in the Beta - both Nav Search and ASW.

And just to be totally clear, they do not work in the latest official release (IIRC that is 1106i).



dr.hal -> RE: Search Arcs (7/26/2011 5:14:44 PM)

I agree...the search arcs work well AND are very useful in directing your limited assets toward threat sectors rather than spanning out over barren waters (or as Lomri says, open "desert"!).



oldman45 -> RE: Search Arcs (7/26/2011 10:03:22 PM)

The search arc's maybe working, but my pilots are spending too much time using auto pilot and napping in the cockpit. [;)]



sdhundt -> RE: Search Arcs (7/26/2011 11:05:37 PM)

Will search arcs work in 6i or must I instal a Beat patch ?



sdhundt -> RE: Search Arcs (7/26/2011 11:06:47 PM)

Disregard, I missed the info regarding not working with 6i



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