Radar"please read me"

[yanksfan]

Originally posted by Lusche
Some bases are under continous attack for a lot longer than just one hour...
If your squadie was online before, base will flash on his map.

I have spend quite some time looking for this thing. I have never experienced a base failing to flash when I was already online when the first enemy entered the range. Never.
Any base not flashing was always under attack already when i logged on.

BTW, there is another bug that will make a base continue to flash even when no enemy is around. That can happen when an enemy disco's while being inside the alarm range.

i have always had this problem, even when say, badhorse, jdjnr, jawbone and i all log into an arena at the same time, they will be flashing and i won't, or i will be flashing and they won't, even with "The Damned" same thing, could it be a glitch in "my" system

[Laciner]

"That's the key to the whole idea of the flashing base. Planes at any altitude are observable."

I believe in real life the British, at least, used sound detectors - a mixture of large concrete dishes, and smaller models:
http://www.doramusic.com/Radar.htm

The Jerries had something called "Ringtrichterrichtungshoerer" and the Japanese had giant tubas:
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/ear/ear.htm

And I imagine that, with the short ranges in Aces High, you'd hear planes coming a mile off. Perhaps the windmills have spies in them.

[Shuffler]

They are listening.....

[C(Sea)Bass]

Originally posted by Shuffler
They are listening.....

Yes I beleive it was the Germans who came up with the sheep scouts in the latter part of the war. I also think the allies used them to detect submarine noise approaching convoys.

[rednex21]

Originally posted by LYNX
It's 500 ft in or out of dar circle

I thought it was 200ft for dar bar and 500ft for red dot in the ring?

Was never sure but if I run NOE i stay below 200.....Let me know (preferibally someone that actually WORKS for HTC and KNOWS for certain.)




Banshee7

[Lusche]

Originally posted by rednex21

Was never sure but if I run NOE i stay below 200.....Let me know (preferibally someone that actually WORKS for HTC and KNOWS for certain.)

 

You don't kneed to work for them to know for certain
It is and was always 500 ft.
Search BBS or check default arena settings for offline terrain or do a test with a friend online.

[Rolex]

Lusche is correct.

[LYNX]

Originally posted by rednex21

Originally posted by LYNX
It's 500 ft in or out of dar circle

I thought it was 200ft for dar bar and 500ft for red dot in the ring?

Was never sure but if I run NOE i stay below 200.....Let me know (preferibally someone that actually WORKS for HTC and KNOWS for certain.)




Banshee7

Everything is 500 ft dar limit everywhere.  Under 200ft it's very hard to see your planes icon when above.  

200ft is the accepted norm because when making low hard turns it's amazing how many will climb over 100 or 200ft doing it.

PS my 1,000 th post.  What an anti climax

[TalonX]

Here is what I thought....

1.  Friendlies can see dar bar if you are over 200 feet.
2.  Enemies can see dar bar if you are over 500 feet.
3.  Bases flash when you are within the radar circle in aircraft.
4.  GV's make the town flash, then the base, if you approach the town.   Not sure the range, but you can get fairly close.

Of course, if this is wrong, I have spent a lot of time paying attention to meaningless alt figures.

[LYNX]

Originally posted by TalonX
Here is what I thought....

1.  Friendlies can see dar bar if you are over 200 feet.
2.  Enemies can see dar bar if you are over 500 feet.
3.  Bases flash when you are within the radar circle in aircraft.
4.  GV's make the town flash, then the base, if you approach the town.   Not sure the range, but you can get fairly close.

Of course, if this is wrong, I have spent a lot of time paying attention to meaningless alt figures.

1) dar bar is 500ft
2)correct
3)and GV's or PT's
4)Depends where spawn is or if in a plane what direction you come from.  The town or field can flash first depending what your nearest to as you arrive. Always use this as an indicator of enemy direction.  Rule of thumb also is if no dar bar it's usually GV's.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by TalonX
Here is what I thought....

1.  Friendlies can see dar bar if you are over 200 feet.
2.  Enemies can see dar bar if you are over 500 feet.
3.  Bases flash when you are within the radar circle in aircraft.
4.  GV's make the town flash, then the base, if you approach the town.   Not sure the range, but you can get fairly close.

Of course, if this is wrong, I have spent a lot of time paying attention to meaningless alt figures.

You can look up all those numbers in offline terrain settings:

1) & 2) "RadarAlt" = 500
There is only this one altitude setting for all radar modes.
If friendlies are able to see your dot at all ect is gouverned by "RadarMode" wich can be set for each country individually

3) "FighterWarningRange" & "BomberWarningRange" = 63360
That's coincidentally the same range as our base radar "TowerBasedRadarRange"

4) "VehicleWarningRange" = 15840. If the town is far away from field, you can even be in town without triggering base flash alarm.


All range values are given in feet.

[Rolex]

Originally posted by TalonX
Here is what I thought....

1.  Friendlies can see dar bar if you are over 200 feet.
2.  Enemies can see dar bar if you are over 500 feet.
3.  Bases flash when you are within the radar circle in aircraft.
4.  GV's make the town flash, then the base, if you approach the town.   Not sure the range, but you can get fairly close.

Of course, if this is wrong, I have spent a lot of time paying attention to meaningless alt figures.

Deleted because Lusche gave same answer.

[SFCHONDO]

Originally posted by swoop777
Ok here goes, I got to thinking about this the other night while trying to capture a base.  First off here is what I know about radar (I think) and please correct me if I am wrong.  First,  dar bar limit is 500 ft. and second is circle dar is 200 ft., so here is where the thoughts came into play.  If I have myself or a squaddie go take out radar tower at a base (tower clearly destroyed) and we are NOE, technically the radar is out at that given base so why does the base flash as soon as you hit the broken down non operational radar circle?  I could see if there were an enemy within 6.0k which is the current con range, (again I think) then it would be ok for the base to flash but I think the flashes should go if nobody is there to see ya. just think that would be  a little more realistic.  I know this post isnt gonna change it but just wanted some more opinions.

Naa crappy idea. System works fine as is.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Rolex
Deleted because Lusche gave same answer.

But..but.. Sir, you've got far more authority!