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Offline Dadtallica

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Re: Current radar settings
« Reply #15 on: Today at 09:18:28 AM »
Brought up the clipboard and I could see the radar icon while that plane was on the ground.

So lame using the clipboard!!! :rofl :cheers:
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Re: Current radar settings
« Reply #16 on: Today at 10:48:45 AM »
Wilco. I’ll take some shots and maybe a video or two (if I can remember how to do it).

Video will not help as much as a simple alt print screen, save with paint or the aces high screen shot key

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Re: Current radar settings
« Reply #17 on: Today at 10:55:42 AM »
It seems that "Seen Contacts" are shown at dot range, rather than icon range as before for the "proximity dar".  Is that right?
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Re: Current radar settings
« Reply #18 on: Today at 10:56:58 AM »
Video will not help as much as a simple alt print screen, save with paint or the aces high screen shot key

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Ok thanks. AH combo something I can ask crew chief?
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Re: Current radar settings
« Reply #19 on: Today at 10:58:59 AM »
LilMak, CAV: I think what you are seeing is how "seen" works, so here are the rules.

A contact is "seen" when any friendly player sees it:
- That friendly can be in flight or in the tower, and that includes you. Sitting on the runway or in the tower, you are seeing for your whole country.
- Seen range is out to dot range, about 7.5 miles in the MA. That is a lot farther than icon range.
- It needs a clear line of sight: not through terrain or clouds, and not in the sun.
- AI planes do not see for anyone.

Radar towers have nothing to do with seen contacts, so dar down does not stop them. Dar down only stops the 5 second radar dots.

A seen contact updates every 20 seconds and stays up to about 35 seconds after the last sighting. That is why a plane that just landed can still show on the clipboard for a bit.

So with dar down at your base and you on the runway, bombers crossing the ring within about 7.5 miles of you are "seen" by you.

If you still see one that nobody within about 7.5 miles could have seen, an alt print screen of the clipboard plus where every friendly was would help me track it down.

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Re: Current radar settings
« Reply #20 on: Today at 11:02:20 AM »
LilMak: yes, ask Crew Chief to take a screenshot. It saves one and tells you which key is yours for it (Alt+S unless you changed it).

The pictures go in the scrshot folder inside your Aces High III folder.

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Re: Current radar settings
« Reply #21 on: Today at 12:28:33 PM »
LilMak, CAV: I think what you are seeing is how "seen" works, so here are the rules.

A contact is "seen" when any friendly player sees it:
- That friendly can be in flight or in the tower, and that includes you. Sitting on the runway or in the tower, you are seeing for your whole country.
- Seen range is out to dot range, about 7.5 miles in the MA. That is a lot farther than icon range.
- It needs a clear line of sight: not through terrain or clouds, and not in the sun.
- AI planes do not see for anyone.

Radar towers have nothing to do with seen contacts, so dar down does not stop them. Dar down only stops the 5 second radar dots.

A seen contact updates every 20 seconds and stays up to about 35 seconds after the last sighting. That is why a plane that just landed can still show on the clipboard for a bit.

So with dar down at your base and you on the runway, bombers crossing the ring within about 7.5 miles of you are "seen" by you.

If you still see one that nobody within about 7.5 miles could have seen, an alt print screen of the clipboard plus where every friendly was would help me track it down.

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So players are “seeing” well beyond icon range?!??? That would explain a great deal of what I witnessed last night.

If so, that’s extremely disappointing and it should be drawn in from 7.5 miles to no more than icon range. Up until that point, there should be no ability to “see” and determine friend from enemy.

Assuming and equilateral triangle anywhere I look. I can look in 4 different directions in about a second covering almost 56 square miles.
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Re: Current radar settings
« Reply #22 on: Today at 03:16:35 PM »
I think your new radar is innovative for air to air.

Still, it puts GVs at a bit more disadvantage.   Not only can a plane find a GV looking for the GV's icon, and or using film, the GV has problems seeing the plane now.


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Re: Current radar settings
« Reply #23 on: Today at 03:20:06 PM »
My vision isn't AH vision..I am legally blind without corrective lenses  :old:

Maybe different distances for each player after submitting their last eye examination   :banana:

So if the plane is within range it is seen? Even if it hasn't been by the player..afk,   10k under or abask,, etc..

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