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Title: Dar-bar
Post by: skysnipr on August 27, 2006, 08:45:01 PM

Can someone explain to me exactly what this is, and how it works and all that stuff. I know it has to do with radar, not much more than that though. Thanks.

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: texastc316 on August 27, 2006, 10:38:06 PM

I dont really know how to explain it. But basically it measures the air activity in a sector.. over 400 feet. takes 3 or so planes to even register I think. others can explain it better, but thats what I understand

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: Widewing on August 27, 2006, 10:41:55 PM

1/5th DAR BAR indicates one enemy aircraft in sector. 2/5ths indicates 2 enemy and so on until the DAR BAR is full. This now indicates at least 5 enemy aircraft, but could be many more than that.

Note also that the DAR BAR only shows those aircraft flying at greater than 500 feet above ground level.

My regards,

Widewing

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: forHIM on August 27, 2006, 11:39:51 PM

Widewing,  correct me if I'm wrong, but the friendly bar does not show your plane.  So if you are the only person in the sector and are above 500 AGL your FE won't show a green bar, but to other countrymen they will see 1/5 of a bar and the enemy will see a 1/5 red bar.

So if you see a sector that has a lot of green dots, but no dar-bar the group is most likely NOE (below 500 AGL) and are trying to sneak into an enemy base.

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: Schatzi on August 28, 2006, 03:20:50 AM

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Originally posted by forHIM
Widewing,  correct me if I'm wrong, but the friendly bar does not show your plane.  So if you are the only person in the sector and are above 500 AGL your FE won't show a green bar, but to other countrymen they will see 1/5 of a bar and the enemy will see a 1/5 red bar.

So if you see a sector that has a lot of green dots, but no dar-bar the group is most likely NOE (below 500 AGL) and are trying to sneak into an enemy base.

Yup.

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: fuzeman on August 28, 2006, 09:22:22 AM

And technically dar-bar or bar-dar is called a sector counter.

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: Krusty on August 28, 2006, 09:29:46 AM

I think it's smaller than fifths... might be sixths or sevenths... Not sure.

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: skysnipr on August 28, 2006, 10:23:39 AM

I probably should have asked this before, but what does it look like? Is it the green and brown rectangles on the map?

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: Lusche on August 28, 2006, 10:49:07 AM

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Originally posted by skysnipr
I probably should have asked this before, but what does it look like? Is it the green and brown rectangles on the map?

yes

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: The Fugitive on August 28, 2006, 06:46:03 PM

green is "friendly's", brown, red is "enemy"

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: GunnerCAF on August 28, 2006, 09:31:03 PM

It looks to me that a full bar is 10, or more.  The first bar is a double length (1/5) and this can indicate that 1 or 2 players are in that sector.  From there it increases in 1/10 segments for each additional player in that sector.  When the bar is full length across the sector, there are at least 10 players in that sector.

No matter what the actual number is, it is a visual indicator of the number of friendly and enemy in the sector.

Gunner

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: Schatzi on August 29, 2006, 06:16:10 AM

http://www.netaces.org/ahradar/radarmap.html#title

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: RSLQK186 on August 29, 2006, 05:37:14 PM

I believe it also shows the ratio between friendly and enemy. I have seen 20 friendlies above dar-bar level and only half a green bar to their full bar. This would indicate that my country was out numbered 2 to 1.

And if they haven't changed it lately dar picks you up at 200 AGL. Been caught looking to may times on NOEs to beleive otherwise.

Title: Dar-bar
Post by: Krusty on August 29, 2006, 05:41:05 PM

Dar bar has always been and always will be 500 feet. But the 200 feet myth persists :) Just an FYI.