BadgerDog Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 Situation: Playing a CMBB PBEM match where during one battle an 81mm FO with radio has a targeted (blue line) for area fire and the wait time shows as 1 minute. The same FO under command of the same HQ and from exactly the same position, later targets the same area (blue) line, but this time it shows it will take 2 minutes. Question: I can't find any reason or pattern as to why this variable would change, since nothing else changed. If anything, it should have been reduced as the off-map battery would be working from coordinates that have already been used and performed a "fire for effect". Anyone have an ideas as to why this happened? Regards, Badger 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSColonel_131st Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 Strange...does fatique affect targeting times, maybe? Other than that, it could be a bug. If so, savegame to BFC certainly would be usefull. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 Question: was the battery currently engaging another target when you retargetted back to it's original coordinates? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerDog Posted April 22, 2003 Author Share Posted April 22, 2003 Originally posted by Kingfish: Question: was the battery currently engaging another target when you retargetted back to it's original coordinates? You know..... that might have something to do with it. I can't remember exactly, but it may be that I wanted to cancel the current fire mission and re-engage a new area (blue line) that was close to the original, but outside of the adjust (green line)capability. I hadn't thought about that... thanks for the feedback. It would makes sense as it would require the 81mm battery to cease fire and re-lay for the new target, hence an increase in time delay. Regards, Badger 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Manuel Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 When an artillery ETA is shown in the unit of "minutes" it's pretty vague... 4:20 of real time might be shown as either 4 minutes or 5. So the same FO type might show different ETAs for two of the same FO. They might wind up taking nearly the same time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabpub Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 I was running a little "test" on a theory that I had. took two regular 81radio spotters during the test. No HQ present. Both had good LOS to target areas that were about 100m apart. One got a 1min delay on the intial spot, the other 2min. However, by the time the first move counted down, the delay was reading 26sec for the first and 40 for the second one. So, from an intial "estimate" difference of 1min, the time difference had decreased to only 14 sec. I presume that this is a random fudge factor that has been used to prevent the "godlike" player from precisely timing barrages. In addition, I would think that an HQ presence would also help the spotters "countdown" faster. The rest is in the T&T section. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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