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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Review of SubLogic Jet.
Message-ID: <45378@sun.uucp>
Date: 14 Mar 88 20:04:53 GMT
References: <5400@swan.ulowell.edu>
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Keywords: Games, Jet

In article <5400@swan.ulowell.edu> (Robert Silvers) writes:
>                          Review of SubLogic Jet.
>	In multi-player mode, I sometimes had a problem with missiles
>	not locking on.  I originally thought this is bug, but when I
>	cut the baud rate down from some 57,000 to 19200, it seemed to
>	decrease in occurence.  We were using about a 30 foot cable.

Well, I believe you have misinterpreted that cause and effect here. 
My personal feeling is that your missles could not lock on because the
other player was not flying straight. You see in real life the only time
a radar guided missle can lock on is when you have pointed at the target
for >5 seconds. During that time it acquires the targets "signature" and
can home in on that. If the opponent keeps moving then the signature 
keeps varying and the missle can't lock on. Unfortunately with the low
resolution of the display a lot of this movement is undetectable to you.

I was playing at one of the local Amiga stores and my opponent claimed that
the system was broken because he couldn't 'lock on' to me. After several
reboots and restarts (I could lock on just fine) we switched machines and
what do you know? The problem switched machines as well! Leading me to believe
it was cockpit error rather than software error. The other thing we were
wondering but never figured out, was the effect of one person playing at
level 9 while the other person played at level 1.


--Chuck McManis
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