PatrolScan
How often a patrolling team looks around for something to attack.
- Applies to
- global rules
- File
rules.ini- Section
[AI]- Value
- floating point
- When omitted
.016
The value is in minutes and becomes a whole number of frames, so the default is 14 frames at 900 frames to the game minute. Only the Patrol to waypoint… team mission reads it.
At each interval, a patrolling team looks for the greatest threat within its leader’s GuardRange, or within the leader’s weapon range when GuardRange is zero. If it finds one, the team attacks it. If it finds none, the team drops any target it was attacking and continues toward its waypoint.
The leader is the first member that has joined up with the team; an aircraft counts as joined at once. If no member has joined yet, the first member leads.
The interval counts game frames, not the time since each team started patrolling, so every patrolling team in the scenario scans on the same frames.