[CapnScurvy]

Ok, I'm going to make a point about realism; how it relates or doesn't relate to the game.

1) There's the contention that figuring out manual targeting and all of it's aspects is simulating real life (least the best the game can do).

2) There's the fact that in real life not every firing is going to create a hit.

So to balance out game play some ringers are thrown in to throw off accurate range finding and create realism. My problem with this approach is that the figures your using will always be inaccurate. No matter how good you get in manual targeting, no matter how well you master navigation map plotting with the game settings for map contacts turned off. The ship you want to make range on will always give you an inaccurate reading because the height figure is incorrect.

There's also this idea that having the real life measurements will create realism. Measurements are put into the game because it says so from the ONI, so this makes for good game play?

First off why in the world would anyone think that the real life measurements are the least bit accurate within the game? Your assuming a lot to think a nautical mile is represented to be 1852 meters, and that it is accurately displayed on the navigation map. Or that an object that is 10 meters tall can be displayed through the periscope image to really be measured as 10 meters tall. The comparison of real life measurements to what is in the game is just a "representation". It's not accurate. To make them accurate the game 10 meters has to be calibrated to what is represented to be 10 meters, then you've got accuracy.

I know there are those that say we don't want the game to be too accurate. Well neither do I. The fact is if your using manual targeting there are all kinds of ways to screw up; forgetting to open the tube doors, not figuring the speed right, AOB off a bit. When you make a stadimeter reading you flinch off the left click of the mouse throwing off the mark, giving you an inaccurate range. The fact that the ships stadimeter height (where ever it is) shouldn't be one of them.