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Originally Posted by Highbury
I was in the Navy as well. The light off of a full moon is certainly impressive, you can read by it. It certainly makes it very easy to see ships, but being in peacetime they are all lit by law.. I never came across a convoy trying to slip past us under cover of darkness with all lights out.... have you?
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You presume that the only reason I saw ships, in the night, during my USN tour was because of their running lights. I was in the Red Sea and the Gulf when Khadaafi thought he was a bit (LOL!) more powerful than he really was. I can assert, again, that we could see small gunboats and various other ships...not just their running lights, but their outlines...enough to identify them. The important point to make is that I could SEE the outline of the ship...not just some running lights. The other point (or the same) is that, we ran "darkened ship" in some of the afformentioned areas, and we still could see the oilers or carriers we needed to refuel off of, from a very long way off...conditions permitting, of course. That's the caveat...conditions permitting. It seems with SH3 + GWX that we have no "conditions" other than pure black night...no matter what the REAL conditions are? When I run accross a convoy, in a full moon condition, I should be able to thank the Gods and hammer away at them! War is a combination of intent, planning...and just a bit of luck. I used to plan some of my attacks for nighttime...if a large moon was coming. I then discovered that SH3/GWX doesn't care about historic lunar cycles and GWX doesn't care about ambient light.
You want real...allow for ambient light conditions and lunar cycles. SH3 already does it for the Sun and season...why not the moon and sky? Trying to line up a merchie at night, when I can see a full moon above me but not see squat on the horizon...is not right. Sorry...but it ain't.
That, my friends, is REALITY.
I'm tired of the darkness for darkness's sake. It seems the "reality dogs" have taken over, not actually KNOWING reality, and demanded changes that have no bearing on truth. I can only hope that the next version of SH and GWX will recognize the simple truth...you CAN see ships against the horizon, in the middle of the night, if you have a clear sky. It's really that simple.
Vic