You have a point, but there are also shortcomings in the game that wouldn't apply in real life. First of all, it's very hard for you -and requires an additional effort from your brain- to place yourself in a 3D environment because you are looking at a 2D screen. A captain would look through scope and binoculars and incstintively know where he is looking at, same as you know when you are in a room where you are facing to, even if you constantly open and close the eyes and turn around. Then they also had a best screen resolution - the MKI eyeball- with all the details and stereoscopic vision for distance estimation. And last, but not least, a real crew of trained men who knew what their job was, not a dummy AI. So, in the end, when you play this games you have shortcomings and also advantages, and altogether there is a tendency to get a balance. Except in one thing -which probably is the most important one!: You are not going to die
I have always thought that this is the main departure from reality (Thankfully!!) and that throws you from the real life tactics and feeling. When in doubt, few commanders would press on, knowing their life, their crew and their ship was at serious risk. Unlike us
