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Originally Posted by brandtryan
sorry I can't remember which thread--but someone figured it out. IIRC, there is a black line at the bottom of the mirror image. Place this black line on the tip of the highest mast of the actual ship. According to the user, this gives very accurate range.
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that may have been me, but I get inconsistent readings.
In SH4, you had a mirror image of the ship and you would lower the waterline of the mirror image to the top mast of the actual image to get the range.
in SH5, they appear to have gone back the the SH3 method (which I have not played since 2007) where you place the thick black line in the middle of the scope on the waterline of the TGT and place a separate thinner horizontal line from the stadimeter
somewhere on the ship. I had presumed it was to the top of the mast, but in the last mission I played, I had the most accurate reading from the top of the funnel..
Part of the reason may be due to an inaccurate ship identification, some of the freighter classes look remarkably similar.
of course, if the manual actually
explained such basic info, we would not have to fumble around like a bunch of clowns trying to figure out this stuff...
