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Originally Posted by WH4K

Using an essentially "flat" Earth is understandable, and probably vastly simplified development. So I can see why Ubi's done it.

Using a realistic round earth would require a lot of the same techniques that were developed for real-world navigation, so it's not as if Ubisoft would have to reinvent spherical coordinates etc. Today's desktop PC's have a surfeit of processing power, so the only barrier to round-Earth modeling in games is development time.

That's pretty much my view of it. My TI-85 converts spherical to rectagular coordinates for pete's sake.

If there were problems with implementing a spherical model, they could have compromised and used a flat model for tactical distances.