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Old 11-24-11, 04:23 PM   #2
Pisces
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There is no problem, no bug! And therefore no patch neccessary!

The length of the line is rounded to the nearest tenth of a kilometer, as it should! So if the line is shorter than 0.05 km (50 meters, or 1 square at the deepest zoomlevel) then it is shown as 0.0. If it is longer than 0.05km, but shorter than 0.15km (150 meters, 3 squares at the deepest zoomlevel) then it shows as 0.1. Same goes for longer lengths. Whatever length the ruler shows, you can be sure that the actual length of the line is never more than 50 meters longer or 50 meters shorter.

And you gain nothing in aim-accuracy or hit-succes with being more accurate to 50 meters. Believe me, I know, I'm a nitpicker by nature! Averaging distance travelled over longer time is what helps you the most. As speed is what matters the most in leading torpedoes on target. Not range. Besides, at 8km (stock 3d horizon distance) 1 degree of bearing is 140 meters wide. Making plotting errors of 50 meters in range a moot point.


p.s. what I did notice is that the thick and thinner gridlines exchange thickness as you pan the map. The thick line always jumps back to the end of the mapscale. Real maps do not do that as your eyes scan over it.
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