@h.sie
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Originally Posted by h.sie
@Kafka: Thanks for your post....
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My post was not intended in any way to depreciate any of your fine and intensive work on this mod, and it was never intentionally directed at you or the mod, nor on it's merits as being realistic or not. I'm truly sorry if you thought it did.
Rather, I wanted to make others think before making a statement and declaring it a "fact" based on their own assumptions and without any valid proof, especially when making comments to others.
It was the post about using the sextant at night and declaring a "bare fact" that irritated me the most and prompted me to post. This was an attempt to support 'Noisy_Buoy', who was trying to make a point (admittedly inadequately) about facts and assumptions, it was obvious to me that he was getting a little frustrated.
When he spoke about seeing the silhouettes of ships on the horizon at night, he was stating something which I knew was closer to reality than what others believed. The problem is that others believe the visible horizon line for a real U-Boat is the game's 16km horizon when it is not, and they believe that clear moonless nights are pitch black, which it is not. That is why I posted about night vision and Kriegsmarine Night Vision Binoculars and the fact that they can amplify the tiny amount of available light to the point that the contrast against the night sky can be enhanced with the use of filters.
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The balance / relations are more important than absolute values.
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I'm in total agreement with you there.
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So the main question is: Are visible ranges / detection ranges smaller at night or not?
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Based on the articles I posted, yes they are, but they are not as small as people think, considering that nighttime spotting was done with the use of the previously mentioned Night Vision Binoculars and not with the naked eye. Again, based on the articles I posted, the effective average range of contact at night could be about 7.5 kilometers. Please note I said average, which would include the best and the worst night time light conditions, which would make the range longer and shorter respectively, by how much I can't say.
Regards,
Kafka BC
PS. Don't change the name of your mod on my account, people will know what you mean. I shouldn't have used the phrase "so called", sorry, it was a misuse of words on my part, happens to me all the time. I do think it is a bug, I just don't consider it as great a bug as others I encounter in the game.