[TorpX]

I would agree, except that we should be able to see the masts much better than we do. I don't expect stadimeter estimates to be dead on, but they should be half way useful. Even at moderate ranges, if I watch them for awhile, I can see them grow and shrink. This is mostly a graphical element of the game; not something realistic or intended.

I should add that I'm not talking about a drastically larger knob either. Unless you are staring at it from 10 yards away, it would most likely not look especially large.

For anybody interested:

I currently run a 23" 16X9 Monitor at 1080p

Viewed from 20" away, the resolution required to match the "standard 20-20" human eye would be something like 9000X5893

This amounts to actual image output being about 4% of the ideal

At 32bit color (true color), this is 1697184000 bits, which is 202.32 megabytes *per frame*.

Link to thread:http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=201121

This is from ColonelSandersLite. He has been using a technique where the width of the ship is used to calculate range instead of the height. Naturally, the stadimeter cannot be used for this. Why is he doing it this way? Only because of the lousy graphics problem. We know they did not do it this way; they used the stadimeter.