[TorpX]

Originally Posted by in_vino_vomitus

As for the fairy lights in the rigging idea, that was born out of my struggles to get a workable range estimate for a destroyer whose mast seemed to flicker in and out of vision. I thought it would be particularly convenient if a crewmember decided to climb up there with a torch at that exact moment, and an idea was born.

Some time ago, I suggested that ship mast tops be given a round globe (like a flag pole) to combat this flicker/shimmer thing. Nobody seemed to like the idea; one poster compared it to the gamey blinking triangles in auto-targeting. Oh well....