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Originally Posted by TorpX
I mean the game horizon goes no farther than 10 nm. (Unless someone has modded something better?) I certainly didn't mean to say that in RL, nothing can be seen beyond 10 nm.
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Ah, got it. I wasn't sure, so I asked.
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This made me think of a passage in the book, Sunk!, by Capt. Hashimoto. In it, he mentions looking through the periscope and seeing a blur, which he took to be a cloud at first, then realized was Guam, from a distance of 26 mi. [The highest point on Guam is 1,332 ft. according to Wekipedia]. So, it is certainly possible to see large land masses at a much farther range than we can, in game.
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WOW!
That's pretty darned impressive! I wouldn't have thought that possible, through a periscope. Thanks for pointing that out.
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This 10 nm. horizon was a pet peeve of mine, since I had formerly been trying to use "Celestial Navigation", and found, I could never see any mountains beyond 9.9 nm., or so.
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I thought the SH4 default was 20 km, or about 12 nm. Not much of a difference, but still either one is far better than the SH3 default of 8 km, or 5 nm. I'm pretty sure they did it to account for computer limitations at the time, but I also agree that a realistic distance would be nice.