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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
OTC is a matter of opinion.
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Yes it is.
Since RR has decided to enlighten us with his "take" on OTC (not that he hasn't done it
before).....here's mine.
The stock game is flawed with inaccurate measurements. In both the optical view of the world (no way the stock games Periscopes Telemeter Divisions can produce an accurate measurement....their just eye candy)
and, the provided Mast Height measurements within the Recognition Manual the game uses to calculate the Stadimeter's manual range finding.
For those that accept the fact that the game limits a single measurement (the only one found in the RM) to be the basis of calculating Range to target when using the Stadimeter,
and you accept the reality that this measurement is going to produce an inaccurate Range to target, every time you use the measurement.....then stop here and be content to accept RR's idea of game play reality.
"The gun miss fires to the left, so live with it" would be his logical conclusion. You either miss the target every time,
OR you correct the aim because you find the ability to have accuracy more compelling than some notion of living with a poor misplaced shot. RR's "fallacy" is to believe the real life participants in submarine warfare would accept their miss guided use of the tools at hand and accept no other outcome but to have inaccurate measurements.
This is not reality. It's an attempt to press his belief that inaccurate measurements should be accepted without question, without the possibility of correction. Nothing could be further from reality!!
I'm not going to repeat myself, but I offer
this previous post regarding another one of RR's "opinions" from the Optical Targeting Correction thread. The point being, in "reality" if a measurement is found to be inaccurate.....it gets fixed!!
OTC provides an accurate tool to base Stadimeter Range finding when using the Height measurements found in the RM. It also provides an accurate world view to allow a tool like the Omnimeter to be used. In either case, this accuracy is very much limited to other factors which come into play that diminish your results. The idea that an accurate range finding is going to be gained by simply using near accurate measurements is false.....it won't happen. It's true the measurements are as accurate as possible (so were the ONI Recognition Manuals when they were released too). Getting nuts-on accurate readings is quite another.
Have you ever wondered why you've gotten a Sonar Range reading that's different than your Stadimeter reading. It's because the Sonar Range reading is exactly (to the yard) accurate. I don't see RR railing about this (any more then him distancing himself away from "reality" with his "Subnuclear" weapon mods). You would think if he's content in providing an opinion of "reality" for OTC, he'd give equal time to his own mods. Or, at least to the stock games Sonar approach to Range finding. What's good for the goose...is good for the gander.
But, lets talk about the accuracy of Range finding since RR seems to think OTC gives away the farm. When placing the Stadimeter's second image of the targets waterline on the Height position, any twitch of the finger will misplace the waterline. I can tell you
even if you you place the waterline exactly on the correct pixel line (YES,
each pixel line will produce a different Range reading....the further away from the exact pixel line, the greater the inaccuracy in Range finding results), you're not going to get an exact (to the yard) measurement. It doesn't get calculated that way. Depending at what distance your actually from the measured target will determine
how far off (inaccurate) the final Range finding will be. The further away the target, one pixel line off from the "sweet spot" can produce dozens of yards difference in Range finding. Not just a couple of yards.....dozens. How wide is a Pixel line in-game....there are
three pixel lines in just one of the stock periscope Telemeter Divisions (those lines that are "eye candy" on the scope lens).
Again, that's
3 pixel lines to one stock Telemeter Division hash mark! It doesn't take much effort to miss by a hash mark width!
Lose the periscope stability option, and you'll have quite a time coming close to making an accurate measurement with the Stadimeter or measuring with the Telemeter Divisions when using OTC. It's by no means a cinch as some would like you to believe.
Not to mention the RM measurements found within some mods like TMO and RFB are inaccurate....by design. So, you wish to play using measurements that are "on purpose" inaccurate? To have a mast height like TMO's CV Hiryu to produce a 2000 yard distance, when in fact the true distance is 4000 yards? OK, play your game as you see fit. That's
my opinion
