[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by JohnCarterOfMars

I'm glad that you revived this thread, because I was going to if you hadn't.

I posted in the SH-3 Night Surface Attack Project thread that the Stiebler Weather Fix option was causing my Watch Officer to spot ships as far away as 14Km, which seemed excessively far away to me -- especially if the horizon is about 7.5Km away.

By comparison, I switched over to the H.sie weather fix and reloaded my saved game, and my Watchman didn't spot the merchant until I was 5.5Km from it.

So, I uninstalled the Moon Mod from the Surface Attack Project and came here to run the Stiebler EnvSim.act unaltered. It, too, is sighting ships at a 14K distance, so the issue is not in the Moon Mod.

So my question to this thread is: Is it correct to spot ships at a distance of 14Km? Is that realistic?

If not, is this a bug in the Stiebler EnvSim.act? What should I be expecting as a reasonable distance to spot ships?

Thanks to any who reply.

There are many variables in the game that affect spotting distance and I highly doubt Stiebler's envsim.act file is responsible for any problems with it.