When I installed the game I had some (until now unspoken) complaints about the realism options - particularly the map updates and the weapons officer assistance. RUb fixed map updates for me, but I'd still like to have a fix for the weapons officer. Seems to me that maxiumum "realism" would be achieved if the weapons officer assistance could be turned on (isn't that what he's there for IRL, after all?) and the super-human speed he does it could be turned off, so you ask him for a solution and a minute later (or more/less depending on his experience, perhaps?) he gives it to you. That would be sweet.
The firing solution isn't the only reason I prefer leaving WP assistance on; he also identifies targets at range, which I would be able to do if I could "see" as clearly in the game as I can in real life (my eyes, I'm sure, have a much higher resolution than 1024x768). The only downside is his ability to ID ships at night just as well as in the daytime.
So, I'm playing with the assistance turned on. I played with it off for a while, just to prove to myself that I could do it, but for me ON is closer to "realistic" than OFF.
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