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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
You realize that having the waterline below the horizon also makes mast heights lower in real life?
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Yes, but the point is that in real life you'd know the waterline was visible if it was in front of the horizon. Likewise if you could only see only the horizon, you'd know that you couldn't see the waterline (or the ship was right on the horizon). In the game you can see the waterline AND the horizon, so it makes you think you can see the waterline, when you shouldn't be able to.
In the first composite picture, you can see the waterline and the horizon visible at the same time, with the horizon a bit higher than the waterline. Therefore, the game has drawn the ship so that it appears between the horizon and your submarine, rather than the ship being drawn 'behind' the horizon, obscured by the curvature of the Earth. So when the waterline is behind the horizon, it isn't it's in front of it.