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Bootheavy · 02-01-20, 07:26 PM

I’m guessing here, but the width of a ship at 6x mag should be 4x the width at 1.5 mag. So if you measure width (or height) in ticks at 1.5 you might be able to multiply them by 4 and use them in the RAOBF. You could test this with a ship that is close comparing 1.5 mag x 4 raobf range estimate and the stadimeter. I don’t know if the same simple relationship holds for ship passage time at 1.5 vs 6 mag, and also if the periscope ticks change at 1.5 vs 6 it’s also going to break the relationship to RAOBF values. This is all me thinkalouding without any in game testing. Good question though.

02-01-20, 07:26 PM	#2
Bootheavy Swabbie Join Date: Jun 2019 Posts: 8 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	I’m guessing here, but the width of a ship at 6x mag should be 4x the width at 1.5 mag. So if you measure width (or height) in ticks at 1.5 you might be able to multiply them by 4 and use them in the RAOBF. You could test this with a ship that is close comparing 1.5 mag x 4 raobf range estimate and the stadimeter. I don’t know if the same simple relationship holds for ship passage time at 1.5 vs 6 mag, and also if the periscope ticks change at 1.5 vs 6 it’s also going to break the relationship to RAOBF values. This is all me thinkalouding without any in game testing. Good question though.