[Bartholomew Roberts]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Excuse me?? OTC is not hard-core realism... While the mod is excellent and does correct the differences between aiming over the bow as opposed to aiming over the stern, the "fix" for that is to center-mount the conns. The omnimeter in the mod is permanently attached to the text box, which is cumbersome. Like most mods for the game, it has compromises. CapnScurvy chose some elegant compromises, but they are still compromises. As a side-note, DanielCoffey re-did the sil files for most all of the ships in the mod, and did very accurate measuring of the ships, so you do have even more accurate mast / stack heights in FotRSU than even OTC had - which is also not realistic.

We did hope CapnScurvy would do an OTC version for FotRSU, but alas, he retired to the garage to work on automobiles older than I am... and more power to him! We did have plans for incorporating several more pieces of his modding work into FotRSU, but both involve the menu_1024_768.ini file, and that is a complex beast, tough to tame. We have had limited success, but alas, there are a few extra "features" we accidentally incorporated that we have to chase down yet... - there are other changes that will help lend an air of realism for the next release, and we think that most folks will like them. More later!

The key point of OTC is rectile correction and recognition manual with ship length. Without that, no proper manual targeting could be done. Stadimeter can't be used without lock on, very inefficient in distant measurement and multitargeting. While difference of aiming between bow and stem is so insignificant in NAVAL measurement. Dark waters has Raobf which works the same way as US submarine Attack Course Finder in 1920s. Probably to use the gramophone layer to make a double side attack course finder used as attack disc and raobf.