Horizon walk up

[angriff]

Ok so you spent all this time making this a realistic sailing game and open ocean.  It looks great but you blink in ships at a distance suddenly and fully.  They are way off and POP they are fully in sight.  You should make an animation that the ships sort of start under the water and move up like coming over the horizon.   This would make the pretty game even prettier.

[Cpt Blackthorne]

I've not noticed this. To me it does look like that are slowly appearing over the horizon...so small that it's hard to click on them at times.

[BungeeLemming]

there is a fix render distance after which ships get displayed on your client.

The OP is right. Ships *pop* in and out of view.

 

It happened multiple times to me that I suddenly faced off multiple enemy vessels within good range of interception. The most interesting W-T-F moments I had in game..

 

The suggestion is a goo thing and I sure hope we could get something in game which might even simulate the curvanature. Means we see masts first and the rest of the vessel the closer it gets.

[The Spud]

I thought this was not the case some months ago? I have noticed this too...

[Skully]

Sounds similar to: http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/13862-increase-view-distance-again/?p=254519

 

I think admin at some point said he was worried about performance, because you would not only need to do the ships, but also the land.