Aircraft appear as uniform bold specks across a variety of distances...

[PissyChrissy]

I'm not sure if this has been pointed out (couldn't find a thread on the topic), but in future, the devs may want to look at changing the colour which distant aircraft appear as at varying distances.

As it stands now, they appear as a bold, black speck all the way out to 9km, and the speck is the same whether the plane is 3km away, or 9km. Then past 9km, they don't appear at all.

This makes it unrealistically easy to spot distant aircraft, and it makes it impossible to judge the distance of aircraft between 3km and 9km.

(forgive my crappy paint skills, but you get the point)


This could be solved by softening the colour of the specks as they get farther away, perhaps by using transparency (because the speck would have to soften relative to it's backdrop - a light grey/blue speck against a dark green land background would defeat the purpose).