Vis

[ketinkrad]

What Vis Setting do you use on a Fighter?

[FLS]

I don't know what you're asking. 

[Lusche]

I don't know what you're asking.  

I think I do... he's talking about the shift-F1...shft-F4 vis modes.

And you should use Full Vis Range when flying, and Ground Vis Range when explicitly looking for GV's (or you are in a GV yourself).
Medium & Short Vis Range my be sometimes applicable when there's a lot of action around, but if you are having constantly frame rate issues, tweaking graphic settings is the better way to go.

[FLS]

Thanks Lusche, I always use full and I tend to forget we have other options.

[trotter]

Question, Lusche: do the vis ranges affect anything other than items on the ground/horizon distance? i.e., do they influence how far you can see the specks of enemy cons?

I've been on medium vis in a fighter for as long as I can remember, simply because of the logic that when in fighter mode I don't really care about seeing GV's at extra long range, nor do I care if I can see a CV or enemy field at 18 miles away instead of 15 (or however much extra distance full vis gives). But if it influences air contact visible range...I'll have to go to full vis.

[Lusche]

Question, Lusche: do the vis ranges affect anything other than items on the ground/horizon distance? i.e., do they influence how far you can see the specks of enemy cons?

I think they are affecting only landscape, structures & GVs, but I'm not 100% sure

[McDeath]

I'm pretty sure what it affects is the distance at which objects on the ground are rendered, as the Snail said just in different words