Future Adjustments to Sailor Equipment - High Magnification Telescope

Ahoy Captains!

After much deliberation, feedback from players, monitoring of its capabilities and its dominance in PvP encounters, an adjustment to the High Magnification Telescope (HMT) Sailor Equipment will be instated during the update to Seven Wonders: Chapter 2.5

This change will not affect a ships firing range with the HMT and will only be apparent when a skill or item is increasing a ship's cannon fire range while using it. In these instances there will be a narrower range where max damage and hit probability will occur requiring a more precise distance to be kept by the attacker in order to fully unleash the HMT's full capabilities consistently. This change will be proportional to the amount of increase given by these skills or items.

A visualization of the changes can be seen below:

After the change, this will also lead to cannon power and hit probability being lower than normal for closer range fire as this is adjusted based on the difference between the max damage/hit probability distance (which has been narrowed when using increased range effects) and the ships firing distance.

-Team Uncharted Waters