Add the option to turn altitude meter back to FPS

[storm folio]

It's such a small change and we already had it. It's just really useful to have that added fidelity when your ground hugging.

[storm folio]

@desert prism Any reason why this would be a negative?

[severe cypress]

Maybe just add a decimal place when the number is single digit

[zenith temple]

like the mod?

[desert prism]

Not easily calculable into estimating altitude over a given time

[storm folio]

Ok, cool, but at that point you can just... not use it?

That's why I said option, not completely revert it.

[desert prism]

Besides, FPM is plenty precise enough due to the calculation being done over a long time period, you don't need FPS, and no one in real life uses FPS

[storm folio]

Sure, but this isn't real life, it's a video game and having it isn't negatively impacting because if you don't like it, you can just not use it.

There's no downside to having in the game

[desert prism]

I also see no upside.

You do not gain additional precision, you instead lose precision, similar to how M/S is less precise than FPM. There's no precedent for using FPS in real life. FPS is hard to calculate into a given altitude over a distance of time.

I see no reason to add this, it gives no distinct advantage nor does it accommodate a different measurement system like Metric, it's just a worse version of Imperial

[storm folio]

Then don't use it, again. Just because you don't have a usecase for it doesn't mean others cannot. Your arguement is like saying I don't enjoy vanilla, so I don't want vanilla in stores.

Other people may need it for things that you may not. If there genuinely was no use for it like you said, people wouldn't have made a mod for it. If there was zero use for it, it would not have upvotes.

[desert prism]

The only mod I'm aware of that modifies how altitude and rate of ascent/descent is changed was made for metric because metric is too imprecise, especially for ground hugging, whilst FPM is and it's largely unneeded for that, it only works due to a quirk of the game treating metric and imperial the same when displaying it.

You're also starting to lean into fallacious arguments. "If you don't like it, then don't use it" is a common argument used when people don't have a valid response against an argument or criticism. "Your argument is like saying I don't like vanilla, so I don't want vanilla in stores" is a false equivalence. Vanilla is a type of flavor ascribed to food items, which cannot be associated with measurement systems for aviation.

I'm all for keeping unnecessary cruft out of the game, so unless there is a situation where FPS would be preferred and not absurdly niche or otherwise capable of being done with FPM, I don't want this in the game.

[storm folio]

It's not a falacy to say that just because you don't desire something, that it doesn't mean that no one else can. You're arguing the fact that no one, no one at all would want this in the game and that it should not be in it. I'm saying that that's not true at all.

This is going in circles, so I'll just let the dev team decide

I'm not going to be continuing any further. I need to do stuff today.

[desert prism]

I understand people want this in the game, I just do not think this would be providing any worthwhile addition, and am against it.

[zenith temple]

M/S is less precise than FPM
bro what

[desert prism]

1 M/S is equivalent to 197fpm, 2 is equivalent to 394fpm, this is a vast gap between the two values.

FPM is vastly more precise since it has a significantly higher resolution of data.

[dull knot]

when im sea hugging i just divide my FPM by multiples of 60 to convert to FPS
for example if im at 20 ft at -30 FPM i can easily convert that to -0.5 FPS, meaning i have 40 seconds before i reach 0 feet
i had to get used to it but i enjoy the finer control and higher data resolution as Senhara mentioned

[storm folio]

When I have my hands full flying, notching and trying not to die math on the fly is a bit hard

[severe cypress]

the only time it matters is when you specifically have nothing else to do but watch your altimeter

[dull knot]

maybe it varies from person to person but i can do that rough math pretty much instantaneously in my head granted im not actively trying to avoid a missile like 2nm away

[storm folio]

Disgraphia can be a bitch at times

[wide rapids]

reminder that this suggestion was for an option in settings to change this, if you don't want it then you could just not turn it on

you control the buttons you press, yk?

[trail pawn]

i agree with this, if im 50 Ft above the ground and im decending by 200 FpM them ive got approx 15 seconds to either correct or hit the drink, never have i needed a level of precision such as decimals