Cannon accuracy

MarkLT, on 13 September 2010 - 07:13 AM, said: Yeah I think there is a HUGE misunderstanding from some people about what the OP is trying to say.
What he is saying is wherever the turret is pointed at the time the round is fired the round will follow a straight flight path from the turret.
What we have in WoT is sometimes the shells just magically fly out of the turret at weird angles, even when stationary.
Unknownone has experienced, as I'm sure all of you have, one of my biggest 'peaves' about this game. On flat ground, stationary, aiming at a target about 200m in front of me my shell will, quite often, hit the ground about 50-75m in front of me. That SHOULD NOT be possible EVER. I can understand missing the target at great distance because my accuracy was off a bit and is exacerbated by the distance I am from the target but never should the shell magically come out of the turret at any other angle than straight where the turret is pointed. And it does a lot, especially when moving. Hell when circling an enemy I have seen a shells hit the ground not even 5 meters away from me when the turret is aimed at the target.
I think the best way to explain what we are talking about is the small caliber vja guns that shoot 5(?) rounds per squeeze of the trigger. I'm sure most of you are familiar with these from driving light tanks like the Pz II and BT-2. You have the turret aimed at the enemy and when you pull the trigger each shell comes flying out at completely different angles acting more like a shotgun. Now I know that each shell is not gonna follow the same flight path as the previous because of recoil but come on.... COME ON!! Its comical really, seeing all those rounds flying every which way. Its like the turret has a small kink at the end as is spinning like a hand drill.
So to sum it this isn't about turret bounce or stabilizers its about the rounds acting like like wiffle balls when they should be acting like baseballs.