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I've tested it but doesn't work. As I told you, I think the limitation is hardcoded someplace inside the exe (for execution, in map building mode you see everything from very far away.)

However, I've found a very interesting trick by searching on the forums.
In fact, the only objects that IL2 allows to be seen from far away are the airfields.

By placing a blank runway plate close to a static object you make the object to be seen from very far away.
It can be a hard job if you want to make big cities to be seen from far but it works wonderful.

What I've done is to place blank runway plates near the bigger buildings on the cities plus some random plates all around the cities.
That makes not all the buildings to appear from far but you've got a very nice effect.

I think it's a trick every map builder should know about.

Cheers,
N