How come elevated AA doesn't get a range advantage?

It does, for that exact reason. Pretty sure everything that's AA uses spherical range determination, not cylindrical.

It'll be hard to notice, and appreciate, a ground indicator for range when the thing you're targeting also isn't on the ground.

I, don't know the game mechanics well enough to fully contest the Thresher thing because I thought it was a timed fuse flak cannon that wasn't affected by gravity so it would use a sphere?

I also thought missiles had a flight time which is why they where spherical, but I could be confused with other RTS type mechanics

quote: I also thought missiles had a flight time which is why they where spherical, but I could be confused with other RTS type mechanics

Zsword

Missiles do have a flight time, but this is not the main factor that determines their range. There is a cylindrical cutoff limiting where they can go, and this is independent from their flight time. Their flight time is determined by fuel - once they run out of fuel, they fall out of the sky, but this is not a particularly common way for a missile to go.

The cylindrical range makes it easier to determine how far from the launcher a missile can go without having to account for course adjustments, doubly so since some missiles can hit both air and ground. Cylindrical range would look weird on a laser, but it's less noticeable on missiles and more convenient.

Weird, I swear I've seen that work before..? But sure enough, I just tried it now and yeah, it doesn't work. I wonder if at some point I enabled some widget that does that, and now it's not enabled? In any case, seeing the range of planned structures would be a really nice nice-to-have.