400m effective, 500m absolute. Will not completely kill redlining, but will stunt it pretty good and also NOT screw over real snipers who shoot from outside the redline. My personal belief is that any shorter would completely kill the role due to the lack of spots on most maps in the 2-300m range.

Look, the lowest I'd be willing to go is 350m effective, it's a sniper rifle, it should rightfully be the longest range weapon in the game. it is a VERY fine line between getting rid of redliners and snipers outside having a good choice in locations to use, so they're not as predictable. This is just the best I can figure that comes halfway between the two.

I'm just concerned about the role itself to be honest man, draw distance is a technical part of the game I'm just not concerned with, especially when I can be 350+m out n still be found rather easily by anyway who takes a minute, even by a non sniper.. And even if draw distance was the same for everything(will never be for a fg, due to the lack of ads for it, so it'd have to render an entire dom map and all activity almost), if they position themselves correctly, you won't see anything unless they're skylining their head, which'll just be a tiny dot at that range that you'd probably miss trying to quick scan for them.

Snipers are to an extent, predictable just due to map design. Where's he gonna go? Spot where he has a great view. Where are people when they get shot? There. Ok, that blocks this 3/4 of the map off. If you've been playing for awhile, those 2 things are enough to find n kill a sniper, with the already limited non redline positions unless the sniper is VERY creative.