User blog comment:Deus Gladiorum/What should be in the next Skyrim update?/@comment-4057437-20120711073637/@comment-2060279-20120711154704

Actually, the English Longbow had an effective range somewhere between 150m - 230m. The Mongol bow apparently had a confirmed kill at 500m (Yea these are statistics taken from Wikipedia and Deadliest Warrior, but still.)

Besides, I don't think anyone is playing this game for realism. I shouldn't be able to kill a mammoth by myself at all, regardless of range. Lmao how do you apply simple physics to magic? I wasn't aware studies have shown that spells dissipate after a while. This game isn't about realism, 95% of the things I do in it prove that. Realism only works when it won't make a game tedious. And a longer bow range would not make the game tedious, it'd make it significantly more fun and satisfying. The most annoying thing is that the arrows still hit the targets at long range, but they simply clip through them. That certainly doesn't happen in real life either.