Is Penetrating Vision a bit OP?

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by ericthered

Yeah, it probably needs the "exponential range increase" treatment. Though at some point that lets you start seeing through the earth...

Which in and of itself isn't terrible, as your vision still suffers its other ordinary limits -- like being unable to resolve any details or even differentiate objects when they're 8000 miles away. (I can see stars that are >10,000 light-years distant, for all the good that does in my knowing what goes on there.) A character that's going to get any use out of that level of Penetrating Vision is also going to need Telescopic (at least 15 levels counting the "zoom in" bonus, or another 75 points).