My two pence: slightly increast the BEAR one, as currently it's just not there at all. and restore all non ironsight weapons to their former glory. this would be the best solution :D
Unfortunately, I can't do that without some Krenzification. And on the BEAR, you can see a tiny bit of it, just enough to tell it's happening. I couldn't really get a good shot of it.
Using the iron sights is ONLY for jungle combat, when you could have something go wrong with a SUSAT sight. Also, the muzzleflash in empires is the same as blank-firing.
usually the flash supressor directs the flame away from the iron sight center line..... making it vedge to each side and leave a bit of vision in the midle, but there are some guns that dont.
The muzzleflashes work in a strange way, they come in at a random angle and travel away from the muzzle, using four different sprites, so basically there is nothing I can do about that, without Krenzo's assistance.
Wow, REX is a resident expert. I think the best solution would be to just lower the alpha a little, then size wouldn't really be an issue (although that could always be toned down if required).