ICONS

[Herc]

I don't think the WBs crowd necessarily had a problem with the reduced icon range in the HA arena.  It's just hard to get any new arena going.  You have always had the best chance of finding your friends and a good fight in the main arena.  Also, the best sim pilots typically flew in HA which had to make it intimidating to everyone else.  BTW, I think that's somewhat of a problem here in AH.  Most of the sim pilots I fight against here are good.  I haven't seen to many newbies.  I don't think the reduced icon range would be a problem if it was done in the main arena.  I don't think the resolution is good enough to get rid of them all together.  The SimGuild system sounded pretty good.  A variation on that might work well here.  I say throw it out there, it's a BETA, lets see how people react.

MG

[Shepard121]

Is it just me (could be the fact that I'm at 800x600) or would it be impossible to do a VID (Visual ID) on a plane that is over 1k away?  

I know fighter pilots can VID as far as 3-5nm, and exceptional pilots can spot planes at about 15nm (Yeager could)  Tell me how you can VID a 3x3 pixel at 4k feet (about a mile+)

I just don't think the graphics have enough resolution to make an accurate VID of a unknown or a friendly.  

If HTC decides to remove icons, I hope they only remove the enemy icons, that way you know that dot isn't one of your wingmen.  It seems real to me to see the wingman icon on, because in real life, they had radios and procedures to ascertain friendly aircraft..especially your wingmen.  

A total removal of icons is going to cause more problems than it will solve.  Removal of the enemy icons seems the right thing to do, IMHO.

Shepard

[jmccaul]

is nm nautical miles ?
if so 3-5 is pretty impressive but 15
how did he manage to id planes 3x-5x futher away than other pilots ?

[Chiggy]

One word....."ZOOM". Use the zoom function to ID planes. Reduce ICONs to appearing very close and then only plane type. I do like the idea of the transparent ICON turning more opaque as you get close though.

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William "RasRow" Behrens <TSM>
aka: "ou812" and "Chiggy Von Richtoffen"

"Abandon all hope"

[chisel]

15 miles?
FIFTEEN MILES!


 I call bulltoejam

Perhaps intuition/luck/maybe a really good guess.

The plane dots were really well done in WB most were very distinctive and you could usually tell nme from friend at long range in the HA with practice by the color flash/twinkle. Tho I often mistook the 262 for allied for some reason.