Some Ideas to make game better.........

[Beefcake]

Here are some ideas that I wanted to share with the AH staff and as well as all of you.

K, first off, when will we get a full 24 day in the arena? I mean we have day, dusk, night, and dawn. I mean how cool would that be, flying a mission at nite. I mean we could have lights on the planes, lights at the bases, hey, maybe even search lights that scan the skys for bombers. Anyway I think night time would rule.  

Another idea I had was weather. We already have clouds, why not have rain? I think it would be pretty neat to have rainstorms in certian areas of the map. This would be cool, as flying would be a pain. This could even shut down a aifield. Even cooler would be thunderstorms. Having lightning, or even hail. Maybe in the future we could have SNOW STORMS heheheh.

K here is another one. What about flak? I think would REALLY make the game interesting. Think about, bombers would have to fly above 20k, and so would fighters. And it should hurt ANYTHING it hits. Bascily if a fighter chased a bomber into a "flak field', then the fighter would be at risk of getting hit by it's on flak batteries.

Anyway I have somemore ideas, but I'll save em for a rainy day hehehe.

Capn't Beefcake

"AHHHHHHHHHHH we're going swimming"

[Bull]

While were on the topic of weather.....

Haze, down to say a mile or so vis at or below the haze layer. Normally haze layer around large cities in the summer goes up to 8K or so.......

Overcast skies with different ceilings..Be real fun to see 100ft overcast with mountains sticking out of the tops.

Fog....etc....

Bull

[AKDejaVu]

The last thing I want to see in the arena is Night-time.

[Dago]

I remember flying in a WB arena when they made it dark. Was very weird.  Was fun for a few minutes, but it would grow old very fast.
We couldnt find the airfield or runway to land, couldnt see other planes to shoot at them.  Not much fun after a couple minutes when the novelty wore off.  Bombers couldnt see the targets to bomb either.  A brief 3 minute night might be interesting, anything more than that would probably be too much.
Dago

[Replicant]

Hi all

Would love to see detailed airfields - hangars, dispersals etc., and also bridges and other ground targets for low level fighter/bombers and hi alt coord bombing.

'Nexx'

[Swoop]

Weather:  Love to see detailed weather but would it slow things down too much?

Night:  I agree with Dago.  Things would get boring, maybe an hour long night so's buffs have time for a crack at enemy HQ......
However, if you add night-time you gotta also add:
Nav lights for planes that can be turned off (don't want lights in combat).
Landing lights.
Runway lights that, again, can be turned off (no lights when bombers about.....)
Searchlights, preferably manned by players (in conjuntion with flak?).
Night fighters with radar. (ooer....110s just found a place in the great scheme of things)

Actually, I'd like to see a whole new map.....with each side on an island (and more countries so's ganging up does't happen as much). This makes a mission to enemy territory all the more dangerous and requires more co-operation, especially if ground vehicles could be transported by air.

With ground vehicles coming in you gotta add roads which are faster to drive along than overland.  With seas and rivers you gotta add bridges, give's us buff drivers more targets.  

Swoop


[This message has been edited by Swoop (edited 03-11-2000).]