Custom Skins would be nice but.....

[DeeZCamp]

With Custom skins.. it would be about as usless as the current aircraft paintjobs... Now my reason for saying this is that ICONS.. negate any reasoning for even attempting to have CAMO.... you know why?.. because with them ON you are FIghting against the big COLORFULL range giving target. With ICons ON we might as well have bright pink aircraft becuase the camo serves no ACM tactical advantage. (lose sight Lose the fight) would play a BIGGER factor into the overall realism of the sim.  
 I ALWAYS hear poeple complain about how icons off would be bad and a comparison between real-life visual cues cannot be duplicated on a 2d monitor.. etc etc..  I also hear some good suggestions as far as limiting ICON RANGE....  Now  IN respect to those that think icon range should be decreased.. hey I agree.. BUT I think INSTEAD of HAVEING an icon APPEAR when the two AIRCraft are CLOSE (engaging in ACM & SA intensive flight)  is backwards... WHY would that be more real? it wouldnt... imo ... in summary of that Statement... ICONS should be on at say 6k max.. vis... then when in Close  about 2k away... ICONS OFF... (for real SA as well as A purpose for the nice Paint jobs these planes have  
  And to address all those who say.. Icons off would be disastrouis because you cant tell friend from foe.... ONLY TURN OFF ENEMY ICONS THEN....   "ALT i" 2 times... thats not hard eh?...  

Now ill wait for the Bashing against my opinion to start  

[xHaMmeRx]

Not bashing, but how do you propose to tell the difference between the friendly La-7 and the enemy La-7 in the fur-ball?  Even colored tails wouldn't be visible until extremely close range in a lot of circumstances.  And I pity anybody with a small monitor!  The system we have now may not be perfect, but until I can recognize an enemy plane for an enemy plane at reasonable distances using graphics alone, I think the icons need to stay in some form or fashion.

HaMmeR

[lasse]

I agree with you both, something has to be done about the icons, but some kind of icon is required to part friendly from enemies in a 4 spit furball !

We have 3 sides in AH Rooks, bish, and knits, why cant we reduce the icon to ONLY the chess piece, and leave the planetype out ?

This way we will get a much smaller icon.
An additional step would be to make the icon transparent, instead of the self illuminating neon sign we have now ?

This way you actually must have your SA on top all the time, or be toast  

   
The 332 "VIKING" squadron
Lasse

[ 06-08-2001: Message edited by: lasse ]