H.T. Bring back the calibration!!!!

[Flayed1]

Hitech I have never complaned openly on the boards about anything you have done to AH1 or 2, (only anoying bugs) and very few of these. I think your doing a great job and working very hard on making this an enjoyable sim/game for as many people as possible (and here it comes) But why did you have to change the bombsight calibration to this cheasy version of it's former self?
  I have worked very hard to become a good bomber pilot  and have gotten to the point where I could calibrate that sight and almost always hit my target .
   I have been lucky enuf to be assighned the duty of bomber wing leader for the Birds of Prey and it gives me great satisfaction when some of my squadmates request that a target be blown to bits and I fight my way over to the target (usually in my 26's of doom ) and hit my target dead on and get that wonderfull praise for a job well done.  I have even begun to hit those pesky moving CV's lvl bombing.  First I was at 1 to 2k and sank 3 of em and my latest one I was at 10k, didn't sink it but took off most of the guns.

   As it stands now I almost feel as though I'm out of a job. Befor this change us buff pilots were a rare breed we actually took the time to do a certain task well.  Now anyone can bomb just as well if not better than I could.
  You have given us the exceptional B24 and I love this plane but  we now have a bomber with a heavy ord loadout  good armament and a bombsight that no longer takes any skill to use and I feel cheap when I bomb now. And just so no one says then use a smaller bomber, I would feel the same way.

  I guess to sum it up. People have to have some degree of skill to get kills in a fighter even I have some skill in them although not near what other people have. Why then take the skill out of bombing. And yes I realise that some people have trouble calibrating but then again some people can't seem to hit much with a fighter but I don't see auto locking target sights being instagated.

  Well anyway you probably get the drift and I'm sorry to be so long winded but I do feel rather strongly about this and I know there are others if not many that feel the same way.

HiTech and please give this some serious thought.

[sullie363]

HiTech, I agree with everything this man says.

We already had a lower skill involved with large bombers, it was called dive bombing.  Please do not punish all the players out there who put many hours into perfecting their calibrating skill.  The simple fact that people are good at it show that anybody could do it well, it just requires time.  Please return the calibration method to its previous form and keep it an elite ability.

[JB73]

my comments from another thread:

this statement almost invalidates you earlier comments.

the "old" way was no calibration in any way.

when the "new" way came along many gave up bombing, until they learned to dive bomb in heavies.

now the "new new" version is a comprimise between the 2, hoping in part i believe to stop the dive bombing heavies, giving them a chance to calibrate with some accuracy.

personally i dont bomb with level bombers at all (maybe less than 1% of all my sorties). i found i can not calibrate correctly, even though reading all posts, and help files posted. i dont do something right, and dont know what it is, but it basically negated bombing overall. with this "new new" way, i have a fighting chance, and welcome it.


but please dont think going back to the complicated calibration will help stop the dive bombing of heavies, it is what started it in the first place. there was NO reason to dive heavies before the complicated calibration started.







why do you feel that keeping or bring back the "old" way (only old to you, for 3 years there was NO calibration) will stop divebombing lancasters, or pull up b17's (comming in at 50 feet and yanking back to lob-bomb)??

something has to be done about the dive bombing, and low level lob bombing. if there is no reason to climb to alt andmiss with bombs, how do you "make" people change?

IMHO give them the opprotunity to level bomb somewhat of a bit more reliable, yet takes some pilot input.

[Flayed1]

I am not complaining about dive bombing large bombers although I do think it is stupid and low lvl bombing is fine in myop for that was a tactic sometimes used but with a bombsight.
   What I dislike is that now this is not much different than the old old version you speak of . You hold Y and poof auto cal.  
  I've flown several flights of bombers tonight and hit everything I droped on... Not just enuf to kill them but perfect as in no error what so ever. Wheres the challange? We have always had nme cons on our 6 trying to stop us, thats still the same and I have gotten good at killing them and still hitting my target. I had even gotten good enuf with the old system to where I could calibrate, hit target, swing around at lower speed and as tight a turn as possible recalibrate and finish target.

  Jeez if I new so many people wanted to fly bombers and hit targets so bad I would have started a weekly training course in the training arena, I have the time.

[Kev367th]

As we seem to be making things as easy as possible -

Why bother flying to target, just spawn 25 miles out at preset alt/speed.

Radar guided 20mm's next anyone?

[Overlag]

3 threads on one subject...you know its better to keep it ALL in the same place