Norden Sight & Perk Buffs

[Pepino]

With perk bombers near, what about having a harder norden sight in perk bombers?. I'm thinking in WB style norden, where you had to fly straight for a while till the thing stabilizes, and any banking provoked a missadjustment on the thing.

I propose this because:

• You would need some navigation to have a good lining on the target. Buff life would be more interesting.
• This would affect only to dedicated buff drivers, since the other ones will be usually spending their perk points in fighters. IMO, devoted buff drivers would like this, but maybe this would p*$$ off the rest of the crew.
• When in a perk buff, I doubt anyone will be doing low attack missions on enemy fields. I think perk buffs will be 35+ K, so hardening the thing a bit seems not unfair, from my point of view.

Just €0.02

Cheers,

Pepe

[Greg 'wmutt' Cook]

I agree that the bombing needs a little tweeking ni the realism department.  The problem is to balance the realism with what the players will put up with.  During WWII, waves of hundreds of bombers were sent to attack targets because that was what the job required, if a lone bomber could have inflicted enough damage (by pinpoint accuracy, or by bomb damage) they would have sent them, like we do, largely solo.  So HTC, in order to make bombing a useable part of the game, has to make 1 bomber do the damage that many did in real life.  Couple that with the fact that the lone buff pilot has to do the job of all 10 crewmembers, and it is a wounder any of us are willing to do it at all.   I for one would love to see a much more realistic bombsite / bombfall model.  One that takes into account wind, and doesn't have the pinpoint accuracy that we enjoy now, but I don't know what it will do to the game.

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Greg 'wmutt' Cook
332nd Flying Mongrels

[Pepino]

That is why I think this only applied to perk bombers. The usual rides would not be hampered, and only the one willing to spend perk points in a buff will be "enjoying" the feature.

The assumption is that everyone willing to spend perk points in a buff would like to have a more challenging model.

Cheers,

Pepe

[PakRat]

I agree completely with wmutt. Nicely said.

I would also like a more realistic buff but the reality is that people take anything they can and whine about it. Make a buff that is *harder* to bomb with a perk and just wait for the howls. The other side is realistically, few would take a buff that is harder to bomb with to a target if there is something more guaranteed to inflict damage.

I think buffs could really be an important part of this and the other sims. The problem is that the free for all command structure makes good organized buff runs rare. I think the Dickweeds probably do it best. (<S> )

Not sure but what might be a better way to perk bombers would be to create some with real tactical advantages - The Mosquito with its speed and the B-29 with its payload. Now if we olny had reservoirs and dams - then we could also get a dambuster loadout for the Lancaster and go drown those damn rooks and bishops!  

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