After reading the posts from DaddyAck about night time, wind weather, and the numerous, sometimes heated responses, And also after seeing Hitech's reply....I still am in favor for night and weather and wind.
In AH1 you had to pay attention to where the wind was comming from. Take off down wind in fully loaded Lancs and you quickly ran out of runway. So there had to be a little pre-flight planning done.
I don't think I ever saw rain on the wind screen, but the lower cloud layer definitely added some wrinkles to both offense and defense. (bombers couldn't see through the clouds, Ftrs couldn't see the bombers) Oh you knew the enemy was there because of DAR, but it added a little more ..."difficulty" if you will.
The number one gripe I hear about Night Time is that it will be used to "sneak around and hide from fighting...", or something to that effect. Granted, there may be some of that, but I think the majority (and I may be speaking out of turn) of the people that want night time back actually enjoyed the added difficulty associated with flying at night. It's harder to bomb acurately, harder to find the bad guys, much harder for the GV's to find each other, or for the manned ack or shore batterys to find the enemy.
I know this horse has been reapeatedly beaten and is completly unrecognizable to it's friends and family, but IMHO I think that night, clouds and mabey even some light rain would be a fun addition to what is already the best flt sim game on the net.
Sorry HiTech for dragging a closed thread into this post, but it looked to me that there were more replys in favor of the additions than against.
However, all of this being said.....You are still the Boss, what you say goes, and I respect that....even if I don't fully agree with it.
Just my thoughts.
Respectfully
NAVCAD
"Life is tough......But it's tougher when you're stupid..."