Formations

[Ghastly]

About the only thing that I can think of as being a valid objection to it would be the argument that with software flying your aircraft for you, the pilot has little to no "load" and can spend all of his time on SA, which would mean that surprise would be much less of a factor.

While I don't think I'd be likely to use such a feature, I wouldn't care if it were implemented.

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[Swatch]

Think of those missions with 40+ people in them, all taking off at the same time in the same exact place on the runway...

Oh I know, I did think of those and I know it would be an issue with collision on.  FSO is less of an issue, since there's some control already in there and one would just have to launch in intervals and rendezvous (much like R/L )  And keep in mind, I'm not really advocating turning on collisions... I was just saying that if collisions WERE on, this would be a handy feature.

And finally I think the biggest advantage to such a feature is for large bomber flights where it will allow the pilots of other planes to turn into nearly full time gunners in the box while a single bomber attempts to lead the group to target.


PS... Nice screenshots....I wonder if I have any of us C-Hawks in Formation..... *goes to look*

[splitatom]

we can still get off and most of my squadmates dont do formations becauase they cant do it me homer and turbo10  once did a good formation in an fso most of ours are random blobs within 1k of each other it would be nice

[Swatch]

we can still get off and most of my squadmates dont do formations becauase they cant do it me homer and turbo10  once did a good formation in an fso most of ours are random blobs within 1k of each other it would be nice

that is perhaps the most run on sentence i have ever seen i mean who needs periods when you can continue talking and never breath in fact i dare you to try and say that in real life if your english is bad don't take this a bad way i am just poking a little fun no worries mate  .................

/.add periods

[33Vortex]

 

Thanks for supporting the idea. I think it would add a lot to realism in FSOs, visually and tactically. It would mean a world of difference for COs and High Command, to know exactly where their guys are. Perhaps the accuracy of defensive fire from bombers would have to be tuned down a little bit to compensate for the huge concentration of fire in a defensive formation. Other than that, I see no real issues with it.

[angelsandair]

Well...

I just want to see historically accurate flyin during FSOs. Since most AHers are tools and busy being too cool to care they aren't capable of it. Not that anyone playing AH would want to spend the hours required just practicing formation flying to be able to do it. Yeah, did you fly the last FSO? Call that a formation??? Please... (Image removed from quote.)

it would be nice, but the way you are replying to it, nobody is going to think that you're opinion matters when you are being immature towards immature comments. Either dont reply to them, make it more clear, or just tell them to shut it. I'm all for the idea personally,  I hate having to mess with these sort of things

[33Vortex]

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