Keeping ground targets down & icon issue

[SGTROCK]

having the ability to strafe or bomb hangers, ack, ect as they rebuilt would be great. as it stands right now we have to wait until the target is back up to 100% before taking it back down again, or am i mistaken about this? also, the icons of C47's parked behind hills and ridges are visible, from the runway, as they wait for your fields defenses to go down. while the free intel is a bonus for anyone defending a base i would rather not know about 'em until they are supposed to be seen. wow, my 1st post!

[Fury]

Hi Rock,

When a target is down, it is currently pointless to continue to shoot/bomb it because it does no additional damage to it.  You have to wait for it to be back up to 100%.  I think it would be a great idea to be able to keep a target down (i.e. a fhangar rebuilt 50% would stay down if you dropped an additional 1.5k on it) before it is completely rebuilt.

As for the dots, I read that ver 1.03 will have a fix for the M16/tank dots being visible from  miles away.  I'm not sure if the C47 has the same problem; I know that when flying low I can see C47s long before the icon comes on but I figured it was due to the size of the target and not a "bug" like the M16/tanks.  Sometimes for me it's easy to pick out a low-flying target because of the dot; and then when I get close enough I have to rely on the icon due to the target blending into the ground.  Like it's easier to see it from farther away.

Fury

[Mickey1992]

I like the idea SGT.

HT told me once that structures that are not completely destroyed will repair themselves over time.  Maybe they could apply this to rebuilding destroyed structures instead of having them go from 0% to 100% as you mentioned.

Maybe with the new smoke that is supposed to rise from destroyed buildings, the smoke would stop after the building is rebuilt back up to 50%.  Then it could be destroyed again.

Mickey

[snafu]

Hey Good post SGT   1st of many I hope.

Would be nice If HT would give all vehicles on the ground (Planes Inc) the much reduced Icon range even mabye upto an alt of 500ft (Radar Alt?).

Finally a question Why do drunks have Icons, seems totally pointless to me, apart from making them easy to spot. Far better for drunks to be iconless then you could drop them off the field and let them "sneak" into the map room. No other AI feature has them (Ack etc) so why Drunks?

Also has anyone ever parked next to the map room and let the drunks out. If you look at the entrance you see flashes when they go in (Gunfire?). Nice touch HT  

TTFN
snafu