After all the talk about radar lately on the boards, I was wondering if we could get your ideas on what it should or should not do in your game. I remember mentioning something on channel 1 the other day when you were in the arena, asking you if there were any plans on modifying the way the radar works in the main arena. You said something to the effect of "there has to be some way to warn the other side", which is completely understandable.
That got me to thinking. (dangerous huh?
) What if you coded some way for the country under attack to recieve a warning in the text buffer when X number of planes got within a certain distance of the field? And did something with the bar and dot radar while in-flight.
The mission planner in this game is way cool. My squad and I use it almost every night. We do all kinds of historical attacks:
Sometimes we get some P47 d30's heavy with 1000lbers and rockets to kill the VH and acks, couple of P47d11's for cap, and B26's to clean up the hangars.
Sometimes we do a German Jabo run, 190A8's with 30mm cannon for deacking, 190F8's to help with hangars, then some JU88's to clean up hangars.
What I'm saying is that we try to be creative with the mission planer, last night after a few field captures, we just did a few KI61 fighter sweeps with it.
But, As cool and useful as your mission planner is, it is useless unless you have some big numbers, or the baddies are asleep. For example, last night the bishops tried an NOE B17 attack all the way around the back of the knights home island. These poor guys flew a long way for this, what would have been a brilliant HQ attack without the bar radar, was a failure-from-the-start deathfest.
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Here is a screenshot of last sundays event in the SEA:
(More about this event
here)
I was leading the axis to capture a field to the west, the allies were on the way to capture the field that we upped from. Neither side knew what the other one was doing, there was no enemy radar, we didn't know we were this close to running into each other til after the event. The possibility of this flavor of stuff in the MA would really be nice, IMHO. I know the main arena is not an Historical Arena and should not be, but can't we swing the pendulum halfway between furball arena and Historical arena? Seems now it is way closer to being a furball arena than anything else, not that there's anything wrong with furballing, I do it a lot myself, I just wish the MA could be more friendly to guys who like to do organized stuff. I feel like this is caused almost entirely by the radar we have.
The point of all this jibberish? Well, congrats on the mission planner, and, Are there any plans on toning down the Main Arena radar?
[This message has been edited by hblair (edited 06-06-2001).]
