Nightfighters...have we been there lately?

[NoBaddy]

Lmao, no, you don't need to necessarily post something to "be there", in our minds we are constantly revisiting the ideas, but before we type, we retract the idea because as we all know, it will never happen.  Its not "crapping on your idea", its constructive criticism.

This from the guy that gave us the soon to be famous "Fart Gun" thread?? Oh PULEEZ!!

[waystin2]

The P-61 deserves a place in the AH inventory.  Whether we have true night or not.

[Baumer]

Actually there is a simple fix to the gamma issue. Try this off line and you'll see that adjusting gamma has very little impact (at least on my system).

[NOTE:] Only try this if you a comfortable changing the arena settings off-line.

Change the following settings;

• ColorDuskFog[Night]- 0/0/0
• ColorFog[Night]- 0/0/0
• ColorSky[Night]- 0/0/0
• FogVisibilityMiles- 0.500

Then adjust the arena time to something after 01:00.

Spawn onto the runway and watch the ack and look for icons adjust the gamma as you see fit. Try and fly and see if it makes any difference, on my system keeping it at a 1.0 gamma going to max doesn't make any difference to me when I see the icon.

If someone does see a difference I'd like to hear about it, thanks

<S> Baumer

[Spikes]

Not really. Japan didn't make a whole lot of planes that would make it into the game. Italy's would be either useless or uber (although we have the 262 and thats uber), Russia is pretty well covered for fighters I think, as is Germany unless you want to add all the small use, poor preformance planes. IDK about England for fighters and I KNOW bombers could use some work.

Name some major holes in the set, and lets see if its more urgant than an accurate, and functioning terrain.

Seriously? Wow.

[EDO43]

See Rule #4

Apologies to all.  I didn't think t'was that bad but I guess it was bad nuff to warrant the removal.  Sometimes the idea police get the better of me.

[Unit791]

This from the guy that gave us the soon to be famous "Fart Gun" thread?? Oh PULEEZ!!

Incorrect, this is not from the guy who wrote that thread, my friend had access to my account and did stupid stuff like sending odd messages to people and putting in that thread.  I personally do not fancy the idea of an air gun myself, for one, how would you re-arm it?

[Bronk]

Not really. Japan didn't make a whole lot of planes that would make it into the game. Italy's would be either useless or uber (although we have the 262 and thats uber), Russia is pretty well covered for fighters I think, as is Germany unless you want to add all the small use, poor preformance planes. IDK about England for fighters and I KNOW bombers could use some work.

Name some major holes in the set, and lets see if its more urgant than an accurate, and functioning terrain.

Sweet jebus. Pick up a book please.

[Nemisis]

Honestly, you should really stop making posts like this.  All it does is show you have absolutely no clue at all about fighter planes or probably anything else for that matter.  Please, read a book and learn something.


ack-ack

As I said "name some major holes in the set and lets see if its more urgant that accurate, functioning terrain".

I don't concider an obscure plane with 100 examples produced to be important to the plane set. And I do admit I don't know what planes would make it into the game. I was simply stating that the problem isn't that the USA has too many planes. I suppose you could argue that point, but really its just an opinion, same as a lot of the stuff in these boards.

And ack ack, I'm willing to learn, but really you should say more than "Please, read a book and learn something". Perhaps a list of books and manuels you concider to be appropriate. Can't really tell me to do something and provide no tools to do it with.

[Motherland]

If you want it picked apart,

Not really. Japan didn't make a whole lot of planes that would make it into the game.
Ki 43, nearly 6,000 produced, Japanese Army's equivalent of the A6M
G4M, nearly 2,500 produced, Japan's workhorse bomber throughout much of the war
A6M3, Mid-war A6M variant
Just to name a few... not a big Pacific guy myself

Italy's would be either useless or uber (although we have the 262 and thats uber),
Not sure where you got this from, Italy was effectively out of the war in 1943, it never produced any 'uber' aircraft.
However, as parts of the Italian planeset we are missing,
CR.42, Italy's main fighter up through 1941, 1,800 built
C.200, monowing fighter replacement for CR.42, 1,100 built
G.50, monowing fighter replacement for CR.42, also sold to Finland, almost 800 built
G.55, the best of Italy's last generation of fighters, about equal in performance to the 109G, 274 built
BR.20, one of Italy's main bombers at the beginning of the war, 600 built
SM.79, Italy's workhorse 3-engined aircraft, 1,300 built

 Russia is pretty well covered for fighters I think,
This is the most ridiculous claim you've ever made perhaps, the Russian fighter set is a skeleton at best. As far as important fighters go, it's missing;
I-153, 3,400 built
LaGG-1/3 (predecessor to the La-5 series), 6,200 built
MiG-1/3, 3,100 built
Yak-1, 8,100 built
Yak-3, 4,800 built
Yak-7, 6,400 built

then of course there's the bombers;
Pe-2, 11,400 built
Tu-2, 2,200 built
and others....

 as is Germany unless you want to add all the small use, poor preformance planes.

haha low use
He-111, 6,500 built, Germany's main bomber throughout the opening stages of the war,
Do-17, 2,100 built, though much of that production was obsolete at the war's start,
Ju-52, 4,800 built, essentially the German C-47, highly successful civilian aircraft and workhorse wartime transport/bomber,
Do 217, 1,700 built, one of Germany's main mid-war bombers,
Ju 188, 1,200 built, another one of Germany's mid-war types

then of course there's still a multitude of variants that would be nice, such as the Ju 87G-1/2

[Karnak]

Not really. Japan didn't make a whole lot of planes that would make it into the game.

I'm going to give you a list of aircraft and I want you to look them up, preferably in books, but the internet will do as well.  All of these aircraft would have a place in Aces High and some of them would actually do quite well.

A6M3 "Zeke"
B6N "Jill"
B7A "Grace"
D4Y "Judy"
G3M "Nell"
G4M "Betty"
H6K "Mavis"
H8K "Emily"
J1N "Irving"
J2M "Jack"
Ki-21 "Sally"
Ki-43 "Oscar"
Ki-44 "Tojo"
Ki-45 "Nick"
Ki-46-III "Dinah"
Ki-48 "Lily"
Ki-49 "Helen"
Ki-61-II "Tony"
Ki-100
Ki-102 "Randy"
N1K1-J "George"
P1Y "Frances"


All of those Japanese aircraft would be valid additions to Aces High, some would see significant use in the MA.

[Nemisis]

Some would, I agree. But really I don't see much point to the A6M3 (we already have 2 of them). I do realize your just giving me a list of planes that would be acceptable in the game, what I was kind of asking was, would you give me a list of planes you want in the game? Not counting older planes (ki43 compared Ki44 or 45), its not THAT large of a list.

[Karnak]

For LWMA purposes, I'd list these:

A6M6
B6N2
B7A2
D4Y (any version)
H8K2
J2M3
J2M5
Ki-43-IIIb
Ki-44-II (you didn't do your homework)
Ki-61-II
Ki-100
Ki-102
N1K1-J
P1Y1

For earlier arenas and scenarios the following are needed:

A6M3 (just because it is a variant of an airframe we already have doesn't mean we don't need it)
D3A2
G4M2
Ki-21
Ki-43-I-Ko
Ki-43-II
Ki-45
Ki-61-I
Ki-61-I-Ko

[Nemisis]

OK. Thanks. I'll research them as you wish me to.