Complete the removal of the mouse

[MaSonZ]

I demand HiTech take away people's tape and sharpies.

 

...And phones to keep away "teh spiez!!1!"^©     


wrongway

I need my high defletion shots...if it was reality i would deal with my lack of view over the nose. AH puts many games to shame as far as reality goes. My tape and sharpie doesnt kill it all.
 

[Delirium]

It looks like the days of using a mouse cursor as a gunsight are over.

Thanks HTC and thank you, RTHolmes, for posting a great alternative. 

[thndregg]

One solution (and one I'd personally like to see anyway) is to force all aircraft to use their historical gunsights and not allow them to be changed. Then players can't create a blank gunsight file, so trying to use the mouse cursor will instead clutter their sight picture. For aircraft which are recorded to have used several different sights (IE, F4U-1s had I believe the N6 installed in the factory but many units exchanged them for the Mk.VIII once in combat) provide a hangar option to select which of the sights to use.

I like this.

[SlapShot]

Hell, just take a sharpie and put a dot where the center of the gunsight is, THEN adjust the seat.

In the seat, looking forward, you should not be able to raise the seat any higher than the center of if pipper at the top edge of the glass sight.

[lulu]

I like to draw gun-sights for planes.

 

[Oddball-CAF]

In the seat, looking forward, you should not be able to raise the seat any higher than the center of if pipper at the top edge of the glass sight.

where's the "realism" in that idea? The better cockpits gave the pilots in them a much less limited view
than what you are describing here.
 

[RTHolmes]

how would a pilot raise themselves 12" in their seat while pulling several Gs, applying 40lbs pressure on the stick and maintaining precise control on the rudder pedals?

werent they starpped pretty tight into the seat too?

how much adjustment was there in the seat height?

[Krusty]

It's a non-issue to all but a select group of the lame ones.

Why make policy for something that doesn't hurt anybody else and only impacts those select rare minority?

Especially when the policy you request doesn't stop anything?

[RTHolmes]

well my autohide request means that you still get the mouse for picking up gv supps and using the clipboard, but without having to move the mouse out the way everytime. whats wrong with that?

[Reaper90]

Speakin' of "gamey", let's do away with TrackIR, too.

"gamey" is using hat switches to look around and not using track IR.... I've looked at a lot of pictures of WWII cockpits and haven't seen, or read accounts, of pilots using any sort of switchgear what-so-ever to move their own heads. 

[Reaper90]

how would a pilot raise themselves 12" in their seat while pulling several Gs, applying 40lbs pressure on the stick and maintaining precise control on the rudder pedals?

werent they starpped pretty tight into the seat too?

how much adjustment was there in the seat height?

Agree 100%. The notion of people raising their head position to the max available while in the middle of a high-g turn so as to get a better look over the nose is gamey as crap. G loading should force you down into the seat as well as induce the progressive black out.....

[badhorse]

It IS a game though. I don't use the mouse like a gunsight but, if there are people that do it's their thing I guess.

I agree.  Please at least make it optional.

[AWwrgwy]

I agree.  Please at least make it optional.

Put a dot on your monitor.

I've always read of pilots lowering their seats to the max because they didn't want to get shot.

Silly pilots, worrying about death when they could be getting a better view instead. Priorities.

 


wrongway

[badhorse]

well my autohide request means that you still get the mouse for picking up gv supps and using the clipboard, but without having to move the mouse out the way everytime. whats wrong with that?

Yeah right. I love the new process.  Turret gets taken out.  Start slapping around your mouse. Oh yeah, Mouse was removed. Bring up clipboard so you've got a mouse. Click on your supplies. Clipboard up or down, lose the mouse again.
Bring back the H key. You've always been able to remove the mouse. What's wrong with that? 

[AWwrgwy]

Yeah right. I love the new process.  Turret gets taken out.  Start slapping around your mouse. Oh yeah, Mouse was removed. Bring up clipboard so you've got a mouse. Click on your supplies. Clipboard up or down, lose the mouse again.
Bring back the H key. You've always been able to remove the mouse. What's wrong with that? 

I learned yesterday, from reading these very message boards, that all you need to do to pick up gv supplies is




































PRESS ENTER




And by jingies, IT WORKS!!

 






wrongway
(Not shouting, but celebrating)