Wreckage!

[WWhiskey]

Yes  wreckage,  crashed airplanes littering the field,  blown apart tanks  all around a town or base!  at least as long as the craters last!  the craters don't seem to have an effect on anything other than cosmetic value, could we  have wreckage do the same thing?
I see wreckage falling from the sky after a plane goes down, and tank turrets spinning in the air after the kill is registered so I am guessing  there must be a time allotted to this action?

[Raphael]

+1

[SmokinLoon]

Wouldn't having the wreckage of all the tanks and aircraft hang out on the battlefield of X amount of time also tax the servers and pc's that much more?

[B-17]

two things to say to this:

OP: there sorta is already wreckage when a plane is shot down. only when you shoot off a piece of the airplane, though. when it explodes, theres a few pieces of flaming something that flies away from the big explosion.

2:

Wouldn't having the wreckage of all the tanks and aircraft hang out on the battlefield of X amount of time also tax the servers and pc's that much more?

maybe an option to turn that off? or at least turn it down, like the viewing of ground scenery, from .5 to 4?

[GNucks]

Wreckage could be something that is not kept track of on the server side to save resources. If you just show up to a fight that's been going on for a while you wouldn't see any of the battle effects you weren't near enough to witness happen.

<-- Not a game designer/programmer, but if one asked me how to do it that'd be my guess.

[WWhiskey]

Wouldn't having the wreckage of all the tanks and aircraft hang out on the battlefield of X amount of time also tax the servers and pc's that much more?

I don't know,, if they are like bomb craters, then I would guess not but I don't know, however if it is possible, it would be nice to have,, not wanting to slow the game down tho,, just more eye candy!

[Charge]

Yeah, or if not wreckages at least flaming engines and parts flying around from planes that smash to the ground at oblique angles and from planes that blow in the air...

-C+

[321BAR]

so my graphics force a disco? -1

[badhorse]

+1

[WWhiskey]

so my graphics force a disco? -1

like I said,, not if it hurts the game,  but for a short time say 10 minutes or something heck yes, as long as it doesn't hurt the ability to play!

[Wiley]

The problem is, displaying more stuff=more work for the computer.  No way around it.

That plus in some vulch scenarios you wouldn't be able to see the runway because of wreckage...  I'm going to go with -1.

Wiley.

[iron650]

at least as long as the craters last!  the craters don't seem to have an effect on anything other than cosmetic value, could we  have wreckage do the same thing?

I have driven a GV through a crater. The craters don't seem to do anything more than make marks in the ground.
+1

[Skyguns MKII]

 

[BowHTR]

two things to say to this:

OP: there sorta is already wreckage when a plane is shot down. only when you shoot off a piece of the airplane, though. when it explodes, theres a few pieces of flaming something that flies away from the big explosion.

2:
maybe an option to turn that off? or at least turn it down, like the viewing of ground scenery, from .5 to 4?

re-read the wish. He is asking if it would be possible for the wreckage to remain on the ground for a little while just like bomb craters do.

[LCADolby]

It'll make too much of a mess and kill the frame rate the way some of you base taking horde guys throw your pixel lives away...

In 5 mins an airbase will look like a junk yard