Personal Combat Logs

[Lusche]

Similar to those you can find on the special events site.  But just as a personal version, generated and saved on your computer:


16:22 LW Orange, Compello: Snailman takes off in a TA-152H from A158
16:41 Snailman shoots down Player X in a B-17
16:43 Snailman helps Player Y shooting down Player X in a B-17
16:59 Snailman rearms at A150
17:12 Shot down by Player Z in a P-51B


Even better would be additional location entries mentioning the closest base at a particular incident, i.e:

17:12 Shot down by Player Z in a P-51B near P148

This way one could really recreate the history of a specific sortie and be something like a true combat report. Of course, I can think of other additional details (damage report, taking off as part of a mission, etc) too.


These optional Combat Logs would be saved in a simple text (or maybe .csv) format

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[Krusty]

That's a very interesting idea. It's one thing I rather liked from TargetWare (although theirs was more a debugging log, too technical). It might be hard to designate where, maybe have locations broken down by sector?

Can HTC determine map sector from logs?

[Guppy35]

Maybe something a little more player originated. 

You have landed successfully.  "Write combat report?"

If yes, a template comes out similar to a wartime combat report and you can type it in and save it to a folder as a text file, like a film.

That way it isn't necessarily every flight, but a player can type up the memorable ones to either save for themselves or post on the boards if they choose to.

[Raphael]

Maybe something a little more player originated. 

You have landed successfully.  "Write combat report?"

If yes, a template comes out similar to a wartime combat report and you can type it in and save it to a folder as a text file, like a film.

That way it isn't necessarily every flight, but a player can type up the memorable ones to either save for themselves or post on the boards if they choose to.

yeah but the way things go i can see a lot of people writing "that stupid hotard hoed me 3 times then ran away leaving me with bad engine."

but i like those wishes!

[steely07]

+1 Lusche and +1 Guppy, something like this would be great, perhaps also an option to associate a film with it?, if we're typing the report in, could we have a line for "refer to film xxx.ahf"

Salute

Steely

[GNucks]

That'd make finding specific events in Films easier. +1 

[MachFly]

+1

[oboe]

Nice idea, great additions. +1

[gyrene81]

Maybe something a little more player originated. 

You have landed successfully.  "Write combat report?"

If yes, a template comes out similar to a wartime combat report and you can type it in and save it to a folder as a text file, like a film.

That way it isn't necessarily every flight, but a player can type up the memorable ones to either save for themselves or post on the boards if they choose to.

that would be cool. 

[Pigslilspaz]

Great idea Snail, +2

[APDrone]

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,172810.0.html

And something that would extract events and put them in a newspaper-type layout on a webpage somewhere..

Something along the lines of ..


"Field a34 was the sight of many battles during the evening of May 25.  The base changed  hands 4 times as the Rook and Knight forces savagely fought."  Over 3,000 aircraft and 400 GVs were destroyed during the bloodbath."  

[gyrene81]

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,172810.0.html

And something that would extract events and put them in a newspaper-type layout on a webpage somewhere..

Something along the lines of ..


"Field a34 was the sight of many battles during the evening of May 25.  The base changed  hands 4 times as the Rook and Knight forces savagely fought."  Over 3,000 aircraft and 400 GVs were destroyed during the bloodbath."  

why? who would actually take notice besides a hand full who are fixated on "that's kewl"...if personal logs were available, the twinkie eater squads could do their own compilation on their own sites.

[bbosen]

+1 Lusche, Guppy, and Steely

[badhorse]

I agree. Good ideas

[Penguin]

Perhaps a dog-tag system like in Bad Company 2.  If you kill someone, you get their dog-tags (or wings, but the specific item is irrelevant), which you would keep in the O'Club.  You would not get multiple dog tags for killing someone multiple times, just one dog-tag per person.  If you clicked on the dog-tag, it would bring up a little card with infomation about the date, time, location, arena, respective planes, weapons used, and the damage dealt to you and the other player.  An algorithm would calculate this, and create a score; the color of the dogtag would vary based on this score (i.e. Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum), and one could see it if one were to click on the dogtag.

-Penguin