Capturing a Port locates it's CV

[Beefcake]

no,makes no sense at all. if you capture someplace,why would you magically know where the cv or anything related to it was????

What amazes me is you think capturing a base and gaining intel doesn't make sense, yet you have a clipboard in your plane that gives up to the minute radar updates on all aircraft on the map.

[kvuo75]

how about:

once cv is spotted, it shows up on the map.. as long as someone's got eyes on it, it updates continuously, just like friendly cv's do. if nobody sees it, it just shows it's last position and perhaps a course arrow showing the last known direction. after some time with nobody spotting it, it could disappear from map again.


this could give a use for planes like pby's and such in the future also.

[HawkerMKII]

Better yet....you sink bad guy cv's its a reef till map is won or reset and map rotates back......that way no more hiding cv's or 20000000 threads about hiding cv's

[icepac]

I don't think we need the cv to suddenly announce it's presence while it is within the arena proper.

If it's outside the arena boundaries, it should show up for all to see.

[Tank-Ace]

Ice, 2hr flights are unreasonable in a game specificly tailored to quick, close-range engagments. If HTC had wanted us to fly up into a corner of the map with no bases or strat targets, they would inform us of their desires.


and I like Hawker's idea. It would aleviate some of the problem spots like P86. That said, auto-puffy needs to be turned up to the point where it is a consideration for bombers. We could also do with adding more of the guns that were mounted on our ships.

[skorpion]

+1

[grizz441]

no,makes no sense at all. if you capture someplace,why would you magically know where the cv or anything related to it was????

  Wow.

+1 For this Good Idea

[EagleDNY]

no,makes no sense at all. if you capture someplace,why would you magically know where the cv or anything related to it was????

Perhaps because you just captured the CV's HQ and land communications center with all their documents?  Intel would have a field day - all you need to know is which frequency the CV radio guys are transmitting on this week and you could DF the location as soon as they transmit.

[des506]

no,makes no sense at all. if you capture someplace,why would you magically know where the cv or anything related to it was????

well it prevents idiots dragging cv and hiding it 8-9 sectors away and not using it...+1,000,000,000

[icepac]

The cv hidden the other day was not on the map.

I searched all the grids.

Yes, there is someone who will invest the time to find CV's.

If it's still within arena boundaries, it will be easily found.

[DREDIOCK]

I like the original idea. Capture the port and you know where the CV is If nothing else what sector its in
Use it or loose it baby

[hammer]

no,makes no sense at all. if you capture someplace,why would you magically know where the cv or anything related to it was????

Because when you captured the port, you captured a copy of the operations orders which were issued to the task group. 

Regards,

Hammer

[Max6]

How about if you capture the home port of a CV, it gives up the location of that CV?

You'd still have to go to great lengths to fly across the map and sink it, so not an easy 'poof' return.
It would add some extra incentive to defend the port when the CV was at sea, even when it wasn't being hidden, to keep it's loaction secret when it's in route to a fight.
It would still allow for strategic 'moving' of the CV to keep it fom falling into enemy hands, just not 'hiding'.
would end the need for 'spying' to find it, because capturing the port would locate it.
Locating could be exact, shoing the CV icon in red, or soft, where a it's number is displayed in the corner of the sector box it's located in.

Fun for all?  

This is the best CV idea I have read.
 Plus, you can see where the fleet it's hidden. Wtg

What about smokescreen to the CV too.... The person that have the control over the CV, can use the smokescreen to camouflage it better when the enemy are hunting the CV down.

[MaSonZ]

i like it, not real time, but just the last known location before being captured and the bearing of the CV. something along the lines of "Field 1 has been captured by the rooks." "intel reports CV location 7.1.2 bearing 360".

[B-17]

What about smokescreen to the CV too.... The person that have the control over the CV, can use the smokescreen to camouflage it better when the enemy are hunting the CV down.

What's the point of that? There's a generic CV layout, so you would be able to guess fairly accurately. Not to mention that the gunners couldn't see, either.