Replace icons with glowing outline on tail

[Torquila]

- I wish you would replace the icons with a glowing colour outline on the tail of enemy/friendly planes.

[waystin2]

Explain this one...

[HawkerMKII]

Going for several more cups of coffee, then re read, might understand then

[waystin2]

Going for several more cups of coffee, then re read, might understand then

Pour me a cup, this Tortilla fella confuses me.

[Torquila]

Ugh, sorry guys; Guess I shouldn't leave ideas in their newly-born state, out, like that (around here anyways).

The idea is to basically streamline the information given to players in the MA to reduce visual clutter/etc.

So, imagine you are flying next to your teammate and instead of seeing their name and distance in green, only their rudder is *Lightened* up with an extra sort of fluorescent highlight (could be anywhere else I suppose) representing the need to know info (country colour).

This may just be an old player talking through the stained glass of years of playing, but do we really need to know distance? Won't people get a feel for plane silouettes and subsequent bullet drop attitudes (in a pretty short time) anyways?

[Torquila]

A very minimal example (Download and zoom in if you need to see what I mean exactly):

[Karnak]

Just because you want to have your pilot simulated as being legally blind doesn't mean the rest of us do.

[Torquila]

Haha, that's funny karnak, always the funny guy.

How about a decent objection, like "Yes, you have been playing too long", or "It wouldn't go down well with the newbies"?

There are plenty of ways to twist and spruce this idea up a bit, so why don't you try for once?

[tuton25]

I have a similar Idea
Friendly icons stay the same....
enemy Icons don't come in till under 2k....
make it easier to sneak up on people and catch them off guard

[seano]

im all for no enemy icons!

[Karnak]

im all for no enemy icons!

So, don't want AH to be around to play with, no?

[bustr]

That wouldn't be a bad comprimise in the AvA.

By the time I was 16 in the real world I had 200 hours of stick time with my father who retired a commercial multi engine instructor. The AvA with no icons looks nothing like real life due to the limitations of our computers. Especialy with the purpose driven manipulations of the sky color to allow low flying aicraft to be "Klingon Cloaked" by the pixel\con dot blurring lack of contrast arrangements chosen by the CMs.

You can be "SNUCK" up on with them 100yds under you while dilligently looking down straight at them with the map telling you a red dot is there and not see anything unless they have tracers on. It always seems to be evening or weird winter grey fog in the AvA with terrains desinged to remove all contrast between con dots and the ground at any alt looking down. And sometimes up.

So yes I guess the OP wants to kill Aces High. Is he a shill for WWII Online or Warthunder or WOP?

[guncrasher]

- I wish you would replace the icons with a glowing colour outline on the tail of enemy/friendly planes.

why dont you lead by example and get rid of your own icons.  then if the screens begins to flash when you pull the trigger that means you are shooting at a friendly icon.  let us know how it works out for you.



midway

[Mongoose]

This may just be an old player talking through the stained glass of years of playing, but do we really need to know distance?

I do.

Won't people get a feel for plane silouettes and subsequent bullet drop attitudes (in a pretty short time) anyways?

I am a lousy shot, and a lousy judge of distance, and I need all the help I can get.   

Of course, if I had a better video card and monitor, it might help me in that regard.

On a different note, however, I do remember when I first started playing, the distances were absolutely essential.
Remember, you can always turn your icons off.

Oh, oh.  I just thought of something...   

How about if HTC added another option for icons, that does what you suggest?  Then the folks like me who need to see the distance, have it.  And you can your friend or foe only icons, without the distance.

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ive always thought a red dot above the nme and a green dot above friendlies would be better then the icons, once the plane gets say within 400 yards the icon disappears completely or just turns into very small icon like it is now IE with the plane type only though.....