Randomizer button.

[hammer]

I would like a button in the tower that will randomize a combination of plane, fuel and ord load-out. If you use the button and complete an objective the resulting perks with be doubled....

I like this idea. Agree that if it's tied to perks, it would be a way to get players to break out of their comfort zone.

Regards,

Hammer

[guncrasher]

If you have this system it with a perk incentive, you will be able to show newer players other aspects of the game they might know about & you will give some older hands a challenge.

You could even set up optional mission briefings, that show how to do each mission.

Something along these lines...  But more WW2 and with Paper maps and photos replacing the 3d models of each target and aircraft you have been assigned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZaOZnuzNK4

This will give a gold for new players to aim for. maybe even have a variable difficulty that adjusts the perk multiplier and the missions that will be given.

So a new player could select an "Easy" mission and would get a Ki-61 with bombs to kill 1 radar tower. On "Medium", that same plane would be asked to drop Radar & ords on a small field. "Hard" could be Drop radar & ords on a large field and obtain a kill.

If they where given a P51 with rockets and bombs then "easy" could be ramped up as the plane would be over matched for the mission. so Medium and hard would shuffle down 1 level and a new hard could be 3 kills over the new Mediums 1 kill.

fish while I understand you want diversity in the game, the new players already have a hard time taking off already and some of what you think are easy planes arent so easy to a new guy.

for example when I started many moons ago, I could barely take off and it took me about a week or two how to get a kill.  I would up a 109 and crash into any red plane as I knew some of the 109's are more survivable than the other planes.

as players get more comfortable they eventually will pick a handful of airplanes that they will be more willing to fly and most wont "venture" out into the type of planes that you fly.  You are one of the few players that actually likes to try new things but there arent many like you.  you like the challenge of trying a new plane until you master it as I have seen you do it many a time.

 however tying more perks to a plane/mission is only gonna help those who have already been playing for a while but love to spend every single perk they get.  anybody that has been around for a year and doesnt have perks to fly any perk plane anytime they feel like it then they better start rethinking how they fly instead of trying to find a faster way to earn perks to waste faster.

semp

[SPKmes]

This would work well with the achievements system

[tuton25]

Maybe have it so you can set the max ENY

[HighTone]

While you're waiting for this wish to be implemented, go grab some six-sided dice out of your Monopoly set and roll like this:

Roll One:

1 = American, 2 = British, 3 = German, 4 = Russian, 5 = Finnish, Italian, 6 = Roll Again

If you roll a 5, then roll again.  1 or 2 = Brewster, 3 or 4 = C202, 4 or 5 = C205.  Go fly.

Roll Two: 

1 or 2 = Fighter, 3 or 4 = Attack, 5 or 6 = Bomber

Roll Three: 

If you get Fighter, 1, 2, or 3 = Single Engine and 4, 5, or 6 = Twin Engine. 

If Attack, 1 or 2 = Single Engine, 3 or 4 = Twin Engine, 5 or 6 = GV. 

If you get Bomber, 1 or 2 = Single Engine, 3 or 4 = Twin Engine, 5 or 6 = Four Engine

If the combination you rolled doesn't exist (i.e. Jap twin-engine fighter), then either roll again or up the closest match.

Roll Four:

If GV, 1 and 2 = Tank, 3 or 4 = M8, M18, M3 with the 75mm, or 251 with rockets, 5 = Wirb, Ostie, or M16MGMC, 6 = Jeep, 251, or M3 with supplies.

For all other results of Roll Three, assign a number value for each of the possibilities in that category.  Roll as many D6 as necessary to account for the result.  Example: You rolled a single engine German fighter.  Roll two dice, 1-11 equals the corresponding fighter, 12 = Roll again.

If you rolled an attack aircraft that can carry a combination of bombs and rockets, roll one more time.  1 or 2 = Bombs only, 3 or 4 = Rockets only, 5 or 6 = Bombs and Rockets.  If you have different choices for bombs, then assign a number value to each choice and roll.

If you rolled a bomber that can carry different loadouts, assign a number value to each loadout and roll.

In all cases of an outlying number, roll again.

Sounds like a blast to me!!! 

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[Fish42]

Maybe have it so you can set the max ENY

This is not something I would like to see added. The missions can change based on skill/plane picked but the plane choice is out of the players hands 100%.

fish while I understand you want diversity in the game

Yep that is one of the golds. I would love to see other aircraft given a run that are normally left because they aren't a P-51 or a similar glamour plane.

for example when I started many moons ago, I could barely take off and it took me about a week or two how to get a kill.  I would up a 109 and crash into any red plane as I knew some of the 109's are more survivable than the other planes.

as players get more comfortable they eventually will pick a handful of airplanes that they will be more willing to fly and most wont "venture" out into the type of planes that you fly.  You are one of the few players that actually likes to try new things but there arent many like you.  you like the challenge of trying a new plane until you master it as I have seen you do it many a time.

If we called it a "Challenge Mission" and allowed it to be optional with a settable difficulty then I don't see how it would be bad. For an easy mission like D3A loaded, go bomb a town... even a 2 week old player should be able to manage that.

Its just a way to let them explore the many game play options already in the game, but with some structure and a reward system for it.

This would work well with the achievements system

It was the Achievements ability to track distraction of objects that made me think of this.

[guncrasher]

If we called it a "Challenge Mission" and allowed it to be optional with a settable difficulty then I don't see how it would be bad. For an easy mission like D3A loaded, go bomb a town... even a 2 week old player should be able to manage that.

totally agree with you, but what is gonna stop a long time player from milking the missions to get extra perks to waste on some bs 262 run.  most of these missions would only be used by longtime player rather than new guys.


semp

[Fish42]

totally agree with you, but what is gonna stop a long time player from milking the missions to get extra perks to waste on some bs 262 run.  most of these missions would only be used by longtime player rather than new guys.


semp

Nothing less then what stops players from milk running and going to MW, EW to farm perks.

If the older players what to use it then so be it. Its a new way to play and might keep some around even longer. If a few more perk planes start showing up then thats not all bad. most never get to fly them anyway and are very bad in them. I know I have planted enough 262s. right now I have <200 fighter perks and that is with me earning 10-20 from some shorties.

[waystin2]

I like it.  You never know what you will end up with.

[wiskyfog]

I facklering LOVE this idea.

+1

facklering? that is as funny as "bullspit" when they "anti-curse" a movie