Second pair of eyes...

[FLOOB]

On the contrary, I think gamey "God's Eye" mode ought to be made unavailable on all planes. If one wants the equivalent of having a second person scanning for bandits then one should have to get another player to join and scan for bandits. Fighter pile-its generally flew with a wingman, does this mean I should get an AI wingie if no one else is available to wing-up with me?

Last time I flew a plane with F3 available I had upped a B-25H to try and hunt tanks. I get attacked by a Corsair. Well, using F3 I start flying that thing like a fighter and threatening to kill on the overshoot with all those nose guns, forcing the Corsair to get out flaps and do "some of that pilot ****" to settle on my six himself. At which point I switch to the equally gamey hyper-accurate flex gun and blast him out of the sky. It was a fun prank, but not really the sort of thing that should be possible in anything trying to be a WWII combat *simulation*.

Gods eye mode is only available from the tower and it's not available to players in the arenas. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE diddly YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT YOU SON OF A squeak!

[FLOOB]

I diddlying love the Golly-geened profanity filter, it's hilarious as toejam.

[wpeters]

Cool idea at its core.  Maybe have such a plane just give auto-check 6's to self.  Thats what the other occupants of the plane would functionally be calling out.

   IF enemy_plane n_feet_from_plane THEN check6.self(180)  etc.

No need to propagate F3 mode.

+1

[Tinkles]

Cool idea at its core.  Maybe have such a plane just give auto-check 6's to self.  Thats what the other occupants of the plane would functionally be calling out.

   IF enemy_plane n_feet_from_plane THEN check6.self(180)  etc.

No need to propagate F3 mode.

I like this.

+1

[BnZs]

Gods eye mode is only available from the tower and it's not available to players in the arenas. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE diddly YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT YOU SON OF A squeak!

You know, initially your use of caps lock and as close to profanity as the BBS will allow made me think you HAD to be right. But after reading what you wrote and finding the content level to be absolute zero, I realized that such signs can be deceiving.

You may be partially correct though, you don't need to be God to fly around outside your airplane while simultaneously controlling it, just Superman with telekinesis   In any case I don't think AHII should involve simulating Kryptonian powers, after all our AH "sun" isn't particularly yellow...  

Any attempt to give an individual player the vision of up to 30 individuals is gamey as hell in something that is supposed to resemble a simulation, as gamey as having the option to up 30 AI wingmen would be. All "locked" cockpits all the time for everything.

[FLOOB]

Ther is an actual mode called "Gods eye" CMs can ise it and I think you can access it offline.

[BnZs]

Ther is an actual mode called "Gods eye" CMs can ise it and I think you can access it offline.

Ah, I can see how confusion ensued then. From now on I shall refer to gamey F3 as "Krytonian Eye mode" then...or you know, I think just saying gamey F3 might be best. 

[Tilt]

Make the view from various crew positions attainable from the hat switch.

No F3.

[nrshida]

Maybe have such a plane just give auto-check 6's to self.  Thats what the other occupants of the plane would functionally be calling out.

Great idea.

Make the view from various crew positions attainable from the hat switch.

...and another great idea.

[Warmongo]

You can have another player "join" you right now but I am not sure if he can look around since I have done it maybe once.

[FLOOB]

diddly toejam  bigtoe YOUR MOTHERdiddlyER squeak

[FLOOB]

oops had to edit it the profanity filter doesn't filter some words hehe

[kvuo75]

Ther is an actual mode called "Gods eye" CMs can ise it and I think you can access it offline.

its called cm eye and yea you can use it offline and in stuff like KOTH.