My opinion on your test

[CAV]

Clearly the others did not choose to use / do not know how to use AH Film viewer then

This is another gamely thing that needs to be fixed....... in a combat simulation tabbing out of the game to look at a film viewer should never be an option to be used to find your opponent.

CAV

[captain1ma]

its a shame hitech cant code into the game, if you stop moving in a GV, your icon shows, otherwise not. I see movement more then icons, so for me, you catch something moving, you aim for it!! just my 2 cents.

[Shuffler]

its a shame hitech cant code into the game, if you stop moving in a GV, your icon shows, otherwise not. I see movement more then icons, so for me, you catch something moving, you aim for it!! just my 2 cents.

 I am good at noticing slow movement.... I can even see jaeger with his sport walker. You know the one with the tennis balls and an orange flag.

[The Fugitive]

This is another gamely thing that needs to be fixed....... in a combat simulation tabbing out of the game to look at a film viewer should never be an option to be used to find your opponent.

CAV

Hitech already did this, you have to EXIT the game to use the film viewer. There is also timer so that you cant move a film to a laptop of other computer and run it there in real time.. However, it doesn't stop players for exiting the game to do that. Again, its the "gamers" way to do things, cut corners and bend the rules to get what ever "job" they are working on done as quickly as possible.

[save]

I wish more options were tried.  Such as:

- All-seeing radar in the tower but standard dar in flight. 

- GV sector darbar, just like aircraft darbar.  Not icons on map or darbar in a specific spot.


All icons being identical is much more fair for bomber pilots.  And +1 on hardening radar towers or make a lot more of them.

+1, and 30 secs delay on radar, at least as it is now you, can basically pinpoint every move on each plane that flap around, and set up the fight tactically as a joiner.

[BuckShot]

Thank you HTC for changing the radar format to the original settings.

[Alpo]

As a CO of a group of primarily bomber pilots, several of us were actually enjoying the challenge of the full disclosure radar, especially the second version.  However, I also see the issue with the single pilot trying to lone wolf to strat, town, etc.  As such, I don't know if the current game mechanics can handle it but I was thinking of a hybrid radar.  Bar radar on anything outside of radar circles, all fighter icons within the radar ring, bomber icons once they get closer to the tower.  So if fighter icons appear at 12 miles, icons would change to bombers at 6 miles.  NOE would remain invisible until above 250'.

With this, I think the radar circles could be a little larger and the towers a LOT more difficult to drop as one fighter can basically knock out several base radars easily.  Down time on radar could remain as is, linked to the radar factory.  If a tower is out, nothing but friendly shows on radar until inside the "inner ring".

What I'm imagining is something like... "We have a big bar two sectors over"... "They are passing through the edge of the our radar... I count at least six bogey on scope"... "Six miles out A1... it's three sets of bombers with escort inbound!".

Just my opinion, not that it matters much.  The SkyKnights will work with what we are given and enjoy the opportunity regardless.   

[27th]

I just thought i would whine a bit, also known to normal people as sharing my opinion.  The radar test seemed silly to me, it worked great the way it was, and is currently.

It wasnt a matter of folks finding fights in your game, it was/is the fact that your game isnt generating fights a lot of times.

Map sizes, strats/towns being resupplied to easily when a guy spends 1+ hour of his time to get there.. things of that nature that really contradict eachother.

Keep it simple, gv dar is overkill, make a gv dar that shows a guy is in a sector, not right where he is in the sector.

Go back to your bread and butter, what made the game.

Whine over.

PS.. i would have shared my opinion in your new online poll, but i didnt have the option to type it there.  I think those polls are great, make them weekly if you can.

 

 

 
27th

[waystin2]

I am good at noticing slow movement.... I can even see jaeger with his sport walker. You know the one with the tennis balls and an orange flag.

   

[bustr]

Now that the radar is back to where it was, GV's are still a pita to find which is good for them. I have no sense of how GVing is really being effected by not being able to stealth out of a combat zone to land kills. I've watched the determined angry player keep a plane in the red block to deny someone a safe landing of their scalps. Seemed like a wast of time but, game players are not the most rational at times.

I'm kind of torn over being able to see all planes as fighter icons versus blind spots between radar rings but, giving back the ability to kill local radar made people happy from what I could determine. The AK's did some silly missions with radar back to normal including an all Il2 assault on a field that was great fun for the defenders and we all thank them for their efforts. Group assaults of this nature are mostly suicide in the MA these days due to our low numbers and the concentration of game skill in the MA. Radar minimum of 65ft makes the effort suicide in it's own right. So an opportunity for activity is being squashed with a setting that is a relic of a time it was very important to keeping 400 players from avoiding combat.

If possible since we weathered two weeks of radar testing, I wish Hitech would give us a week with the radar minimum at 200ft to see how much concerted group activity would come out of it. All three of my terrains purposely have feilds forcing using c47 for the capture. With a 200ft minimum some would abuse it for stealth to sneak feilds and flip maps to avoid combat. But, are we really that helpless, especially with how skilled at MA game play from years of experience many of us are? The AK IL2 mission I mentioned, the defenders were so needy for action and activity, the mission failed becasue players right now are overly sensation to anything that looks like activity. In the AH2 days of 200ft minimum, the IL2 mission would have stood a chance of getting on the town and doing more damage before the first defenders lifted from the runway. Me110 missions might become popular and worth doing again.

[Puma44]

I am good at noticing slow movement.... I can even see jaeger with his sport walker. You know the one with the tennis balls and an orange flag.

He also has a beer mug attachment installed.  Be careful not to startle him and spill his beer.  He gets real cranky when that happens.

[nrshida]

I found with the experimental settings it was far easier to find a fight and conversely far harder to get ganged. Seemed to amplify good flying technique and punish weak 'standard MA' technique, which was refreshing. I had an hour in my evening just as the numbers were increasing and it was great.

Flying today with the old settings I noticed the typical European daytime trouble, the extremes of several 'no joy' sorties in a row, intersperesed with 2-on-1s which quickly turned into 3, 4-on-1s. This latter aspect of the MA I find tiresome as a squadless loner. This increased with the numbers I found today.

I think the experiments balanced the human-to-human-gameplay-evasion-faction quite well. I ignored the GV battles as usual so comments restricted to air-to-air fighting.

A good initiative HTC 

[Shuffler]

When I return.. I will announce my location every time I take off so all of you can knock the rust off of my 38J

[scott66]

When I return.. I will announce my location every time I take off so all of you can knock the rust off of my 38J

will that 38 even start?

[Shuffler]

will that 38 even start?

I was told the blender still works. That is the most important part... gotta have my frozen margaritas. The engines I will worry about when I get back.

I have a surprise for the 80th.... brand new blenders the SUX 8000s