A suggestion

[bustr]

You mean manually thin trees out in the tank combat 6 mile diameter area around feilds like I did on my three terrains?

If Hitech gives me access to the files I'll do a clean out on older terrains up to the open vista levels I did on BowlMA, Oceania, Riftval. You just set the circle for GroupMaster objects to 3mile radius and thin out the trees, then drive offline tests to insure balance. 98% of GV combat takes place within a 3mile radius of the map room or capture able field. Nothing else needs to be touched. Granted some older terrains have a few spawns 5miles and more from the town. That's why on riftval the tank combat hill and gully  micro terrain exists in only the 6mile diameter around every field. There is no point to texturing or painting anywhere else to that detail since everything else is long distance eye candy for environment theme cohesion.

[ccvi]

Add AI GVs. Lot's of them. Spawn them and let them fight in the middle between fields. When something dies, it spawns back in a bit further home, moving the front.

That provides targets to planes. Targets for player controlled GVs.
Distraction for planes, the probability to hit a player is reduced.
And it creates something that feels like an actual fight, not a binary drop-troops-the-right second battle.

If a single GV hides or not, can be found or not, no longer matters. Hiding is still possible, but not effective (can't follow the moving fight while hiding).

[fuzeman]

Instead of a thousand words.....

[BBQsam]

Instead of a thousand words.....

Dear Hitech,

Fuseman above is recommending bicycle troops dresses as civilians be added to Aces High.

[Oldman731]

Dear Hitech,

Fuseman above is recommending bicycle troops dresses as civilians be added to Aces High.

We need the bike modeled accurately, though.

- oldman

[eddiek]

Set icon range for ground-to-air and air-to-ground to 3K and do away with GV dar altogether.

[fuzeman]

Vanna White, give that man a 'z' please      And as far as my requests they spend less than a nanosecond in HiTech's coconut before being bit bucketed.
old range channel     

Dear Hitech,

Fuseman above is recommending bicycle troops dresses as civilians be added to Aces High.

[zack1234]

Dear Hitech,

Fuseman above is recommending bicycle troops dresses as civilians be added to Aces High.

Best idea of 2019

[toddbobe]

Dear Hitech,

Fuseman above is recommending bicycle troops dresses as civilians be added to Aces High.

Fuseman is right that is the real world GV Dar... But In my humble opinion wht makes a good game is anything representing can be defeated.... While I dont have a picture... think of a smoking hole in the ground where that guy on the bike reported to....the maps and the people are all in 1000 pieces and cant relay the message.

Todd