time for small changes?

[Volron]

This is what I meant about the dar bars.

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On the picture you can see the icons. This is an old picture, today if there are enemy aircraft with in a few miles of another friendly their plane icon would show their location and in red so it is very easy to spot enemy planes just using the map.

That...was brought up in the past a few times, wasn't it?  I'm honestly surprised it didn't go this route.  I would think it would be easier to code that in than what HTC went with?   I'm honestly not sure as I'm not a programmer.  While it may SOUND easier, doesn't mean it IS easier.  I know that much.

[kavo]

some great suggestions here

[dbh]

Changes I would like to see....

8)AH needs a totally new map making system... When I play IL-2 and other sims and look out the window I see Europe !! and it adds to the illusion that I'm flying over Europe in World War II. When I'm flying along in AH and look around the terrain is unrealistic looking and and only reminds me I'm in cartoon plane in a cartoon land.

So would we also remove Japanese aircraft from the Europe map area, and conversely German/Russian aircraft from the Pacific theater map area?

I dunno. I too like realism, but think the maps are great as they are for the reasons I fly AH.

MS Flight Sim has extremely realistic map/view fidelity to the real world. I've flown it and it's boring as heck.

Lastly, I would not want to pay anything extra for a map that matched the real world. It would take considerable $effort$ to implement what you describe.

[lunaticfringe]

Changes I would like to see....

1) Remove the ability to look at film while you're in game it's only used for cheating.

2)remove the unrealistic zoom level of the Commander's position on a GV and go to a realistic binocular mode.

3)remove the ability to fire from the Commander's position on a GV.
           
                                                           (Answer)
1) you already have to log completely out of the game to view film-unless you have a 2nd computer.

2) the gunners view is better than the commanders view as far as zoom is concerned.

3) the commander tells the gunner where to fire-it's not like the commander can pull the trigger

[Chris79]

Real realism would be to remove enemy aircraft icons from GVs.

[turt21]

 We use to have a number of players who logged in and you knew the missions were going to stat. "Mugz" is one that I followed years ago, more recently we had one.... and I cant for the live of me remember his name.... that not only led mission after mission but also had radio chatter that made it sound like a realistic WWII mission. Unfortunately he passed away. We need more players like him

ET37 God rest his soul. HAsnt been the same w'out him

[Bruv119]

Real realism would be to remove enemy aircraft icons from GVs.

you mean all icons.   

[lunaticfringe]

you all continue to  beat a dead horse. a lot of stuff here has been wished for for years and some at least after it was implemented, like gv dar. and HiTech will never grant your wishes.

bomb****s whined that it was too hard to find gv's to bomb, so incomes gv dar. storch is almost useless to find gv's thats what we are supposed to use it for, so they added trees with large canopy's to hide gv's, they made gv spotting range from a plane 600ft and that is if it's engine running. and now HiTech added "Auto Target Lock" with a plane can spot a gv  from 2k if its cover is kinda thin and you fly over it. i use it myself, works good for plane to plane for tracking in clouds. instead of hitting the tab button to switch you just enable the A.T.L., it doesn't lock you're guns on, it just sights you're target.
yes i would like the gv dar to go as well. didn't need it in AH2, got along fine without it. was more fun without it. base flashing radar up not a plane so it must be a gv. i think players have gotten lazy to lazy to search for a gv, as well as the bomb tard, the storch was more effective when there was no gv dar.

Violater says a flashing base is not a good indicator of gv presence, why not? it was in AH2, if a base is flashing you you're supposed to go check it out, but people have gotten too lazy to that. a lot of times to can hear a tank while in the tower, you don't see a plane esp if radar is up, up a hvy plane and look for a gv.

also most of the time the game will tell you u have a base under attack, the message ( you're base is under attack)means 1 or of you base's is under attack.



AND BEFORE ANYBODY SAYS IT---1 A 2 SIDED WAR WON'T WORK-and you say why not. well you already have 1 side hoarding 2 sides already esp. in the morning, a 2 sided war would do the same thing. i think we average what 130 people per night. i can see 100 people playing on one side against the 30. well then you say eny. will kick in against the 100- 100 people flying 100 sbd's will still whip 30 people flying eny 5 aircraft.

it's human nature to want to be on the winning side, and getting 75 perks per map win is good as well-and before someone says it's not 75-it is.
25 for fighter 25 for bomber 25 for gv.

well i think that's enough talk.

[Chris79]

you all continue to  beat a dead horse. a lot of stuff here has been wished for for years and some at least after it was implemented, like gv dar. and HiTech will never grant your wishes.

bomb****s whined that it was too hard to find gv's to bomb, so incomes gv dar. storch is almost useless to find gv's thats what we are supposed to use it for, so they added trees with large canopy's to hide gv's, they made gv spotting range from a plane 600ft and that is if it's engine running. and now HiTech added "Auto Target Lock" with a plane can spot a gv  from 2k if its cover is kinda thin and you fly over it. i use it myself, works good for plane to plane for tracking in clouds. instead of hitting the tab button to switch you just enable the A.T.L., it doesn't lock you're guns on, it just sights you're target.
yes i would like the gv dar to go as well. didn't need it in AH2, got along fine without it. was more fun without it. base flashing radar up not a plane so it must be a gv. i think players have gotten lazy to lazy to search for a gv, as well as the bomb tard, the storch was more effective when there was no gv dar.

Violater says a flashing base is not a good indicator of gv presence, why not? it was in AH2, if a base is flashing you you're supposed to go check it out, but people have gotten too lazy to that. a lot of times to can hear a tank while in the tower, you don't see a plane esp if radar is up, up a hvy plane and look for a gv.

also most of the time the game will tell you u have a base under attack, the message ( you're base is under attack)means 1 or of you base's is under attack.



AND BEFORE ANYBODY SAYS IT---1 A 2 SIDED WAR WON'T WORK-and you say why not. well you already have 1 side hoarding 2 sides already esp. in the morning, a 2 sided war would do the same thing. i think we average what 130 people per night. i can see 100 people playing on one side against the 30. well then you say eny. will kick in against the 100- 100 people flying 100 sbd's will still whip 30 people flying eny 5 aircraft.

it's human nature to want to be on the winning side, and getting 75 perks per map win is good as well-and before someone says it's not 75-it is.
25 for fighter 25 for bomber 25 for gv.

well i think that's enough talk.

You know, I never heard much complaints about the difficulty of spotting gvs in AH2, I wonder what the difference is?

[Chris79]

you mean all icons.

Meh maybe limit it to 3k instead of 6. Even with 6k icons and visual range radar, I can still sneak up on people.

[CptTrips]

you mean all icons.

And one death and your account is closed and locked.

 

[Mister Fork]

...and add LSM's that when beached, turn into a GV hangar for that country. Has a 6 AA guns for defence. Four auto-AA and 2 manable.

[1stpar3]

You know, I never heard much complaints about the difficulty of spotting gvs in AH2, I wonder what the difference is?

Same..I think the biggest difference is that now, we play AH3. Several thing stopped happening if for no other reason the 2 went to 3. Like NOE attacks as example...but with GVers, all I hear is TREES TREES TREES. You need to be down in the weeds, but I have ZERO issues with finding GVS. Its kinda what I do best

[Chris79]

Same..I think the biggest difference is that now, we play AH3. Several thing stopped happening if for no other reason the 2 went to 3. Like NOE attacks as example...but with GVers, all I hear is TREES TREES TREES. You need to be down in the weeds, but I have ZERO issues with finding GVS. Its kinda what I do best

Well I remember the fights being better before, maybe because of the larger player base, easier the find targets, I don’t know. I’ve even heard some screeching on 200 about turning graphics down or some such thing.

[Banshee7]

Well I remember the fights being better before, maybe because of the larger player base, easier the find targets, I don’t know. I’ve even heard some screeching on 200 about turning graphics down or some such thing.

Man, that’s an old school trick. I never did like doing it because you’d wind up shooting trees and hedgerows you couldn’t see.