Clouds

[Eagler]

If dar isn't truly radar but a system of displaying gathered information from different sources shouldn't one be invisible to the clipboard display when you are flying in a cloud bank ...

The tab box around a plane in a cloud need to go too..

Eagler

[xanax]

If dar isn't truly radar but a system of displaying gathered information from different sources shouldn't one be invisible to the clipboard display when you are flying in a cloud bank ...

The tab box around a plane in a cloud need to go too..

Eagler

I agree. I followed a 38 into the clouds last night and tabbed the box around him to track. All the while I thinking it would be far more exciting and fun to have had to guess where he was in the clouds and where he'd exit. We both popped out of the cloud and I was right on his six. Unfortunately, someone had tracked me through the cloud bank as well and dusted me promptly.

I like having to look around and being a bit tense and nervous. It reminds me of the feelings I got when I first started playing air combat sims.

I tell myself not to use "Tab auto-track" but always deny the dopamine and adrenaline hits and do it anyways. Take the option to use it away from me. Put those great looking clouds to their intended use.

[AKIron]

Clouds can hide you from radar also. Not completely but more so on the primitive radar of those times. Circular polarization and other weather negating aspects didn't become available until later. Possibly there were some, before my time.

[Dadtallica]

Hey boomers can we also sometimes just play a game? Ask Joshua.

[AKIron]

Hey boomers can we also sometimes just play a game? Ask Joshua.

Go play, who's stopping you.

[Dadtallica]

Go play, who's stopping you.

I’m just saying it’s a slippery slope going down the realism Alpine slides. With a game mostly played by veterans. It would be hard to gain new players if we go to deep given what it takes to get set up.

Maybe these can just be settings. I don’t know how hard the programming would be but if you want the MA to be completely free of everything maybe you should have that option? If you want to use icons and radars, and whatever else… maybe you should be able to use those settings?

lol o van already hear the whines all around!

[xanax]

Hey boomers can we also sometimes just play a game? Ask Joshua.

Not a boomer, that's just... like your opinion, man.

You must be within sniffing range of being a boomer yourself if you're alluding to that movie.

Just expressing an opinion was all I was doing here.

[Dadtallica]

Not a boomer, that's just... like your opinion, man.

You must be within sniffing range of being a boomer yourself if you're alluding to that movie.

Just expressing an opinion was all I was doing here.

lol yes I’m the first wave of GEN X, the cooler ones!

[Eagler]

HT said it wasn't actually radar but combination of information displayed as dar..

If that's true when one flies inside a thick cloud cover that player should be invisible to that definition of dar...

I think it would add neat angle to game play and map/cloud creation..

Not sure what's your problem is with my question dad but truly don't care..

Eagler

[hitech]

Clouds will play a bigger part in the radar changes I am planning. I have posted the full plan in the "Idea to alternative to replace AWACS radar" thread.

In short, being near an enemy will no longer put him on your side's map. Someone on your side has to actually see him, and that can't happen if either of you is inside a cloud. So being in a cloud will hide you from the seen contacts of the whole enemy side, not just from the pilot chasing you. Radar contacts are separate, so radar can still show you.

HiTech

[Eagler]

Cool   

Are you going to remove the tab box around a plane in the clouds?

Eagler

[hitech]

Cool   

Are you going to remove the tab box around a plane in the clouds?

Eagler

now that I just found out about it probably.

HiTech

[xanax]

now that I just found out about it probably.

HiTech

Fantastic!

[TalonX]

I do agree the tab box should go. 

[hitech]

All ready complete.

HiTech