Author Topic: can we please have seperate or no dar for ground vehicles? (Read 503 times)

lazs2 · « **on:** January 22, 2002, 12:51:12 PM »

Obviously... they should not show up on "radar" but if we are simulatiing "spotters" then I would contend that even the most impaired spotter would be able to correctly report which were planes and which were GV's. I don't particularly wish to fight GV's and am disgusted to fly to a large red bar only to see a dozen osties.
lazs

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2002, 12:55:07 PM »

FA3 is awaiting you Laz.

lazs2 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2002, 01:01:49 PM »

geeze rip.... you're a moron aren't ya? Nice sig tho....
lazs

Hooligan · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2002, 01:18:47 PM »

A feature to toggle what the red bar means (aircraft / vehicles / boats / everything) would be quite handy IMO.

Hooligan

Hooligan · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2002, 01:22:33 PM »

Rip:

If lazs posted in here that is was a nice day you would immediately reply that you hadn't seen the sun in 6 months and it sucked.

Oh wait.... you live in Sumner. In that case, take some prozac, buy yourself a sunlamp and try to calm the diddly down.

Hooligan

Am0n · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2002, 01:29:03 PM »

Cant argue with that.. nothing worse than flying for 10-15 minutes accrossed a sector to get to that hoard that makes up that nice long red line in my radar, only to find 5 flak panzers parked on a runway.

I wouldnt mind as much if i knew they were GV's, i would grab a panzer and go kill them.

Yeager · « **Reply #6 on:** January 22, 2002, 01:39:00 PM »

I suggest implimenting triangles for GVs, circles for Boats and Squares (as is currently) for aircraft sector counters.

popeye · « **Reply #7 on:** January 22, 2002, 01:51:09 PM »

The toggle thing that Hooligan suggested would work fine. It could be added to the "toggle icons" function.

Yeager · « **Reply #8 on:** January 22, 2002, 01:57:10 PM »

No toggle! Tired of toggle...

Just add two new symbols to the sector counter regime. Triangles for GVs and cirlces for boats.

Simple enough HT could do it while on a potty break.

lazs2 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 22, 2002, 01:57:50 PM »

amon, hooligan, yeager, pop... why don't yu all go pay in FA3?
lazs

Wanker · « **Reply #10 on:** January 22, 2002, 02:35:10 PM »

Lazs, I've also been bugging Pyro for this feature in the SEA for the special events. Our concern about GV's is slightly different, though.

We can envision an event where we'd have a joint GV/NOE aricraft attack against some installation. And while we can make the aircraft invisible to radar dots or sector counters under a certain altitude(say 300 ft.), the current tools we have right now would also make any GV's under 300ft invisible. Doesn't seem logical that a GV standing next to a target shelling the hell out of it would be invisible.

Pyro said that they are working on incorporating some change in this area, but he didn't say whether it would be in the next release or not.

Furious · « **Reply #11 on:** January 22, 2002, 03:42:34 PM »

Yeager,

Why different symbols for boats and gv's?

It would be pretty easy to tell that the icon for ground vehicles that is displayed in the water is a boat.

The NTDS uses only 3 symbols to denote contact type. Of course these are broken down into friend (circles), unknown (squares) and hostile (diamonds).

Displaying top half of symbol is Air, full symbol is Surface, and lower half is Sub-surface.

F.

Nifty · « **Reply #12 on:** January 22, 2002, 03:42:36 PM »

toggle would be best, IMO, otherwise your dar bars would cover up the whole map instead of just the top portion that it does now (if you had separate bars for GVs and boats as well as the plane ones we have now.)

Raubvogel · « **Reply #13 on:** January 22, 2002, 03:51:22 PM »

While we're at it, can we please get altitude readings on every target on the map? I get tired of flying at 15000 ft to a grid only to find 10 Spits/N1Ks/La7s on the deck going around in circles. I also get tired of flying a whole grid only to find a P38 or B17 at 35000 ft. I really think we need to block out every con on dar except the ones that are in the precise position that I want them in. Can we also add some time compression so I can get to where I need to be faster? Thanks.

Sachs · « **Reply #14 on:** January 22, 2002, 04:22:10 PM »

i just enable my cheat code and i can id anything. What???? I thought everyone had this... Get real, lets just call it advantage for everyone cept the new guys.