Musing: what'd I'd like to see in the next version

[Preon1]

You know, while a larger planeset is cool, here are some things I'd LOVE to see implemented in the near future...

Contrails - Money says the eye candy involved in flying and fighting in the cons would be just as shocking as the first time HT put in clouds.

Big Cumulus clouds - see above reasoning

3-D dar - in other words, a radar at a base couldn't see you if you're behind a mountain.  In order for this to work there would also have to be enemy radar stations at the top of mountains to support nearby airfields.  (more fun stuff to blow up)

NOE dar based on AGL instead of ASL - you can't fly below radar in the mountains...  that's just sad.

Anybody else have other musings aside from new planes?

[oboe]

• Dust trails when planes take off from dirt strips
• smoke puffs from cylinders on engine startup
• Visible CV and ship damage (persistent smoke and/or fire), CV damage affects flight ops
• clattering noises and random surges/cutouts when engines damaged

[Raubvogel]

Permanent squelch list please.

[Preon1]

Originally posted by oboe

• Visible CV and ship damage (persistent smoke and/or fire), CV damage affects flight ops

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Man yeah...

HT, there are a TON of unclassified wargames at the Naval War College that I'll bet you could use to model that kind of stuff.

[popeye]

I believe the radar floor already is AGL.

I'd like to see some smoke and shakin when the engines start....but only after ALL the useful stuff is done.

More importantly, I like to see a tower-only dot dar option for CT and Special Events.

[Yeager]

I seriously doubt we will ever see contrails or clouds that work like clouds and differing types of clouds at differing altitudes.  We wont be seeing smoke burn from engine starts.  There wont be smoke burn as engines are firewalled and there wont be engine misfires.  There wont be radar that behaves like radar.
There wont be a sun that impairs vision like the sun does and there wont be ack that hehaves like ack, you know, firing through hills and hangers and such nonsense.  You wont be hearing any fragments hit your plane as you fly through ack fields at 20k.  You will just tool along , minding your own business thinking the dum ack isnt even working then KAPOWW!  your in the tower.  Rubbish.

You see,  HTC will build AH to the lowest common denominator that makes it most attractive to the mass market novice yet provides just enough testicle to drag the diehards along, kicking and screaming, knowing that the holy grail of MMOG flightsims almost was, but alas.........will never be.

Maybe AHv2.0 we will see some things........if and when

Onward furball pile-it, AW is dead but not forgotten

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[eddiek]

I was watching the History Channel the other day, "War in Color" I believe, and it had combat footage of some P47's strafing marshalling yards and other stuff........
What I liked and would love to see is the smoke when the guns are fired....was way too cool seeing the Jug guns hammering and smoke trails behind them.......also would be too neat to see smoke when the planes went full throttle or WEP, have read plenty stories and pilot accounts of Allied flyers knowing when their LW opponents went full power, just from the stream of smoke from their exhausts.......

[sling322]

Originally posted by popeye
More importantly, I like to see a tower-only dot dar option for CT and Special Events.

Unfortunately, Popeye, HT told me himself that he will never program this in....not even for Special Events only.  

Its his company...cant argue with the boss.  

[AKcurly]

While we always need a few new planes,  I want:
1) new & improved film viewer (heh, wtg htc)
2) replace the join command with an invite command. In that way, your permission must be requested and YOU issue the invite.
3) HTC must do some serious thinking about arena size and the numbers we see in the MA today.  Mindanao wasn't designed for 400 participants.
4) Enhance the graphics. (make the ground/mountains/airfields/explosions/clouds and etc more attractive.)
curly

[popeye]

Where is that "bribes" link.....?

[Saurdaukar]

All wonderful ideas, but the problem with most of them is the lag it would cause - the more "stuff" you have in an arena, the slower the gameplay.  IL2 is BEAUTIFUL, but it only supports 32 people online - AH is a beautiful online sim - supports 470.  Regardless - as long as were making a wishlist - I might as well throw my books into the fire...

1.  Contrails - I second this.
2.  Make maps bigger... please.
3.  Once 2 has been accomplished... make fuel burn realistic.
4.  Buff formations - yes Im in favor of them.
5.  Once 4 is done - decrease bomb accuracy
6.  Faster flap speeds - IMO takes a tad too long to deploy.
7.  Realistic Radar - wonderful idea that would enhance gameplay.
8.  Instead of custom plane markings - how about multipul choices for plane paint scemes? <--Good idea.
9.  More realistic "tracer smoke" - get rid of the "line"
10.  And finnally... WEATHER!  Dark clouds - rain!

Mazz/Mike
<-TFC->

[AKEagle+]

I would like:

1.  A feature where the map stays at the last position you had it before you pressed escape.

2. Gas tanks where you could select from the LW and RW and middle tanks, rather than watch all 3 burn down at the same rate.

3.  If say a LW tank is hit, you stop streaming gas once that tank is empty.

4.  A Latte machine and a bathroom added to every fighter.

5.  A YAK-3, so we could get some more interesting threads going! LOL!

AKEagle+

[SOB]

I'd like to see Pyro online more, so I can shoot him down and poke fun at him.


SOB

[Nifty]

Film Soundtrack by John Williams!    Hey, if we are gonna make AVIs from our films, might as well make 'em in style!  

Bigger pipe for the special events arena.  more subscribers means more people signing up for the large scenarios.

[Nefarious]

Besides a finished planeset which we can eventually count on coming. I would like to see:

1. A few more GV's. Notice that I only said a few. I definatley think we need Sherman's and T-34's maybe even a Tiger. And we also need LANDING CRAFT!! Lvt's are nice but will not fill the roll in a D-Day invasion.

2. 3 Subs, 1 German type VII U-boat, a Japanese boat and an American boat. And some type of Destroyer preferably British or American.

3.Fire extingushers!!