LOL Hblair you crack me up bud
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. Well, I may as well post in this monster of a thread just to have my own opinions down forever and ever.
I like dar the way it is, for the most part. I get bounces on folks all the time, and I get bounced to. I don't really use the map to check for people that are gonna bounce me, I use my Hat-switch neck and check my 6 every 5-6 seconds. I also run a quick circle to see if I can find someone else.
I don't think the removal of dar would make it that much easier to bounce someone, in other words. However, it would make it a helluva lot tougher to find a fight, unless you ventured to the tower and looked for a minute or so to determine where bogies are, what their heading is, etc, etc. I don't think that would be very fun to be honest, and I prefer the inflight "super awacs map" because I can do all that while I'm climbing to intercept them.
Plane icons- I think that the plane icons really are necesary, for the reasons that some folks have outlined above (i.e. it is a concession to the fact that we can't see as well on monitors as you could in real life), and some other stuff. I know it gets aggravating, and lord knows there are times when I should have lost someone with a move, only to have them spot my "tag" and come after me, but it balances out because I've done the exact same thing.
Things I would like to see changed with the Radar-
1. No dot OR dar bar for enemy planes that are below 500 feet "above ground level". I think that would be MUCH better than the system we have now, where I can look at the red bars forming up by enemy fields and know something is up. I KNOW the British could do that in the Battle of Britain, but it is just corny
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. I'm pretty much happy with the rest of it, to be honest.
2. I wouldnt mind seeing the "dot dar" refresh every 5 seconds as opposed to continously, I think that is a very good idea. Plus it will give NOE fliers a chance to "disappear" if they venture above the radar level by accident. I KNOW that it disapears now, but with the system we have now you can also track the direction they are going- and if one disappears I almost always assume he has gone below 500 feet, and stayed in the direction he was going.