Idea for a new Arena

[Tac]

HTC, how about a fantasy arena?


Aka, an arena where pilots can load their planes with their choice of weapons & ammo

The weapons and ammo would add to the weight of the planes so it'd be hard for anyone to pack the punch of an Imperial Star Destroyer onto a zeke.

So, if I had, say, my P-38 in the hangar I would have a little pull-down menu on a side that would let me choose weapon type (aka, I select .30 cal browning), another to let me choose how many of them (aka, I select 12 guns), another lets me choose the ammo (aka, 5000rnds).

On the other side of the screen there's an indicator of the plane's weight when unloaded, the plane's weight when loaded with its "standard" loadout (aka, 4X.50 , 1X20mm,100% internal fuel) and another with the max overload weight (aka the weight that will barely let me take off) .


Dunno if this would be hard to code or not, just thought it would be amusing to let us play our favourite "what if's"

[Dux]

... and when you shoot down Tac, you can swoop down over his wreckage and add his armament and fuel to your own!

*ahem*

or maybe not.

[akak]

Originally posted by Tac
HTC, how about a fantasy arena?


Aka, an arena where pilots can load their planes with their choice of weapons & ammo

The weapons and ammo would add to the weight of the planes so it'd be hard for anyone to pack the punch of an Imperial Star Destroyer onto a zeke.

So, if I had, say, my P-38 in the hangar I would have a little pull-down menu on a side that would let me choose weapon type (aka, I select .30 cal browning), another to let me choose how many of them (aka, I select 12 guns), another lets me choose the ammo (aka, 5000rnds).

On the other side of the screen there's an indicator of the plane's weight when unloaded, the plane's weight when loaded with its "standard" loadout (aka, 4X.50 , 1X20mm,100% internal fuel) and another with the max overload weight (aka the weight that will barely let me take off) .


Dunno if this would be hard to code or not, just thought it would be amusing to let us play our favourite "what if's"

Sounds like X-Plane Combat.


ack-ack

[vorticon]

hmmm load a hurri2c with 6x 20mm hispanos and 6x 30mm hispanos:)

or put 12x 20mm hispanos onto a spit or la-7

it would create some intersting fights

[J_A_B]

"or put 12x 20mm hispanos onto a spit or la-7 "

I'm thinking that a SPit with that many guns would be an easy kill unless you let it HO you  

J_A_B

[Strange]

Nnnaaaaawwww...   P47-D11  with 32 50cal's AP & HE rounds mixed.. try and HO that baby!!!

[Sandman]

As long as one of the gun options are a BFG-2000, I'm all for it.

[vorticon]

give me 4x 500 round tactical nukes onto a zero

[jonnyb]

I bet just one of those tactical nukes would award you about 30 kills if fired into the center of the infamous "tiffie raid" missions...

[cajun]

Interesting Idea, but I'd imagine it would be Very hard to do.
First of all they would have re make Every model and put in "Limbs" or something to attach the guns,
Then they would have to tell it to put a certain gun in each spot...
And they'd have to add extra coding for the extra weight  and stuff..

[SunKing]

After a few sorites in last nights free perk  "fantasy arena" I realized I didn't enjoy it at all. Having nothing to strive for ( stats, strat ) made the game less enjoyable. Having a historically accurate simulation is what makes this game for me. I doubt you'd find me in any "Crimson Skies" arena.

[T800]

I will have the plasma pulse laser in the 40 mW range.