IMHO:
First...Its Online.
1. Large Arena Divided by Pacific and European Conflicts
2. Great Server Connects
3. Reasonable Rates
4. Interesting and Active Community Options and Support. (BB's and Web Rings and Conventions)
5. Player Interaction to Game Developement (Feature Editors, SL inputs, New Feature/Acft Voting<for input nor final decision making> )
6. Great Customer Support.
Secondly its dealing with Flight!
1. Make it fly like a real airplane. Adverse Yaw..Stalls...Weight to performance ratios, Compression, Alttitude Performance
2. Gather the Data...design the Airplanes..and then Compare Contrast them with Other Acft vs how the comparison was in real life. Give me Early war an seldom flown theatres. Gimme Brewster Buffalos and Russian Front and Early War Pacific. And off course the Late War Western Europe Front.
3. Keep it a challenge just to fly...and rewarding if you can master it.
4. Gimme Engine Controls, Auto Pilot, Trim Settings.
And Lastly its a SIM!
1. Details...paint -ik-'s 109G-10 Struts RED, Make the Norden look like a Norden, Gyroscopic Gunsights, Bombs with Yellow Stripes, Theatre Markings on Acft., Detailed Airfields and Terrain, Clouds, Sun Glare,Fog, Rain, Night Time. I Wanna See Control Surfaces Move!
2. Strategy and Logistics. Gimme a train to shoot at...and when it dies...make a field not have Fuel/Ammo for RTB Acft for X Mins. Gimme Troops storming the beach...then gimme a CV that tells me where its going...so I can protect it....Gimme a CV to Kill so no troops reach that beach. Gimme Tank Farms...Gimme AAA to protect it all. Bridges, Factories, Army Bases/Troop concentrations.
3. Rolling Plane Set. Keep it balanced..and accurate..and disable out dated acft at appropriate times.
4. Gimme Great Collision Bubbles...damage Models...Make me Work That Wounded Puppy Home.
5. Ordanance /Fuel Options. Let me pick what guns and what fuel...external or no external...all MG's or all Cannons.
6. Gimme Realism (oh god...not the "R" word) Meaning Make Me fly 20 Mins to a base....and not 5...but not 45 either. Make B17 Otto Stupid..and not that good...but when I choose a B17..gimme 5 other AI B17 as wingman...and im the lead.
7. Give Me a incentive not to Die like an idiot...just for the fun of it (Usually a Furball Arena does the trick...keeps those people happy)
8. Gimme Icons at D30 or less...and thats it.
9. Gimme Voice Comms.
10. Gimme a Great Scoring Page! Based on Ability...not Volume.
11. My Perfect online Sim will give -IK- his Engine Requirements on his 109....just so after 3 years he will finally shut up and fly.
Gimme a Game:
1. Gimme a Boxed Version on the shelves....and something fairly descent off line to do...so people can learn..and practice. <Salute to IMOL's latest off line Addition...snicker...which I heard HT and PYRO had put together b4 they left anyway)
2. Give some good Arenas to help the learning curve...and gimme trainers to teach those people.
Pacific Main
European Main
Dueling Main
Instant Action Main
Training Main
No ICON/Scenario for the month Main
3. Give me Squadrons, Give me a 5th Radio, Give me Medals, Give me ".ignore" and give me a game that has a MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF A PII266. Then give me the options to Disable certain graphic intensive options.
4. Gimme a Great Key Mapper.
5. Gimme Exotic Things, V1-Rockets, Remote Controlled Anti Ship Missiles...A-A Rockets, Rocket Planes..Jet Planes...and give it to me on the last day of RPS.
6. Gimme Views Options that will knock my socks off...Give Me redouts/blackouts/ pilot movement vs G Forces/ Pilot Damage that will make me think "I AM IN THE COCKPIT"...and then make me realize im bleading and the cockpits on fire too
7. Gimme a reason to live, If I die, I cant come up from the base I last left. Unless its my countries last base. Hence..no more Vultching/Base overwhelming. And If I die..im out of that action unless I fly twice as long to get back to it.
8. Gimme Increased AAA Accuracy as a countires numbers dip below a certain ratio compared to other countries. IE Purp 30 Gold 30 Green 30 Red 5 Red gets Uber AAA. Keep the playing field a bit even.
9. Multiple Monitor option
10. A Scoring system that has multiple sorting options so I can find out who has the best Kill/Death ratio in a P51. Etc...etc..
11. And Lastly gimme GunJam...in a low and slow F4F. And ill be a happy man.
P.S. Can we have a Spell Checker in the Radio as well
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Hat Trick
-htrk-
War Birds Beta Tester
Aces Hi Wannabe Tester
HiTech Devotee
[This message has been edited by Hat Trick (edited 08-06-1999).]
