I would like to request a few things to add to AH in order to make it more exciting to try and land or return to base those broken and damaged aircraft.
1) damage to vital systams which result in the loss of said system.
i.e. loss of electrical power to landing gear means the player has to use a manual deployment of landing gear, perhaps a button you have to repeatedly press whilst the gear slowly lowers to locked position. failure to deploy fully would result in collapse upon impact.
2) Loss of navigational instruments through bullet damage etc. This would suddenly lose you your nice easy GPS type map.You will have to guess your way to home bases etc.Possibly even use those lovely stars you have given us for bearing confirmations.
3) Fire in the engine or cockpit resulting from either battle damage or over working an engine, The player would possibly have an engine extinguiser(on a keyboard button) with limited CO2 or foam etc and may have to use a dive to aid in putting out a fire by starving it of oxygen.
Fire in a cockpit would require hitting a different button for the hand held extinguisher!
(with resulting cloud of white smoke that clears slowly!
)
4) Weakened structural limits for damaged sections. i.e. if your tail is riddled with bullets theres no more High G flying or you risk ripping off the damaged section. The player must nurse their aircraft home.
5) realistic gun jams maybe with a button for trying to clear the breach.This would possibly only apply to weapons like the zero's cowl weapons which are at hand to the pilot and therefore can be accessed by the pilot from the cockpit.wing weapons would obviously be useless until the ground crews could sort them out (unless they had some unjam mechanism in real life of course)
these are just a few, and i tried to stick to added items that could effectively be ignored by the player who doesnt want all the extra tasks. A player who doesnt care for this sort of thing could land wheels up, or bail from a burning aircraft or when damaged navigatonaly they can just ditch it.But those players who really like this sort of thing can increase their fun by trying to fix things with equiptment that were really on some of these planes.(especially the bombers).
I hope you like the idea HTC , but if not no biggie
. what do other players think? good idea or too much bother?
