As a new member of this BBS and experienced flight sim enthusiast I'd firstly like to say hello and congratulate you on Aces High. A great attempt at a WW2 era flight sim imo. With work I'm sure it could eventually rise to challenge and even surpass the premier flight offerings such as IL2 FA3 etc. I sincerely hope this doesn't sound too pompous, anyhow, a friend "Pongo" who I've recently met on this BBS asked me to suggest some improvements / enhancements. So here goes:
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Graphical Improvements:
*Increase FPS by removing useless ground clutter ie tree's, rail, some airfield buildings.
* Definitely remove textures when close to the ground.
*Remove clouds.
*Decrease maximum resolution - this will prevent those with high end systems from gaining a graphical advantage on those with lower end systems.
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Gameplay:
* a scaled hit penalty for bullets coming in from the front quarter to prevent or discourage front quarter attacks.
* Tougher bombers
* Takeoffs to be limited to a minimum of 6 aircraft. Thus forcing players to create missions increasing strategy play.
* The ability to monitor the map screen while flying without it visually impairing vision as it currently does. Perhaps a sort of virtual HUD system.
* An increased damage time from bombing, maybe a 2 hour duration instead of the current 15 minutes which I'm sure we all agree is terribly short.
* more to come shortly
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Flight Modeling
* too many things which could be improved to list but possibly start by looking at other flight simulations such as IL2, Air Warrior or Warbirds for ideas. I will soon try to get some information for you guys from a secret source
I have contacts
* most definitely a look at water injection for AXIS vs Allied planes. AXIS planes seemingly poorly represented in relation to turn performance imo.
* In particular i've noticed a marked difference in RL to AH turn performance with the Macchi C202 and Bf 109G models when compared with the Spitfire V.
* More to come shortly
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I hope you find this information useful and will update with other needed changes shortly. Thank You.
