Sounds like a good idea to me! I'd like the idea of having "my plane". I'd like to see killmarks accumulate over time on the side of my corsair. And a ground crew which will keep this particular plane intact. Flying it too hard one mission, then pushing it hard the next could result in an engine siezing, structural faulure, etc. That might bring something never seen in an online sim into play....reliability of aircraft. Certainly over time the more realible planes like a P47 will fare better than a Zeke? Things may not be as simple as, "well the SpitFire is reasonbly fast and turns good so i'll take that." It may instead come down to "I've been pushing my spit hard these last few missions. Perhaps I should take something that will stay together until my crew can fix my UFO up."
Seems something like the above is more in order, as actual damage sustaining abilities of aircraft dont really come into play. Online wierdness and just dumb luck makes damage seem to be more random. I've seen B17s die no-ping, and jap planes take 3 second bursts of cannon and keep flying (Not just in AH, this includes AW3 and Warbirds too).
Bombing of factories could be used here as well. Destruction of aircraft plants could cause inferior aircraft. (IE: less horsepower, more suseptible to damage, etc)
Whats you's tink?
>>Then you defend your bases instead of >>hopping off (like people do now) trying to >>find anything. It would force people to >>say.. hey I want to fly "fw's" off base >>f21 so maybe they'll try and cap the >>fields a little more to protect their >>precious aircraft.
>>Furthermore if people are only able to fly >>GOOD planes once in awhile but have to fly >>crappy planes most of the time then they >>definitely will APPRECIATE their good >>planes and actually try and land them/keep >>them in one piece.
>>People would begin to get ATTACHED to >>their planes (like what happened in wwII), >>where they wouldn't want their precious >>fw190 that they've flown before >>destroyed.. so they'd land it, refuel and >>takeoff again, knowing they are one of the >>few pilots left on (say rooks) who have a >>fw190 to fly
>>Also there would definitely be more of a >>variety of planes out there if this scheme >>was implemented.. not just the uber planes >>(p51, spit, n1k and fw) that we see now.
>>To the ones who thinks "that would suck, I >>want to fly the {insert plane here} all >>the time" they can if they fly from one of >>the rear fields (where the planes haven't >>been bombed). I'm personally really >>excited about this idea, I just hope one >>of the developers catch this thread.
