Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Eagler on August 04, 2020, 01:19:32 PM
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Change icon range to what MNM is set to now
friendly icons 3K
enemy icons 1K
Keep dar dot the same
Makes for great fun there and would be at least a spin in MA IMO
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Eagler
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lots of us are older with bad sight. reduce icon range and might as well tell us to leave.
semp
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lots of us are older with bad sight. reduce icon range and might as well tell us to leave.
Semp,
Give it a try next Monday (or on a subsequent Monday). It isn't "no icons." It's "reduced icons." Makes a nice balance between reality and fantasy. And because of the efforts of the AvA staff, it gives people a chance to actually try it before they condemn it.
- oldman (who is - by definition, almost - older, and with bad sight)
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Semp,
Give it a try next Monday (or on a subsequent Monday). It isn't "no icons." It's "reduced icons." Makes a nice balance between reality and fantasy. And because of the efforts of the AvA staff, it gives people a chance to actually try it before they condemn it.
- oldman (who is - by definition, almost - older, and with bad sight)
...and then there are those who are just plain resistant to change.
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actually the only reason i don't play ava is my nearsighted is bad, I tried it many times before, couldn't see anything. actually yesterday somehow i disabled icons while flying bombers. i got a kill only because the guy came right on my six. next one was smarter got all 3 of my drones.
semp
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Would probably reduce ganging.
Anything to reduce ganging....
+1 (even though it probably won't happen.)
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Would probably reduce ganging.
Anything to reduce ganging....
+1 (even though it probably won't happen.)
I like it.. makes the fight more intense.
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lots of us are older with bad sight. reduce icon range and might as well tell us to leave.
semp
Legally blind here
It is not no icons it just takes longer for them to pop in
With friendly popping 2k sooner than enemies there is no chance of friendly fire
No icons is not the way IMO..see DCS
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Eagler
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You get this flavor in FSO. Not sure it work as well in the melee.
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You get this flavor in FSO. Not sure it work as well in the melee.
Radar is left as is so you can see that there are planes somewhere..you just have to get closer to see them
The scenarios I have tried, the lack of dar made it extremely boring as you flew around for hours to have a 10 min encounter.
Real maybe boring yes
As it seems like a minimal code change you would think it is something that could be tried easy enough
Eagler
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1k... B17 50cals will chew you up at 1.5k.. think about that.
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1k... B17 50cals will chew you up at 1.5k.. think about that.
Never happened to me. But then, I don't fly balls out into the stream.
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1k... B17 50cals will chew you up at 1.5k.. think about that.
You would know they were enemy bombers way before that as the icon shows on dar as they do now
Eagler
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You would know they were enemy bombers way before that as the icon shows on dar as they do now
Eagler
You just made your wish invalid. :aok
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I would be nice if the mossie bomber and fighter put up the same icon..........on the map screen.
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I would be nice if the mossie bomber and fighter put up the same icon..........on the map screen.
The current system differentiates bombers and fighters by function not airframe shape. I suspect that was specifically for buff hunters. (Ya reckon?) :D
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Do we really need the map icon to do that when people have been jumping into manned ack to see the icon from the gunsight and clearly see the airplane shape at 30k feet?
It just further funnels the gameplay into an ever narrowing box.
Once the buffs only up low level bomb and bail missions, the "buff hunters" will have nobody to hunt.
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Once the buffs only up low level bomb and bail missions, the "buff hunters" will have nobody to hunt.
This is supposed to be an argument against how clipboard icons work?
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Nope...........just the declining number of mission types affected by the changes.
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Nope...........just the declining number of mission types affected by the changes.
A perception of, no doubt. State yours, clearly. :)
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I've vouched for a long time to have a "#" icon to denote number of engines, then below 1000m allow for the model.
I agree that there needs to be a long range icon, but I think it shouldn't be a dead give away.
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I've vouched for a long time to have a "#" icon to denote number of engines, then below 1000m allow for the model.
I agree that there needs to be a long range icon, but I think it shouldn't be a dead give away.
Seems a bit complicated as compared to the current system which has an elegant grace to it.
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There is a setting to change the fighter/bomber icons on radar to just dots. That is an easy change.
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There is a setting to change the fighter/bomber icons on radar to just dots. That is an easy change.
Arena setting? Because players asking for changes of this nature want it to be universal and affect everybody, I suspect.