Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: flakbait on March 17, 2001, 12:21:00 AM
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Shooting up drones may be a good way to practice, but something more is needed. Adding a drone button in the setup menu would be nice. Then let the player change the drone type to the aircraft s/he wants to blast. This could come in handy for those who want to blast bombers. As for bomber guns in such a situation, just port over the Ack code. Simple, yet effective. I was thinking about a system similar to carriers in that you could set up waypoints for the drones to follow. Sort of create an ad-hoc way to practice blasting planes. I'd love to see waypoints set for drones, since it removes the need for UFO-type AI (ala WBs). You could limit the waypoints to bombers only, and even then a max limit of 4 planes. This would prevent a LOT of offline-only use, but would give you a way to practice.
As for drones online in the TA, well I mentioned that to Leph a day or three ago (longer?). (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Giving trainers the ability to set drone waypoints would allow them to see how someone is doing. And it saves time. Trainers would no longer have to re-up every time a Tin Horn shot 'em down. This is the only alternative to giving trainers the ability to mess with lethality settings. I mentioned that little gem in another thread, which was apparently ignored. I'd also like to know how I could set the cloud wall in H2H or offline, but that's another thread...
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Not bad, I'd like to see drone GV's for straffing and rocket practise too.
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And the ability to turn drones off so that we can practice attacking AA guns.
As it is, the presence of the drones causes the AA guns to be firing at them when in the MA they would be firing at you.
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Karnak : I thought about the drones getting in the way of deacking a field too . The get around is to switch sides offline before you head out to a field . That way the drones are on the their side (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) and the ack only shoots at you .
The other ideas sound great , way points for the drones would sure be a great tool .
spro
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airspro,
Thanks for the suggestion. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
I also had thought it would be nice to be able to set what kind of aircraft the Drones were. I would also like to be able to set their durability, with the default being the same as in the MA.
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
Bring the Spitfire F.MkXIVc to Aces High!!!
Sisu
-Karnak
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Some of the present drones could be lower for vehicle ack practice.
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Drones also should be in the Online Arena! What better way to balance the arena then adding drones to keep numbers the same ! Also I think the Resupply C47 Drones from AW were great touch, giving a sense of logistics to the game not to mention the occasional easy shoot down. You could do this with Ships too, to give the torpedo planes something to play with as well (add merchant ship in other words)
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Originally posted by Yello1:
Drones also should be in the Online Arena!
No way. I fly online, much like everyone else, to fight humans. If I want to fight AI, I'll buy a boxed game.
-SW
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Some moving Gv drones could also be useful offline...
unlimited ammo for rocket practice also comes to mind...
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