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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Getback on June 03, 2010, 12:11:25 AM

Title: Lighthouse beacons
Post by: Getback on June 03, 2010, 12:11:25 AM

We need some lighthouse beacons for shoreline bases. Especially on the map with the heavy fog.

Title: Re: Lighthouse beacons
Post by: LLogann on June 03, 2010, 07:10:15 AM

That would be cool!!! 

 :aok

Title: Re: Lighthouse beacons
Post by: thndregg on June 03, 2010, 07:41:09 AM

 :aok

Title: Re: Lighthouse beacons
Post by: APDrone on June 03, 2010, 09:13:03 AM

Take it a little farther...

Apply the fog to the clipboard map so the coast cannot be seen.

Then make the lighthouses destructable.

If a lighthouse is destroyed, any fleet within the lighthouse's sphere of control could then have waypoints set with no warning of contacting land.  If the fleet runs aground, it is respawned at port.

Which raises an interesting question.. were the US coastal lighthouses blacked out during WW2?

Title: Re: Lighthouse beacons
Post by: pwnorris on June 03, 2010, 10:48:04 AM

After the first few months, the lighted beacons in lighthouses would have been shut down.  Foghorns and other aids, maybe.

Remember, the US didn't turn off the coastal lights for a couple of months.  Lots of ships were sunk by u-boats because they the u-boats could see them against the coastal lights.

Title: Re: Lighthouse beacons
Post by: APDrone on June 03, 2010, 10:55:45 AM

Quote from: pwnorris on June 03, 2010, 10:48:04 AM

Remember, the US didn't turn off the coastal lights for a couple of months.  Lots of ships were sunk by u-boats because they the u-boats could see them against the coastal lights.

Yeah.. spent some time in Charleston and John's Island, SC. The houses there were equipped with blackout shades on all the windows ( 1980s ), still.   

Great for sleeping in on Saturdays after a particularly rough night of it.