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Title: "Zig-zag" button for fleet evasive maneuvers
Post by: Sabre on July 25, 2016, 04:55:25 PM

Press of a button to put task group (TG) into random zig-zag pattern for a set amount of time (say 1 minute), before it resumes the plotted course. To make it easily accessible, perhaps make it a mapboard item. Right-click on the TG, and select "Evade". That way, any player could do it without having to go through assuming command. Maybe make it so that, if there IS a player controlling the TG, the function is disabled for all others. Of course, during the evasive zig-zagging, taking off or landing is challenging to say the least, and it would also throw off gunnery. There's always a trade off.

Title: Re: "Zig-zag" button for fleet evasive maneuvers
Post by: JunkyII on July 25, 2016, 10:24:31 PM

I don't see the need, it's 3 clicks to turn a carrier as is now?? Might help if nobody is watching it but that's kind of the point of having someone in command of it.

Title: Re: "Zig-zag" button for fleet evasive maneuvers
Post by: ONTOS on July 27, 2016, 07:20:58 PM

I like the idea. +1

Title: Re: "Zig-zag" button for fleet evasive maneuvers
Post by: Scca on August 01, 2016, 10:10:22 AM

While I see the need, people who haven't learned to use a rudder pedal would howl like crazy because they couldn't take off..

Title: Re: "Zig-zag" button for fleet evasive maneuvers
Post by: Sabre on August 02, 2016, 12:47:16 PM

Quote from: Scca on August 01, 2016, 10:10:22 AM

While I see the need, people who haven't learned to use a rudder pedal would howl like crazy because they couldn't take off..

True, but that's a real-life consequence of trying to launch from a carrier under attack. Perhaps an audible alarm could be added to alert those aboard the CV that it has begun an evasive maneuver.