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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: acepilot2 on May 03, 2003, 02:13:48 PM
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I just thought of an idea how more than 1 gunner can work effectively. Whoever spawned the plane is the captain. When someone joins his plane, by default they have access to all the guns. On the pilot/captain's clipboard there could be a button that says "Crew" or "positions." By clicking it, this would bring up a screen on your cliboard similar to the screen you get when you choose "gun ship or field gunner" in the hangar. On this screen, the captain uses a pull down menu to choose a person currently inside a bomber. For example, if the two people in the plane (the pilot and gunner) names were hitech and pyro, when the captain, hitech, clicked the pull down menu he would see hitech and pyro. when he clicked his gunner pyro, the screen would then show all the gunner positions on the bomber. The captain can simply click on a gunner postition to lock it from pyro. If he were on a b17, he could lock nosegunner, top gunner, and ball-turret gunner from pyro. Then he can choose himself, hitech, and unlock all these positions for himself. This way, he can control all of these positions while pyro controls the other remaining positions. If he had two gunners in his bomber, he could make one gunner control half of the guns and the other gunner control the other half, while he controlled flying the plane. This way, you can have up to as many crew in your bomber as there are gun postions.
If i did not word that too well, the bottom line is that the pilot of the bomber can lock gunner postions from his gunner or himself so that they can control seperate guns in the bomber. The pilot can control the ball turret and top while the his gunner can control everything else, because he locked the ball turret and the top gun from his gunner.
Possibly bombadier can also be counted as a position. Therefore, if the pilot does not know how to calibrate a bombsight, someone can join his bomber and have the role of bombadier.
I would also like to see some way to make a navigator position.