Hi Excal,
very good idea, thats what others, including me, ask for, since ages.
The people who think the sight is to bad simply never got over the 1st "hour of blindness". They are so much used to hunt icons, they never got aware of the smal but available differents of the dots and planes on long range.
And always again the absolut wrong and stupid hint "Hit ALT+I, that turns icons off" appear. Wong, cause this command turn off only the icons of the player who use this command and he can turn them on again and stupid, cause it always get repeated, although it have nothing to do with "no icon gameing, forced by the host".
Also the hint that the planes need a sidebinding is absolut not necessary, cause its logical and absolut no problem.
Half of the IL-2 players play without icons, although the terrible inside cockpit views and bad/unbalanced middle distance and dot graphics make this way of playing unrealistic difficult and unbalanced.
In EAW no icon games are a blast!! Even people who once though its impossible(same arguments like here) learned to spot and to identify the planes without icons.
In AH games without icons are very good possible(i often dissable the icons, if the host did determin planestyps for each side). Of course its not possible to see on 10k distance the exact planetype, but you can distingush very early between single engine fighters, twin engine fighters and bombers. Same like in RL the angle of view, camo, plane form, quality of the pilots eye´s, the pilots concentration and information(about what planes to expect in the current area) influence the distance of identification.
This major aspects of areal combat and pilot skill currently are dissabled, this OPTION to be used in the H2H area or while squad wars would be a great addition.
Or should we also dissable the external views, extended ammo load and the stall limiter, only cause the majority or at least the MA dont use them??
Iam sure AH would get a real win, cause the excellent inside cockpit views are the best base to play without icons.
Greetings,
