Plane and GV specific factories and Recon missions

[BZip]

Thought I would bring up the Plane specific factory idea again. I know this was brought up in an AW vs. AH discussion not too long ago and it seemed that a lot of people liked it for different reasons. The main reason being the attraction of blowing up the enemies LA7 plant. Anyways..

I thought it might be a cool idea to implement some sort of Recon mission. Say you up a mission and score it as recon (maybe this can spread a given amount of perks over every attack type, higher points for a more valued factory).  Then, you fly to where a factory may be. This allows you to identify what type of factory it is.

Ideas? Good? Bad? Get lost?

[APDrone]

Yeah, Recon missions would be good.

Perhaps adding Recce vesions ( P38/F5 comes immediately to mind ) and building a points system for bringing back photos.

Also, perhaps incorporating such 'intelligence' into the pop-up map.  

I was thinking more in line of identifying enemy fleets and posting their position and heading so they appear on the clipboard. This information would change as new photos are landed. You could incorporate some time-frame for old pics to disappear, if they hadn't been updated in an hour or so.

So the mission would go something like this.  

Select recce plane F5 from hangar ( no guns, so prepare to run!! )
Launch
Find enemy fleet
Turn Recce camera on ( probably needs to be separate from gun camera )
Return to base
Upload film
Voila'  enemy fleet appears as a base on the clipboard map.

I guess if you really wanted to add some teeth to the value of recce, only update clipboard info after receiving such recce mission results. That way, you don't know if barracks or fuel have been disabled at an enemy base until a BDA ( Bomb Damage Assesment ) mission is completed.

Granted, that's probably taking the level of detail a little deep.. especially if somebody points out that it should, then, take a couple hours of film development time before the photo data was available.

Neat to consider, though.  

<.S>

[Ridge]

For a recon camera view, the bombsite view would work perfectly.

[ramzey]

yeap, and same targeting system

If u aim and catch in cross specific object on airfield or ship push button and take "picture"

Picture is traced as laser hit;)

When u land your country get full status /map?/ of airfield with marked destroyed targets.  And time to recover this objects.
If u recon fleet, after your land enemy fleet will be show on map by 10-15 minutes

pretty easy to implement