Here's some information on some upcoming features that we haven't been talking about yet.
Version 1.03
Mission planner. This feature allows a player to create a mission and have other people join it. Mission parameters such as type and number of planes, fuel and ordnance loadouts, starting fields and times, and waypoints and instructions can be entered. Players who join a mission have this information transferred to their clipboard and displayed on their map. This feature will be a helpful organizing tool for special events, squadrons, and just general use for running missions in the main arena.
Special events. There are a couple things we need to finish up before we can effectively start running special events on a large and regular scale. We need to finish up work on the arena configuration menu and finish the terrain editor beta. The terrain editor beta is coming along very well and we hope to have these things available soon. Once there, we will host a large-scale test scenario to kick things off and put together a staff of special event organizers.
Plane Perks. For version 1.04, we will be introducing a new system to AH that will allow players to earn the right to fly certain late-war high performance aircraft that we otherwise would not put in the game due to balance issues. Every plane will have a cost and score multiplier associated with it. While the normal arena plane set will cost nothing, special planes will have a price required to fly them. If you lose one of these planes, you will lose the points you spent on it. The score multiplier will effect how you accumulate points based on the plane that flying vs. the plane you shoot down. If you shoot down a Hurricane with a Ta 152, you will not earn much because that is expected. However, if you shoot down a Ta 152 with a Hurricane, you earn a lot a points. We will be talking more about the implementation of this system as we get closer to it.
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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
