My humble wish list for minor items. (By minor I mean non-important, I don’t mean to imply they are easy to implement).
1) Churches. Could you remove the necessity of destruction of churches for base capture criteria. I am an atheist but even I think it’s creepy to have to blow up churches to take a town. This might be an easy change- just make churches have the same attribute as that hard to destroy factory in town that doesn’t need to be down for capture.
2) More Terrain Textures. All flight sims run up against some arbitrary limit on the number of terrain textures which leads to repetition within terrains like blocky periodic shorelines, repeating farm fields, etc. I know increasing textures increases the download size, but many people have broadband nowadays and perhaps HTC could sell one-off burned CDRs for a nominal fee to those without broadband? More textures would give designers more latitude in creating visually interesting terrains.
3) Eaves. In current AH town buildings the roof comes right to the edge of walls. In real buildings the roof almost always extends slightly beyond walls, creating eaves. Would it be an easy change to extend the roof polygons slightly beyond walls for better appearance?
4) Farm Buildings. As I understand it these are automatically generated per terrain texture to some limiting local slope. Could the limiting slope be reduced? Barns built as parallelograms on the sides of hills look kind of strange. Also, could you include some farm buildings that aren’t damaged for more variety and less of a scorched earth policy look?
5) More effects. (As already covered by others)
6) Road Maintenance. Could the algorithm that plants bushes and trees keep them off roads? Normally I would have thought this might be difficult but AH used to have clean roads in the past.
7) Ammo Bunkers. AH used to have relatively realistic looking ammo bunkers (i.e. sort of truncated pyramids). The current rectangular ammo bunkers strike me as strange: I’ve been in my share of ammo bunkers and none had windows. Also, none, except the small research material ones I had cog over, would have been even slightly phased by 50 cal or even 20 mm hits: they were all very thick wall concrete additionally protected by earth berms.
8) BR-350P. Could the T-34/76 please have the BR-350P round instead of the BR-350A. This sabot AP round could penetrate 92mm of armor at 500m (vs 70mm for the BR-350A). Perhaps then the T-34 could at least scratch the paint on Tigers instead of being entirely useless. Or could we have the T-34/85 so an allied tank could at least try to take on a Tiger? (OK… so that one wasn’t quite minor.)
This topic area was called “WishList” so please don’t jump on me for actually having some wishes
Respectfully, 715
