No more Icons

[derkojote23]

Iv never had use for Icons any way but today at about 245 pst I was at A140 in LWB assisting in a ripping a town down when I seen an LA strafing me that had no Icon. I killed it and wont say who it was in here because he may not have known it was not up, if you did the you are a sorry Piece Of, (well you know), if you have to cheat to play. Any way it made no never mined to me killed it nun the less. Iv bean playing in battlefield trying the free trial and there are no icons on GVs only on the air craft, and those show only the type and don’t even do that till less then or about 1 mile. As far as I’m concerned the Icon is just a useless way for ppl to get easy kills, and as the game is set up to favor the air units any way killing the Icons should not matter and may improve the game speed a little.

[wooly15]

[Scca]

Is it possible that you had your  nme icons turned off by chance?

[hubsonfire]

See Rules #4, #5

[OSU]

If we turned Icons off in the MA, we wouldn't be able to tell who was friend or foe.  In Battlefield 1942, the only people who don't have icons are your enemies, so you can see who is Axis and who is Allies.

[angelsandair]

Yep, plus you kind of need the icons to tell the distance of your enemies anyways. If they did something diferent with em, it would make me like last in rank.....

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by derkojote23
Iv never had use for Icons any way but today at about 245 pst I was at A140 in LWB assisting in a ripping a town down when I seen an LA strafing me that had no Icon. I killed it and wont say who it was in here because he may not have known it was not up, if you did the you are a sorry Piece Of, (well you know), if you have to cheat to play. Any way it made no never mined to me killed it nun the less. Iv bean playing in battlefield trying the free trial and there are no icons on GVs only on the air craft, and those show only the type and don’t even do that till less then or about 1 mile. As far as I’m concerned the Icon is just a useless way for ppl to get easy kills, and as the game is set up to favor the air units any way killing the Icons should not matter and may improve the game speed a little.

If the plane is low enough on the deck, the icon will not appear as it's "clipped" into the terrain.  That's why sometimes you'll see planes flying right on the deck without any icons.  

One bit of advice that I have for you.  Learn the game mechanics before you call anyone a cheater.  All you do by making posts such as yours is show the community you're not very bright.  


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[Panzzer]

Iv never had use for Icons any way but today at about 245 pst I was at A140 in LWB assisting in a ripping a town down when I seen an LA strafing me that had no Icon. I killed it and wont say who it was in here because he may not have known it was not up, if you did the you are a sorry Piece Of, (well you know), if you have to cheat to play. Any way it made no never mined to me killed it nun the less. Iv bean playing in battlefield trying the free trial and there are no icons on GVs only on the air craft, and those show only the type and don’t even do that till less then or about 1 mile. As far as I’m concerned the Icon is just a useless way for ppl to get easy kills, and as the game is set up to favor the air units any way killing the Icons should not matter and may improve the game speed a little.

Originally posted by derkojote23
I have never had use for icons anyway, but today at about 2:45 PST I was at A140 in LWB assisting in ripping a town down when I see an LA strafing me that had no Icon.

I killed it and (system) wouldn't say who it was. He may not have known it (the town?) was not up, if he did then he is a sorry P40-dweeb, if you have to fly such a plane to play. Anyway it made no nevermind to me, they killed the nun, the less. I have a bean playing in battlefield, trying the free trial, and there are no icons on the GV's, only on the aircraft, and those show only the type and don’t even do that until the distance is less than a mile. As far as I’m concerned the Icon is just a useless way for people to get easy kills, and as the game is set up to favor the air units any way killing the icons should not matter and may improve the game speed a little.

Sorry, English is not my first language. But removing the icons seems just silly as not all of us have 40" screens where they can identify the wingtips of an enemy Spitfire right away.

[Allen Rune]

get rid of the icon? are you nuts? nobody would be able to come within 3 miles of eachother if they can' t see them and thus compleatly kill the game. reminds me of the night fighting settups i hosted on H2H, i had the light so far down you could just barly see the diles in the cockpit let alone fined the ememy, but we had fun anyway

Originally posted by Panzzer
they killed the nun,

[Gowan]

i dont see this working since enemies can fly any plane and you cant tell friendly from enemy, i would like this feature though, so noone is allowed to see icons in AVA, they'd have to identify enemy aircrft themselves


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[Karnak]

AH without icons = a combat flight sim simulating combat by legally blind pilots.

[Larry]

Originally posted by Gowan
i dont see this working since enemies can fly any plane and you cant tell friendly from enemy, i would like this feature though, so noone is allowed to see icons in AVA, they'd have to identify enemy aircrft themselves
 

You dont fly in the AvA so how about not trying to change something you dont play.

[badhorse]

Sorry, but I really don't think much of this idea.  With the same airplanes and skins available to everyone it just wouldn't work.  Even if you could identify an airplane type far enough away to do some good, you still wouldn't know if it were friend or foe.

[uberslet]

Originally posted by badhorse
Sorry, but I really don't think much of this idea.  With the same airplanes and skins available to everyone it just wouldn't work.  Even if you could identify an airplane type far enough away to do some good, you still wouldn't know if it were friend or foe.

bad horse is right. sameplanes same skins availible to every1, itd be near imposible to tell friend from foe. we could do something like AvA, but it would be hard w/ 3 countries, not 2, so no icons would kill the game as Allen Rune said. if you want to have no icons hit ALT + I untill in the text buffer it ses in orange "Icons Off".

[derkojote23]

See Rule #5