It's also "gamey & lame" to park a vehicle in a remote spot just to make a base or factory flash for hours. Even worse with planes, which can sit anywhere in a 500 sq.miles area for the same effect.
A couple weeks ago I saw one of our strats flashing due to a GV and figured I'd go take a run at killing it. I spent a full tank of gas searching for him and returned home frustrated as hell. Just for curiosity's sake I logged out to watch the video. I flew right over him a couple times but never saw him. He was sitting under one of those large canopy trees. I never bothered with a return trip, just left him to sit under his tree and feel special and went to find something fun to do.
Gamey and lame? Yup. Need to be fixed? I'm not really sure, and if it does, how one would go about it. Maybe the thing to do would be the longer you're within radar range of a base flashing it, the more refined the flashing gets? So it starts out after an amount of time, half the circle is flashing, then 1/4, then 1/8, then 1/16th?
Have it reset only if you go outside plane warning distance or if you .ef so a player can't just sit there at the flash range boundary popping in and out to reset it?
Wow, devious minds out there.
Yup.
If you notice when you sit under trees, you will lose airplane icons when they get close to the trees above you in your field of view. You can still see the actual plane, but no icon. It works the same the other way. If you find an extremely dense tree canopy and hide under it, the ability for a plane and even a storch to locate you with your engine off becomes very difficult. Sometimes they may get an icon at a certain angle and sometimes not. I have been just above treetop level in a storch and flew right over the engine off gv and couldn't see him under the tree canopy. I have had to resort to filming, checking the film to find the gv at times.
Wiley.
