wow, thats a great list B6, some great improvements listed there:cool:

shall continue waiting patiently.

Thanks BlackSix.

Looking at that list you'd better add:

Type of improvement: Send Ilya a crate of Vodka.
Explanation: Has numbing effect on the brain and creates a feeling of well being.
Benefit: Temporary escape from 'those guys'.

Type of improvement:
Controls

Explanation of proposals:
Gradually increasing braking power with braking button. As in old IL-2, when you pressed the brakes, they would not got directly to 100% power. Instead, they started from some low power, and gradually increased to 100% when the button was kept pressed.

Benefits:
Helps people with no pedals with toe-brakes or other means of analogue braking. Currently, pressing the button causes the brakes to go to 100% power directly and using it while taxiing/landing/etc. causes an immediate face plant and a ruined propeller.

Type of improvement:
Controls

Explanation of proposals:
Give flaps and rads axis assignments like elevator trim is in the game

Benefits:
support 9-turn saitek trim wheel as bf 109 flap, rad control

Type of improvement: FMB Object

Explanation of proposals:
Provide a FMB object that can:
(a) have sound (wav) file attached to it (something like a dropbox with sound options for seagulls, waves on the beach, factory noises, forest birds chirping, people chatting, air-raid siren etc).
(b) have an effect radius set (the sound becomes active when a player comes within the set radius of the object).
(c) and a pickbox to set the sound for red, blue or both armies.

The sounds would have to either be included with COD updates or downloadable from the mission host at mission-load/runtime. Could consider making a static object & an 'invisible' mobile object.

Benefits:
Provides a flexible means for mission builders to include ambient environmental sounds in their missions adding to game immersion.

Type of improvement: FMB Object (airfield-airodrome runways)

Explanation of proposals:
Currently there is no method to customise hard-coded airbase runways/spawn points. Change the behaviour of the airfield-airdrome runways object so that all hard-coded spawn points & runways within the object radius are removed on mission startup. The mission builder would then be free to place an airfield-airdrome runways object over a hard-coded airfield & create new runways & spawn points as desired.

Benefits:
Provides a flexible means for reconfiguring hard-coded existing airfields on maps.

- Type of Improvement:

Gun Statistics for Each Type of Machine Gun or Cannon on the Player's Aircraft

- Explanation of Proposals:

For example, for the P-39 (although it has not been made yet), it looks roughly like this:

37mm M4: 10 rounds fired, 2 air hits, hit-rate air 20%;
Browning .50: 278 rounds fired, 22 air hits, hit-rate air 8%;

- Benefits:

The cannon rounds and the machine gun rounds of a fighter are so different with regard to size, weight and, above all, damage power, that it does not make sense to count them as the same type of bullet in the guns statistics.

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Type of improvement:

FM/Messerschmitt 109 rudder trim

Explanation of proposals:

Messerschmitt 109 fighters did have a rudder trim. But it had to be adjusted on the airfield by the ground crew before take off and the pilot could not change it during the flight. It would be nice that it could be done also in the sim.

Benefits:

Added realism and better handling of the plane

Type of improvement:

Airfield environment (off-line)

Explanation of proposals:

When in a British fighter, over a German airfield, I never see any flak. In addition, I can attack any plane in the pattern, without the others attacking me.

Same for German plane over a British airfield.

Benefits:

Added realism

binky9

Type of improvement:

Pilot briefing room

Explanation of proposals:

Have a movie play that gives you the mission description with a big map and pilots sitting in chairs. Also a way to skip it if you've already seen it or not interested. Maybe your buddy next to you is trying to show you a pic of his girl (hopefully pretty) or using his hands to show you how he shot down that plane

Benefits:

Added realism and better understanding of what your suppose to do so you can plan according

P.S voices should be in your native language with russian, german, british, italian, etc. accents