Perfomances through time!

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Originally Posted by LEXX

No. All engineers needed to run high Polygon trains.

ROFL!

[Skoshi Tiger]

I hope there will be a randomize function on line.

Can you imagine the scope for abuse where the hosts squadrons get factory fresh planes and the rest get clapped out planes!

I also hope that the external appearance doesn't necesairly mean the aircraft performance is down. Otherwise having a ratty aircaft will mark you out for special attention. An aircraft can be well maintained mechanically but the paints a bit shoddy. (though the paint work may account for a few mph at top speed!)

I can imagine the chat messages

"I owned U bigtime!"
"My planes a pig, how com all our planes are clapped out"
"Shoddy workman always blames the tools. looser! U Sux"
"It's the plane, Hey aren't u the Host"
"Crybaby"
"Cheeter! I'm going to an IL2 server!"

[LEXX]

Tiger::

Can you imagine the scope for abuse where the hosts squadrons get factory fresh planes and the rest get clapped out planes!

Yes! A "historical" Online War campaign covering anywhere in the Pacific roundabout 1943 and after.

But the AI planes have to have some "wear" modelling, at least at a simple level, or the whole idea is a disaster.

[DKoor]

Originally Posted by LEXX

Tiger::
Yes! A "historical" Online War campaign covering anywhere in the Pacific roundabout 1943 and after.

But the AI planes have to have some "wear" modelling, at least at a simple level, or the whole idea is a disaster.

Yes...
Furthermore they will need to really have the same FM/DM as player or offline experience will be severely crippled.

[LEXX]

FM means squat if the AI isn't programmed to use it, either used right or wrong according to AI pilot skill modelling.

I made an FM for The StrikeFighters. Hardcore, realistic and all that nonsense, and the AI didn't know what to do with it. So I had to dumb it down, big time. I still have the "hardcore" version, so maybe I can use it for player plane, but with a player plane wingman or flight, forget it.

[LEXX]

oh yeah, and to continue my Yeager kick I've been on...

"Its teh player, not teh flight model' ~Chuck_Yeager if he was born decades later and grew up with The Sims.

[Skoshi Tiger]

I wonder how performace will be altered for older planes.

Less Power?
rough running?
More chance of a breakdown?
Harder to start?
More likely to overheat?
Run out of oil quicker?
Smokey exhaust?


As an aside, I've just upgrade my PC a month or two ago and I'm already going through what I'll need to upgrade for Bob in year or so's time! I think my wife will be unimpressed!