Friday 2010-12-03 Dev. update and Discussion

[Pursuivant]

Perhaps not for SoW, but there are six things I'd really love to see in a combat flight sim, if only to shut up the endless "chart wars" about aircraft performance:

1) Ability to "create your own ammo belts" using different types of ammo, e.g., just ball ammo (preferred by a few units) or different mixes of ball, tracer and armor-piercing, depending on mission and expected opposition, as well as personal preference.

2) Ability to downgrade aircraft performance to simulate damaged/worn out/badly maintained aircraft. Possibly the ability to slightly upgrade aircraft performance as well, to simulate "hot-rodded" aircraft.

3) Ability to choose different fuel types for certain aircraft based on historical availability.

4) Ability to introduce random mechanical failures. Certain aircraft were plagued by mechanical problems.

5) Degradation of airframe strength, engine performance, etc. over time. Possibly affected by environment, available maintenance facilities and available manpower.

6) The ability to start a mission with a damaged plane or one which has suffered a mechanical failure.

[alado]

guaaaaaaaaauuuuu nice map, biggest, London and Paris, thanks

[Xilon_x]

map of south ITALY
map of north ITALY important alps ITALY-FRANCE
map of mediterrain TUNISIA SICILY AND malta
map of greece and balcans
map cipro and ejipt
map gibilterra and ibiza and south spain
map of belgium and south england
map of south france and corsica and sardegna
map of U.S.A. area of new york coast
map of U.S.A. area of califonia for a japanese surprise attak
map of north japan and tokio.
Especial MAP of south pole ANTARTICA.
ESPECIAL map of atlantic OCEAN to north england.
and map of north germany and finland
ESPECIAL map for race and aereobatic team GRAND CANION or RENO or Schneider race.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Trophy

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by Xilon_x

map of south ITALY
map of north ITALY important alps ITALY-FRANCE
map of mediterrain TUNISIA SICILY AND malta
map of greece and balcans
map cipro and ejipt
map gibilterra and ibiza and south spain
map of belgium and south england
map of south france and corsica and sardegna
map of U.S.A. area of new york coast
map of U.S.A. area of califonia for a japanese surprise attak
map of north japan and tokio.
Especial MAP of south pole ANTARTICA.
ESPECIAL map of atlantic OCEAN to north england.
and map of north germany and finland
ESPECIAL map for race and aereobatic team GRAND CANION or RENO or Schneider race.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Trophy

It made me laugh. It seems absurd at first - but some of this stuff would be quite cool "Especial MAP of south pole ANTARTICA." (with the mountains of madness, of course)

[swiss]

Especial MAP of south pole ANTARTICA.

And Nazi Ufos!!!

But Alps, south France, Sicily - why not.
Lot of work and therefore expensive...

[1.JaVA_Sjonnie]

I find the screenies very reassuring in a way.

There are many similarities with today's FMB in IL-2, expanded with just the things I've been waiting for.

I just wonder whether I will have enough time between the release of CofD and the event I make missions for.
That would be the LLTM and this year it will be held from april 8th through april 10th.
That gives me 2 weeks to build something for this bunch of very critical users.
If you want to see how big this LAN event is, check the gallery (in the "about" menu):

http://www.lowlandtigermeet.com/