4-12 wish list (Merged)

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by neoasel

Who gets to decide what planes were historically worn out and/or poorly maintained?
I sure wouldn't like to fly on server where somebody can degrade my performance with a slider and I'm not able to that to him also. Same for random inflight failures... Flying online for 20min towards objective just to see my engine fails? Why should I do that?

These are legitimate concerns but I think what has been suggested is something that would be great to have some control over.

There ARE groups that fly online with an eye to maximum historical authenticity and that includes equipment failures and degraded infield performance.

As far as controlling the performance degradation, that wouldn't be any different than offering up a different aircraft. We already kind of do this when choosing between the three La-5 models, or between the dozen or so Spitfire/Bf109/Fw190 models (which are present partially or completely for the same reason). This would add an extra layer representing field conditions which in some historical contexts would be potentially useful to simulate.

For a quick action dogfight server, all of the performance sliders should probably be at 100% and the random engine failures off.