HI!!!

I think the following ideas, that are:

- Show the weight when you config. your plane, by example: when i get the default 109 G-6 its weight xxxxx, but I added MK108 gun his weight is xxxx (diferent). The weight would change and SHOW whit the config load and litters in gas tank.

- I read in several pilots WW2 boook that when they were hitted in any surface control the stick jumped and shaking out control during a bit time. It would be modeled. :)

Thx.

Some people seem to misunderstand what this topic is about.

Instructions, from the first post of the topic:

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See your wingman telling something to you with hand gestures from his cockpit, ( or maby only say hello, even enemy sometimes ) while radio silence. This would be really funny and inmersive thing, eh!, the guy of the other plane is really alive !

lots of good ideas...here is a couple of mine.

when your plane gets hit it would be good to see...

Gycol(maybe smearing affect on the goggles)

smoke entering the cockpit(clearing a bit if you open the hood)

fire effects in the cockpit(that would make you bail more quickly)

bits of glass or cockpit instruments shattering(hit affects)

cheers

Like flying an I-16 type 6 at 80% throttle , jerk up the stick too fast and the carb gets starved for fuel and the engine dies just after making a straffing run on an IJA tank or supply convoy.... now what the xxxx do I do ? it wont restart as the fuel has now vapor locked and I am at 200 meters doing 250 kph and over heated .... and now theres a Ki-26 on my tail , no radio to call for help and the ground is closing fast " type of thing ?????
1)can't bail out so do I keep trying to restart or
2)throw my hands up in the air and hope the dude in Ki can see me surrender,
3)l hit my landing gear and flaps and try to land or ??????
4)Die.

SoW Dynamic Campaign, July 1940.

Another damned convoy patrol! Rotten weather too. You've been flying the default campaign from the beginning. Determined to follow it as closely as possible to real events. Trouble is, you're getting to be as browned off as the real pilots were. There is a big fight coming and you know it. You just want to get on with it and to Hell with all this damned mucking about.

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Too late again... As you arrive over the convoy you can see that they've just taken a beating. One merchantman is listing badly and falling behind. An armed trawler is still blazing away at something which has already fled into the mist towards France. Ahead of the convoy, a parachute decends slowly. In the weak sunlight you can see the blue of the pilot's uniform, contrasting against the grey-green of the water.

As you circle, you continue to watch the parachute. It's getting much lower now. One ship has changed course slightly to meet it.

Neat. I wonder if it will stop to pick him up?

Suddenly you see something else. Low down and moving fast, a 109 streaks through the convoy running flat out for home. As you fumble with the saftey catch and reflector sight, you take your eye off it for a moment. When you look again you see that it's altered course slightly and is heading straight for the parachute. If he doesn't look out he... My God!

The 109 fires into the parachutist with everything it's got. The pilot is knocked sideways with the force of it and a moment later the chute folds. Whats left begins to fall much, much faster.

The 109 banks slightly. In a moment it disappears into the mist on the other side of the convoy before ships guns can even track it. It's gone... Hopeless for you to follow.

You are shocked. Absolutely shaken by what you just saw. This was supposed to be a game. You've played these dynamic campaigns for years, but never, ever have you seen something as cold blooded as that. That was more like murder than anything else. The 109 pilot went out of his way to kill him.

For the first time, you find yourself thinking of the AI pilots as individuals. You wonder who the RAF bloke was. A moment later, you wonder who the Luftwaffe pilot was too. Oh yes. You'd really like to know who he was. If you see bastard again...

A glance at the petrol gauge. Time to go.

There is a big fight coming and you know it. This is not a game anymore...

Well done Feathered.

S!

I think the best thing to do is to leave OUT parachute kills, at least by AI. Players do it all the time and it did happen in reality too, but much less than supposed. It was condemned by both RAF and Luftwaffe strongly. Feathered wrote a nice story but that parachute episode just was..well, like from all the comics of "evil nazis do this and I have to revenge" ;)

Oh it happened, if not on a regular basis, it did happen more than once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LVlYJ5eJU

This is Bud Peterson talking about events that happened while he was flying a P-51: clearly not during the Battle of Britain. Such incidents almost certainly became more common as the war progressed.

In any case, 'it happened' is hardly a justification for reenacting it in a computer simulation.