| Blackdog_kt |
10-04-2010 01:28 AM |
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Originally Posted by winny
(Post 186121)
It's a good idea in theory but in practice who is gonna want to play as a tank or soldier when there are real people flying planes? You are not gonna last very long.
It would be hard to simulate everything because of the balance of the different modes. In any aircraft you'd have a massive advantage (which would be good news for us guys!) online, and from my experience of other unbalanced games would mean that everyone ends up not wanting to play as a certain type.
Actually, it could work if Aircraft could only attack surface targets having been requested to do so by another freindly surface unit.. but then you'd have no targets of opportunity..
Maybe one day there will be 500 of us in the air and 500 on the ground.. tie it all in with a strategy game? Then we could all bitch in the recreation room about the rubbish orders we have been getting from some armchair general somewhere... Total war, top to bottom :)
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Actually it's a matter of scale just like you said. Believe me, if there was a flight of four to twelve aircraft that respawned in a position which is at best a half hour trip to the front line (accounting for take off, formation and cruise to target in a sensible, tactical way thanks to the extra systems modelling and operating limits), but enemy soldiers respawn 5km and vehicles 10 km from the front line, they don't have any systems to manage but just point the mouse where they want to go and walk/drive there, there's 200 of them and they are shooting at you with everything from rifles to machine guns to light flak, they'd be anything but disadvantaged. They'd just die a lot but also respawn a lot faster and closer to the battle area ;)
I'd really love to fly in such an environment with realistic threats, where all you can afford is a single pass over the target and you have to get the drop right or risk blowing up your own troops in contact with the enemy.
Of course, the basic layout is a totally different discussion from the amount of processing power and network traffic it will need to work, but we can dream can't we? If we didn't dream we'd still be flying secret weapons of the luftwaffe, but it seems some people can't grasp the fact that what's possible today only happens because some designers started off to do the impossible a few years ago. Too many grumpy old folks sitting on their porch with their shotgun on their lap and yelling "get orf my lawn" to the kids around here and no, i'm not referring to you :-P |
