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Old 11-23-2010, 07:02 AM
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Default Ground vehicle/ship movement

While I know that ships and vehicles don't have AI and that it would be difficult/impossible for them to have it, would it be possible to incorporate the following options into a future patch:

1) The ability to automatically make a ground vehicle/ship make zig-zagging deviations as it travels along a set course instead of traveling in a straight line. That is, on the FMB map, the vehicle's waypoints go in a straight line, but in the game, it zig-zags/swerves as it travels. This was standard procedure for ships during the war, and was sometimes practiced by ground vehicles, either to avoid attack from the air or to present a slightly angled armored surface to potential enemies directly to the front.

In the FMB, the option to zig-zag could be set up as a checkbox. If left unchecked, movement would be straight by default.

2) The ability to make ground vehicles/ships move in formation, centered around a central point, without having to define individual waypoints for each individual vehicle. This would allow mission builders to quickly set up historical formations such as convoys of merchant ships traveling in a "box" flanked by destroyers or a squadron of tanks advancing in a line abreast or an echelon. With proper spacing between vehicles, formations could zig-zag/swerve in a realistic fashion.

3) The ability for a ground vehicle/ship to swerve if it gets within a set distance of a certain object rather than colliding and doing the "bumper car" routine. Currently, ground vehicles back up one vehicle length, turn 30-45 degrees and then try to go forwards. It would be more realistic and more elegant to have the vehicle turn immediately when it gets within a set distance from another vehicle (less than 1 vehicle length?), make travel along a < or > or ( or ) course (an arc or two opposing 30-45 degree turns) and then continue along its previous heading.