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Old 10-30-2007, 10:58 AM
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Default Re: Flyable AI Planes?

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Originally Posted by Asheshouse
Oleg -- I know that one of the problems with making multi seat planes flyable is the huge workload involved in modelling all of the crew positions. Have you considered limiting the modelling to the pilot position and leaving the other crew as AI only. This way there would be three types of plane. Flyable with full crew, flyable with AI crew and AI only. Also with multi crew aircraft where perhaps the details of some of the crew positions are not well documented, these could be left as AI while still being able to model the positions for which information is available. In level bombers it would be good to have the option to fly just as the pilot, with the bomb aimer being AI. The pilot would just have to line up for the bomb run with the bomb aimer handling the bomb release and giving directions to the pilot.
To me this would ignore the obvious draw of modeling the big bombers" (I want to try all the crew positions. bombardier, co-pilot,gunner...)

Anyway I think Oleg said he would leave the "big bombers to a third party developer...so we will probably see flyable 4 engine airplanes (hope!)