Will SoW stop arcade pilots?

[II/JG54_Emil]

I wonder if Sow will stop the arcade style if flying like:
-crash in order to respawn earlier
-killing the plane when landing or flipping it over
etc.

What I mean is that there should be some sort of punishment(maybe in waiting time) for destroying the plane deliberately.

[Skoshi Tiger]

I assume that there will be an ability to choose the amount of realism when flying the sim (just as in IL-2).

If the campaign/points system is reasonable it will reward you when you land and give a penalty if you bail out just to get a new aircraft.

But you will still find people who don't consider points as the reason for the game. Il2 will take an aircraft off your team and award you half points for any kills if you don't get your plane back home. (Set up on the server I think) also they can limit the number of aircraft for your team. If you run out of planes your team looses.

As for shooting planes landing or vulching as being arcadish. I'ld respectfully disagree. In a war your job is to destroy the enemies assets first and then get home to write home to mum.

If you are given the opportunity to get an easy kill, you go for it!

What is arcadish is not having your airbases with adequate aircover to ensure that the vulching can't happen.

[ChrisDNT]

I do hope that SOW, with its realistic map, will stop the GPS cheat icon on the online servers.

[Thunderbolt56]

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

I do hope that SOW, with its realistic map, will stop the GPS cheat icon on the online servers.

Just fly on a server with minimap path disabled.

[Foo'bar]

My idea:

As long as you stay alive you can land and start over and over again, and you'll keep your earned points. As soon you have been shot down you'll loose all your points and start with 0 again. This would force pilots to use their brains a bit more while flying.

[usagold2004]

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

I do hope that SOW, with its realistic map, will stop the GPS cheat icon on the online servers.

this can be eliminated already in IL2...

[Bearcat]

I believe SoW will be good.. but it wont change arcade pilot behavior...

[choctaw111]

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

I do hope that SOW, with its realistic map, will stop the GPS cheat icon on the online servers.

This is actually a setting on the server side...mini map path. It is up to the server admin to have this enabled or not. It's not a cheat, just a difficulty setting.
Many servers have this mini map path enabled. If you don't like it, fly on a full switch server.

[IceFire]

Indeed that map icon is a server setting. I much prefer to have the icon on...so I know where I am

But thats a configurable thing that should be something set by a server or by individual difficulty settings when offline than something imposed by the developer.

Plus the arcade behavior can be quite funny sometimes...seen some guys do some hilarious things to try and avoid a fuel truck they didn't see when they decided to just take off straight ahead at full speed

[Bewolf]

For gods sake I hope it won't stop Arcade flying!

Seriously, the sim fanbase is formed by way too many harcore geeks anways. Luring more ppl into this genre should be top priority, thus giving them options to give this game an arcadish entry to those that have interest in air quake servers at first. By expirience most folks start this way and only later come to enjoy the more realistic settings. I have high hopes for BoB bringing in a lot more younger folks and to shake up the old crusty community here and there. As long there are options for realistic settings for me to fly I am all for including arcade servers for those newcomers.