Factory new Spits back please
 

It is now absolutely impossible to fly a factory new spit in game because even with the slider on the very left side my spit comes in a worn out dress.

I would like to have back the possibility to fly factory new spit.

Please poll accordingly if you agree.

A huge YES from me for that one, the in-game chipping as it is is nothing short of horrible

I agree that they should bring the slider back to 0% but do you not like the effect at all mate?

Slider 0% should not give any weathering at all. However they could place the slider at 25% by default so they don't look factory new in the default setting.

The wing leading edge/smoke effects are OK, but the fuselage and flat surface wearing is terrible, it looks as if the Spitfire has been stone blasted onto the flat surface instead of having gravel and wind/oil from the front, giving huge swathes of chipped areas instead of mainly on raised surfaces/joints and leading edges

I noticed the same thing, when i fly with G.50
But if you set a very low percentage instead of 0, it will be ok.

Perhaps we could have two sliders, one for skin weathering (chipping off of colour) and one for operational traces (oil, exhaust smoke traces, ...)
and no, the chipping does not look good. Looks too random. Chipping imho would occur where there are fine mechanical stresses such as ppl standing and walking or by stones projected from the ground during take off and landing.

Some natural chipping may occur due to temperature falling and rising but likely this will occur predominantly on the edged of the skin panels.

Bump for this.

Yes, a '0' for factory fresh please.. we used to have that initialy.. why did it change?

Big +1 for factory fresh spits, look at this from one of the earlier development updates:

Only the ATA girls get to fly spits like that.

Step forward the ATA girls :D

(We had one visit the museum yesterday - she delivered over 400 spits).

It's not rocket science :mad:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d6...weathering.jpg

A big yes!
Mind you, other palnes are bugged too, depending on where you're flying (MP/SP). I have yet to be able to apply some weathering on Hurricanes, and 109-s are sometimes fully weathered too :(

Post some pictures of WW2 aircraft so we can compare between new and battle worn aircraft and what effect the slider bar should do.

I'll go out on a limb and say a majority of Spitfires in 1940 had this degree of paint missing during the summer and fall. Pure speculation, of course since I wasn't there at the time!

http://www.spitfireperformance.com/19sqdn-spit1.jpg