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Originally Posted by EJGr.Ost_Caspar
That would require, that every player has every skin of that mission on his HD before the mission starts. Its not a very practical way.
I think its better to care for proper default skins for immersions, so skin download can be kept off. Its also better for traffic issues. If anyone pleases to fly dessert skins above England (what?) ... ehm Normandy, then he can just do so and noone else will notice this.
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Thanks for the reply Caspar
You are sure right regarding net traffic. And yes, I like your idea about the default skins. But somthimes player want to use their own skins. For example in a LAN Party (where we enable Skin download):
Let's say 4 Players have to wear the Skin with the white spinner on their Spitties and with the letter codes A to D.
At the same time 6 other Players have to wear the Skin with the red spinner on their Spitties and with the letter codes E to J.
This way, the player chooses his plane at the beginning not only by type, but also by
his personal markings (some skins in our squadron are reserved for "their" players, sometimes even with killmarkings).
And the reason, why I would really like to see something like this in a future patch: After every flight on our LAN-parties we watch the .ntrk on a beamer (drink a beer
) and try to find out, which plane was flown by whom. And sometimes I make little movies from these .ntrks (with fraps, moviemaker, etc.). Without my desired change I always have to note the aircraft type and letter code befor starting the mission.
So in our squadron everybody has all our Albatross-skins (we have our own "skin releas cycle" for this).
The problem of lacking skins as you describe it could be resolved by taking the default skin for every player, who lacks of the requested skin.
I know it's kind of a special wish, but who is not interessted in seeing his own aircraft on the screenshots in our squadron newspaper (yes, we have one)?
I can understand, if it's not possible to fullfill my request (I guess it depends on how much work this will be - no idea), but it would be reeeeaaaaallly great. So please have a second look at it.
Btw: Thanks TD for your superb efforts!
