Give me some "holy sh... did that just happen" ideas

[Stiboo]

Yes a great thread that we've all been wanting, and great ideas -

My 2 penneth -

I like the idea of rescue mission triggers and photo recon triggers - easy to do and very similar -

Recon - fly over target trigger at X altitude and/or X speed to complete mission

Rescue - fly over target trigger at X altitude to rescue pilot/ship's crew - if flying a campaign that pilot then returns to his Sqdn roster.I've been reading a few BoB books and this happened many times- pilots would land and then take off to look for a downed Sqdn member.( maybe another trigger for this - you land and as you taxi in you are ordered straight back up again to search?)

Talking of Sqdn rosters - in a campaign it would be nice to see how every pilot is doing - maybe a more interactive Squadron menu inbetween missions - Pilot bio, messages from Sqdn leader, aircraft available etc..
, hints, tips...

Another good idea was a random trigger - in the FMB you pick the triggers to be included and the % chance of it happening.


I also really like the idea of triggers for .wav files - fly within distance of another friendly aeroplane (or object- such as control tower) and a famous Ace/another pilot/controller speaks over the radio to you - something funny / rude / or a flying tip - a good wow factor but you would need at least 30-50 clips to keep it fresh - but if we also had the option to add our own .wav files for this trigger in the FMB....endless Wow!

In the BoB books i'm reading often a Sqdn would be given new targets while in the air and re-directed to chase the enemy.

Pilots bailing out, when you shoot down an enemy - lets have lots of ways the enemy pilot can react - parachute not opening, chute on fire, chute gets caught on tail plane ( Douglas Bader had nightmares about a Do17 crewman who's chute got caught and went down with the plane that Bader had shot down... ) this would give a good Wow factor as it wouldn't happen that often.

Also many RAF piots were stunned and wowed by the sheer size of enemy formations - I hope we can look forward to more aircraft in the sky - 64 Vs 64 limit of IL2 was VERY limiting for us campaign designers, lets have 256 Vs 256 - PCs must be 4X more powerful since IL2 was launched !!!! ( yes I know - BoB will also be 4X as complex...)

Keep'm coming!

Stiboo

ps - a release date would make US all say Holy Shi....!!!!!!!!!