Friday Update, February 24, 2012

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

The only way I see this working is if the tanks were already AI controlled and doing their own thing to begin with. Maybe when the AI tanks approached where the action is, human players could just jump into them. But then you have fewer people in the air. If most of the aircraft are just AI controlled, then what is the draw for the human players to play online instead of SP?

This is exactly how it would work. The AI would control most of the tanks and aircraft on the server, while a human player or group of players could either jump into the AI aircraft or vehicle or spawn onto the appropriate airfields with their own aircraft.. The server would control how many people could use vehicles and how many could fly aircraft. Also not knowing whether that aircraft your fighting or about to fight is AI or not will definitely be interesting.

A mission builder could easily build a historic mission with totally AI controlled aircraft and tanks with human players able to jump in at anytime for a regular server or all at once for a coop. If the human player doesn't follow the historical mission plan then its just a fog of war scenario. Or the coop could ask all players to fly the mission historically.