Suggestions for AI Improvements

[Furio]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

You're right that's not realistic, you should have two planes at most chasing one plane, but it's not realistic for the allies to stick to the bombers either, the Germans tried that in the BoB and it wasn't particularly successful.

It worked quite well for the Tuskegee Airmen, probably the best escort fighter unit ever.

This is not only a whish-list thread, it’s also somewhat complex to be read, at least for me. I would contribute with two small considerations.
Once in landing pattern, AIs have a constrained behaviour. If attacked, they do make evasive manoeuvres, but never fight back and return to pattern as soon as possible. This behaviour could be, perhaps, used for escort fighters, with appropriate tweaking.
Then, I would have a simple wish: the possibility to mark as destroyed… a destroyed plane, or a clearly doomed one. Something like the order: “Don’t shoot to this target anymore”. It’s not realistic, I must admit, but it is annoying to have your kill stolen by a “last bullet”, and I suspect that any shared kills system would end up with the vast majority of kills being awarded as shared.