12.01.2008, 18:15
Strikes me that as long as the skins are there, you could make a version of each map with different default skins.
Alternately, a community pack could be created with a standard naming convention.
Instead of Spring/Winter, perhaps (for the pacific) Prewar (includes Pearl Harbor, fall of Malaya, times before they started changing paint schemes, etc), CBI_Early, CBI_Mid, CBI_Late and PTO_Early, PTO_Mid, PTO_Late.
The difference between PTO and CBI would vary based on the forces. For the IJNAF and IJAAF, the paint jobs would be theater appropriate, and would be more beat up as the war progressed. The Commonwealth forces might have the defaults in the PTO be more aimed at RAAF and RNAF rather than the RAF, while in the CBI they'd be more RAF and RIAF perhaps. USN schemes would be time based only (same for CBI/PTO), while the USAAF schemes would perhaps include some chinese skins for the CBI. In addition, there might be some other differences, we'd have to research them.
So The Slot would have a version with PTO_Early, and perhaps a PTO_Mid. We could clone Burma, and make one Early, one Mid, one Late (assuming there were any real differences). We might get away with pre-war/early as one, mid, and late.
Alternately, a community pack could be created with a standard naming convention.
Instead of Spring/Winter, perhaps (for the pacific) Prewar (includes Pearl Harbor, fall of Malaya, times before they started changing paint schemes, etc), CBI_Early, CBI_Mid, CBI_Late and PTO_Early, PTO_Mid, PTO_Late.
The difference between PTO and CBI would vary based on the forces. For the IJNAF and IJAAF, the paint jobs would be theater appropriate, and would be more beat up as the war progressed. The Commonwealth forces might have the defaults in the PTO be more aimed at RAAF and RNAF rather than the RAF, while in the CBI they'd be more RAF and RIAF perhaps. USN schemes would be time based only (same for CBI/PTO), while the USAAF schemes would perhaps include some chinese skins for the CBI. In addition, there might be some other differences, we'd have to research them.
So The Slot would have a version with PTO_Early, and perhaps a PTO_Mid. We could clone Burma, and make one Early, one Mid, one Late (assuming there were any real differences). We might get away with pre-war/early as one, mid, and late.