03.02.2008, 13:24
Is true what you say FC about those two faces of this "coin". Playing with "icons off" is more realistic for me but, it has severe drawbacks because of game limitations as you and others pointed. However, people like me tend to "live with" those minuses because 'this side' simulate more of something else... the workload of the pilot. When you see a boggie you have to know what side is him... so you start calculating... where is he coming from? is he in aggresive stance? do we have flights over there? at that altitude? etc etc etc... Many times I had flew in close headons with friendlies almost pressing the trigger (or even presing it 
) because those calculations went not perfectly... and it's fun... it's a part of the game. Just yesterday in a reversal I had confused one friendly (a squad mate on comms) with the enemy that was following him because they broke in different directions just when I made my roll to dive on the oponent. It took me more than 10 seconds to correct my mistake... luckly it was an AI an my friend escaped but, the yelling on TS was priceless... If icons would have been on, such an error couln'd had occurred... a human and natural error.
So, it's true that this mod makes icons far less disturbing to the simulation but you still lose the... error.
So I was thinking... because I am good as a wooden plank at moding IL-2 maybe you or someone else could find a solution to making a mod in which the "dot" is replaced with the last visible LOD till it dissapear in to the sky. I made the suggestion here: viewtopic.php?t=2715 .
And a funny observation of mine... actualy the LODs as crapy as they are, in fact are some sort of caricaturisations of the planes they represent. Many people complained about the fact 109 has too big underwing radiators at some inferior LODs, or the wings too squared... or the Yaks and Laggs have too pointy wings... but, that is what it's making them recognoscible. Once you get used with the main silhouette features of the planes you see them even in those simplified LODs... the game actualy helps you here by its imperfection
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Anyway... enough with OT chit chat... if you could think to a solution for that Mod idea with the LOD instead of Dot we may continue this discussion in that thread I pointed.
And sorry if my interventions were a bit off track for this thread.
S!
) because those calculations went not perfectly... and it's fun... it's a part of the game. Just yesterday in a reversal I had confused one friendly (a squad mate on comms) with the enemy that was following him because they broke in different directions just when I made my roll to dive on the oponent. It took me more than 10 seconds to correct my mistake... luckly it was an AI an my friend escaped but, the yelling on TS was priceless... If icons would have been on, such an error couln'd had occurred... a human and natural error.So, it's true that this mod makes icons far less disturbing to the simulation but you still lose the... error
.So I was thinking... because I am good as a wooden plank at moding IL-2 maybe you or someone else could find a solution to making a mod in which the "dot" is replaced with the last visible LOD till it dissapear in to the sky. I made the suggestion here: viewtopic.php?t=2715 .
And a funny observation of mine... actualy the LODs as crapy as they are, in fact are some sort of caricaturisations of the planes they represent. Many people complained about the fact 109 has too big underwing radiators at some inferior LODs, or the wings too squared... or the Yaks and Laggs have too pointy wings... but, that is what it's making them recognoscible. Once you get used with the main silhouette features of the planes you see them even in those simplified LODs... the game actualy helps you here by its imperfection
.Anyway... enough with OT chit chat... if you could think to a solution for that Mod idea with the LOD instead of Dot we may continue this discussion in that thread I pointed.
And sorry if my interventions were a bit off track for this thread.
S!