22.01.2008, 18:52
Other new plane ideas (assuming we can someday mess with the weapons).
1. Clone a fighter aircraft that also carries bombs.
2. Remove bomb loadouts.
Done. This would NOT mess witht he FM, the DM, or indeed even the weapons. We'd be removing a load set, and it doesn't affect the stock plane at all.
Why? Take virtually all US fighters. They have huge bomb loads because they were used this way at some point. OTOH, they were frequently NOT used as fighter bombers. It would be cool to make a DF map where to bomb things US pilots had to fly, god forbid, BOMBERS. Ditto with the totally bogus bomb loads for the Zero. Zeros did NOT carry 250kg bombs except on suicide missions. Most never carried 30kg or 60kg bombs, either. Same story, imagine a CV battle where the bombers were D3As, B5Ns, TBFs, and SBDs. Oh, and dump the ridiculous wing bombs from the SBDs and only allow centerline bombs assuming changing them to 100s is forbidden. These would be new planes, all with lowered capabilities to force the right kind of fights online.
1. Clone a fighter aircraft that also carries bombs.
2. Remove bomb loadouts.
Done. This would NOT mess witht he FM, the DM, or indeed even the weapons. We'd be removing a load set, and it doesn't affect the stock plane at all.
Why? Take virtually all US fighters. They have huge bomb loads because they were used this way at some point. OTOH, they were frequently NOT used as fighter bombers. It would be cool to make a DF map where to bomb things US pilots had to fly, god forbid, BOMBERS. Ditto with the totally bogus bomb loads for the Zero. Zeros did NOT carry 250kg bombs except on suicide missions. Most never carried 30kg or 60kg bombs, either. Same story, imagine a CV battle where the bombers were D3As, B5Ns, TBFs, and SBDs. Oh, and dump the ridiculous wing bombs from the SBDs and only allow centerline bombs assuming changing them to 100s is forbidden. These would be new planes, all with lowered capabilities to force the right kind of fights online.