Make the radar line of sight as well as distance limited.
This would make the game more 3 dimensional than it is now. Flyers would experience the buzz of flying as low as possible around the terrain to avoid detection when on bombing mission, and when on airfield defence would use altitude more to improve early warning. End result more separation of roles chosen in the game -> less complaints about use of stealth by attackers, and dropping by defenders.


Limited number of aircraft available to each side.
In real combat if you got shot down you were probably dead, so in reality flying would have been less reckless than the way the "head on" suicide brigade play. Maybe air force size of say 5 or 10 times the maximum number of players. Display on screen how many aircraft your side have got left (but not the oppositions numbers). You win if you either take out all hangers or they run out of planes. End result more focus on the aim of the game, and less on just improving your own kill/death ratio.


Minus points if you get killed.
This could be on personal scores, or on final points taken from game at the end, which would encourage more team support of each other in combat.


Variation in the number of hits needed to secure a kill.
Say only one hit to down a top tier play, five hits to down a 5th tier plane. In general that's the way it is. Earlier aircraft were more rugged, later high tech machines more fragile. This would help quell the complaints about the D8 etc etc, and make it easier for new players in slower planes to contribute to the game.


Points for kill depends on who is shot down.
Downing an Ace is worth more to your team than downing the cannon fodder. Most points for downing a Moraf, least for downing an Aspirant.
This would lead to less shooting of sitting ducks in slow planes, meaning less players would give up when they hit the big boys servers, leading to more players in the middle ranks.


Human frailty.
Add screen blackouts if we try to pull too many G's in a turn.


Oil on the windscreen.
Each hit on your plane should put more oil on your goggles, making it harder to see, and making the decision to turn back part of your tactical choices. (And add the smell of the oil also.)


Frostbite.
Make screens and keyboards become really cold at high altitudes.


More Advertising Sponsorship.
Convince the advertisers to pay US real money to play the game, so that we see their branding.
(I've never quit figured out why people will pay money to buy T shirts with brand names on them. THEY should be paid for being walking billboards.)


25hr days.
An extra hour in every day to allow more time to play DF


World Peace
Make it compulsory that all countries settle their differences in DF, instead of shooting down real airliners, or driving real tanks through peoples homes.

A cure for the common cold.
We realize this might take a bit longer, it can wait until you've done all the other things.


A long list I know, and probably others will add more "realistic" requests, but we have faith in you, you can do it. After all, you're Zuperman!!!

I like this game how it is...all those upgrades would be nice someday ...but for now lets appricate what we got!!

Wth, this is dogfight, not Warthunder or Rise of Flight. Most phones or tabs wont be able to handle that kind of detail. U think lag is bad now, just havinh the smoke lvl higher causes lag, imagine the lag with all that detail. U want realism? Try warthunder. I play warthunder alot, but if I want a break from blackouts and my wings ripping off at high Gs, I come here for some arcade style fun.

tKestrel wrote: Wth, this is dogfight, not Warthunder or Rise of Flight. Most phones or tabs wont be able to handle that kind of detail. U think lag is bad now, just havinh the smoke lvl higher causes lag, imagine the lag with all that detail. U want realism? Try warthunder. I play warthunder alot, but if I want a break from blackouts and my wings ripping off at high Gs, I come here for some arcade style fun.

So Warthunder is fun to play? What type of equipment do you need to play it and does it cost anything?

Warthunder is free. U just need a pc. The download time is a drag but its worth it. The game requires thought, concentration, skill and alittle luck. Its real as hell and I LOVE it. Strategy is what wins missions, and u can forget head ons, u do a head on and ur liable to either catch rounds in the cockpit or have a midair.

I play on a Lenovo Thinkpad P500 laptop with a basic video card so if u have a laptop with same or better specs than mine, it will work on it. I have my graphics set to low instead of auto so I can keep eep my frame rate up. Cool tging is, the game actually tells you the frame rate per sec. So u can track how the computer is handling dif graphics

You use a joystick I assume?

How much is rise of flight,just curious

I use a mouse control. I would love a joystick, but my mouse works just fine with the A and D conbonation for faster rolls. Over 400 pilots have been downed by my mouse controls.

Rise of flight, also free. But u only get 2 free planes, then u have to pay for more advanced planes. I think most skins are free though, u can also pay I think $19 (dont quote me) for a campaign and get planes, maps and other features. Multiplayer on both games are free

Also on R.O.F u can play as a gunner for another player, just pray the pilot knows what he is doing lol

Heres the link for R.O.Fhttp://riseofflight.com/tryrof/en Thats Rise of Flight, not Rise Off Light

And this is warthunders link.warthunder.com
They just added tanks a few weeks ago too, I still suck at em so I stay in the planes where I belong lol.

Just a list of ideas.
Most of the serious ones aren't graphical, so wouldn't load up the processor of the device much.
(Apart from line of sight radar, depending on how its done.)

Lol Kes, you'd better watch it, or Zup might ban you for advertising for competitors!

Yeah, your getting a bit off the topic guys.

I would like to see maybe night missions, or maybe like a time changing set up. I like the idea of more hits per kill and blacking out, mayne as u get better the blackouts will change, lile u are becoming more used to them. Like thy have in Gunship 3. They use red and blackouts. But as u fly, u slowly become more adjusted to stronger Gs.

Well...Zup has priorities to take care of i think LAG and SERVER errors should be at the top of the list. Lets appreciate what we have for now then see if we can get something better. Lets keep it simple and keep it working.

there is no need for more realism just play it like it is its fun and fine with it's realism at the moment don't change it please zup

I want fair servers,I'm losing interest in this game,when I was in the lower server,I had fun dogfights using tactics,having actual dogfights,playing tricks on my opponent,but now its oh look a d8 ok I'm dead,respawning oh look another d8,respawn oh wow I killed one, and I killed a tank,oh look d8 respawn,d8 respawn,d8respawn. And its no different on the German side,oh look f1 respawn,f1 respawn, its never ending,I've been killed almost 100 times and getting only 20 kills,most of them tanks

And most plane kills were from my parachute

I like the line-of-sight radar idea. Staying low to not be seen, hiding behind terrain, sounds like a lot of fun!!
One thing I'd like to see though is the Germans defending, not attacking, the Zeppelins. I mean, since when did the Allies have Zeppelins? Just something for your spare time Zup. Great game otherwise!

I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I don't think that WWI aircraft were able to pull the kind of G's that could cause blackouts... mainly because if they tried it would tear their wings off!!

just sayin...

The unfairness of the servers personally I find an appealing piece of realism, and adds to the challenge.
But I do agree about battling F1's and D8's is demoralizing when you first graduate to the big boys servers. I suspect a lot of top level players have forgotten how hard it was. Maybe a case for intermediate servers...Although the coming squad wars will probably cream off a lot of the Morafs, having much the same effect.
The aim of this post is to give Zuperman some ideas, and useful feed back, instead of the usual diet of negative complaints.
A lot of them he will have thought of before, and others will be too complicated to implemented, but if enough of us idiots make enough stupid suggestions, one of them might lead to an easy to implement improvement.
So keep adding way out ideas and opinions guys, it may help.
Just keep it all positive, and on topic.

Yeah Zebraup, with the number of F1s and D8s around now, in dogfights I'm getting nosebleeds just from throwing my device around. Maybe the game is unrealistically fast and needs slowing down.

Well. I Really want to see only 2 things, neither will cause lag.

1. A figure in the cockpit. Ive ragged about this for over a year, my ocd is killing me everytime I realize im flying a drone in ww1.

2. Id love to see teir based levels. What I mean is like how the rookies have thwir own server, somethubg like that, only year based so only certain planes fly at certain times. I miss flying. My se5, spad, Dr1, and albotrosses, but because the plane superiority, I cant without getting murdered.
Its a shame zups time ans pateince making each plane goes to waste. Think about it, by the time the Fokker D7 came out, the E3 was practically obselete and was only good for training. Now, my idea is, u choose any plane u wish, and ur put into a server based on the time that plane flew, with the adding of 3 other planes from both sides, so there is still plenty of variety, but there a more even playing field.

Thanks tKestrel.
1. Would be nice, maybe we could choose our own helmet colours.
Of course all the ladies would choose.......I'll stop there, I'll get shot down outside the game!

2. You are suggesting which server level you play on depends on the plane you choose, not your ability level? It would mean you would choose a plane after choosing a geographic server, but before it gives you a game on that server? Or are you imagining level based servers instead of geographic based servers?

I quite like 2 also, I'm finding the dogfight speed using top level planes a bit too fast for my geriatric reaction times. Really hard to latch on to something that flies across my screen at the speed of light.

Yes, the #2 is based on the plane, not pilot skill, thats a good counter for when people complain, u have the better plane, try flying what im flying. If we are on an even playing field, then the critical difference is the pilot.

I managed to out fly and shoot down a MORAF this week!

I think he was a bit brassed off, but I was stoked!!!!



I definitely want more points for that, it was much harder than shooting clay pigeons.

That might have been me, and you do get more points for that.
Manfred

guys u expecting so much from zup he has other problems too . when he gets free he ll try his best . he has sveral errors to solve to keep the game running. give him a break ourdemands are never getting finished . have faith in him he will do his best.let us take it easy on zup .

raunak wrote: guys u expecting so much from zup he has other problems too . when he gets free he ll try his best . he has sveral errors to solve to keep the game running. give him a break ourdemands are never getting finished . have faith in him he will do his best.let us take it easy on zup .

i agree, zup has too much on his plate give the poor guy a break from the ideas.