Their have been so many times when you want to message other people on your team about strategy, but cant because the messages are visible to opposing team too.

is it possible to have an option in texting where the message only goes to other team members?

This would work great because now you can create various strategies such as who carries bombs and who dogfights etc. without letting your enemy in on the info.

just an idea

A great idea if you want to make strong teams stronger and weak teams weaker. The server already skews things enough to make many, perhaps most games too unbalanced.

For squad wars, maybe, but I agree with plur. I hate being on a good team, and I wouldn't want to have to improve our performance by communicating.

I agree with you about the server tipping the game unfavourably against one team.

However, in world war 1, they did have some rudimentary communication available.


To combat the issue of unfair games:
Im also contemplating a hypothetical squad that would, as its primary objective, aid the weaker side. That is, the members would be required to defect, if they see that their side is overwhelming. If other people
are interested, than we could create something along that line.

Kptn Singh wrote: is it possible to have an option in texting where the message only goes to other team members?

It's as easy as nothing, only you would have to restrict yourself to a handful of codes that anyone who wanted to could remember.

The superior officer could take command, and for example say things like this to the lower ranked players: "prior", "sekndry", "thrdman" and "quartr":

prior DC (= defend carrier)
sekndry GH (= go high)
thrdman HO (= go head on)
quartr CM (= come with me)

Since most players enter the game just once in a while, and don't come back for weeks, these codes would be understood only by the initiated. Those however, would know what to do.

Then, of course, there is the question of what purpose it would serve. It would just make good players better and novices worse.

When dedicated squad wars become a reality, this would change. The original game would have to go on as always, - after all the ordinary players make up an overwhelming majority and will always be the most important part of the game.

In the dedicated squad games, however, squads could try to outwit one another with codes and signals and plans and schemes made up on beforehand.

Yeah, codes are worthless if the other side knows them.

To bad we couldn't do Blue and Red yahoo group chat while in game via voice (if have mic & have comp access) be so much easier then type'n while flying lol

CalvinIsAwesome wrote: Yeah, codes are worthless if the other side knows them.

Not really worthless. Short codes would at least prevent you from being shot down while writing long messages. .

The real problem with codes is NOT that they would become known to the enemy, but rather the opposite: that too few players would know or remember or care to use them.

Gamekeeper wrote: To bad we couldn't do Blue and Red yahoo group chat while in game via voice (if have mic & have comp access) be so much easier then type'n while flying lol

A blue, red and neutral chat switch would be realistic. The enemy could always listen in to the red chat, but wouldn't usually do so if it meant they might miss blue messages.

It would be a bit like the German WW1 field telephone I have in the cellar. On its side it says in stencilled print: "ACHTUNG! DER FEIND HÖRT MIT!" (Watch out! The enemy listens in!).

Or if the WONDERFUL DEV *kissing a55 now to help get it on lol wink* to get the voice/mic to work with game chat...type'n SO SUCKS Be like Benny Hill not being a sexual deviant pervert he was...no good lol

Lol, hes tried that, but said he couldnt make droids and apples work together because of different mics or something.