Aces thread

[hardrock]

Hi all

In december you will see a first release of ACES

So I'm going to ask you a few things:
At the moment we're planning to put in a whole package of missiles and bombs, a steerable parachute (not that one you fly like a plane), a liferaft and maybe, and I say MAYBE in one of the further updates, a new pilot model where I'll have a try on oxygen masks and such stuff
(I hope I mentioned everything...)

Also we want to define a standard speed for supersonic aircraft:
And that's also my first question:
We thought of maybe defining OFP 700 km/h = Mach 1 (1400=Mach 2 and so on)
We chose that speed because if a plane flies much faster than 1000 kmh in OFP, the missiles have to be very fast and then they get very unprecise (the chance of hitting decreases)

So what do you think of that?

Another question:
Please post in this thread what weapons we should include in the pack (east and west), maybe you have any genius idea of some special equipment, then please post it
(Would be helpful if every weapon type was mentioned only once)

regards ***

Hardrock

[raedor]

i think 700 is much too much... cos ofp islands are very small!

[Major Fubar]

Sounds like a very good project...

Maybe flares and/or chaff, too?

[hardrock]

Oh yeah I forgot this

Chaff/Flare too, probably one script for every period of time since it was introduced
We want to do this as realistic as possible because many chaff/flare scripts are way too strong
In reality you don't have any chance if a missile is fired 1000 m behind you...

Edit:
@raedor: I don't think 700 too much since otherwise it's not that feeling of flying fast,
second, if we finally have a carrier, we can place it as far from the island as we want since there is all water around,
and if you have dogfights over the sea it doesn't lack the computer as much if you fly fast

[Lee_H._Oswald]

700kmh sounds good to me.

But PLEASE, not under 700.

MfG Lee

[TopCover]

Smells right, but please eloborate...

Would i be able to use this with existing plane addons, giving me all your goodies via scripts or init lines, or does an addon maker incorporate this in future addons; build the plane, get the chaff/flare/chute/raft/ordnance from your creation?

[@cero]

I don't know if is any good, but, you may want to contact this guy call TakeOffTim. In his site he have a FSS - Flight Supervision Systems script.
If you read the read me you'll be very impressed, I haven't used yet, but I will.
Here is a link to the page with the Flight Supervision Systems

[Uncle_Sam]

Yes we needed a addon like this or system, a Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile

Specifications
Missions ***
Targets ***hard, medium-hardened, soft, and area fixed and relocatable targets ***
Service ***Air Force ***
Program status ***
First capability ***
Guidance method ***Global Positioning System (GPS)-aided inertial navigation system (INS) ***
Range ***nautical miles ***
Quantity ***usaf - 2,400
USN - TBD ***
Development cost ***$ million ***
Production cost ***$ million ***
Total acquisition cost ***$ 3 Billion ***
Acquisition unit cost ***$ million ***
Production unit cost ***$700,000 ***
Platforms ***B-52 (12) FY01
B-1 (24) FY02
B-2 (16) FY03
F-16 (2) FY04

F-16C/D
F/A-18E/F F-15E
F-117
P-3C
S-3B ***

The Orange Bomb is it

[Consigliere]

I don't think a JASSM, which is a cruise missile would be suited to OFP.

What I'd like are more nitty gritty systems,geared towards air support, like FAE (Fuel Air Explosives, which would be an anti infantry weapon, which would for example kill all dismounted infantry within a certain radius of the impact point), some sort of mine dispersing munition, like...Hmm...Come to think of it, perhaps that would be the only use I could see a JASSM in OFP fulfilling, so yeah a JASSM in OFP but as long as it isn't a cruise missile, but a submunition dispenser

I'd like GBUs which actually need designation not like most GBUs we see which are automatically guided, sure this would be acceptable if they were renamed GBU-32, -31, -29 (JDAMs) but I only want GBUs to score hits if they are guided externally ( FAC, special forces ) and a really cool thing would be if you could implement LANTIRN ,TIALD or Pave Penny pods, where, say the gunner could lase the target for the pilot to drop GBUs on

I'd like to see more cluster bomb types, like incendiary, anti material, anti personnel, as I think Hudson and Pennywise's CBU is too powerful.

Fuel consumption relative to the OFP level of aircraft usage (I.E I want fuel to run out faster...I 've yet to actually run out of fuel in ) would be nice, and would add a new level to mission planning and execution and would also enable an air-air refueller to have a proper use were one to be made (shame about Hawk's C-130 I wish he would fix it ).

Localised damage may be a bit too much to ask for, but I'll ask for it anyway You never know...

Another autopilot mode would be nice, say attitude hold, for guided bomb attack runs and for when you need to check the map for any longer than usual amount of periods (to find a grid reference and put a marker,etc...)

For aircraft which have 'gunner' positions, I'd certainly like to see the 'gunner' play a more important role...I certainly prefer flying by myself than have an AI gunner telling me to engage this,that and everything one after the other and what is irritating about this is that when the 'gunner' tells you to engage a target, there's never a target box and be honest, it's not like you take the time to decipher what his bearing readouts mean when you're flying fast and low in a hostile environment

For now that's all I can think of, but I'm sure more suggestions/requests will pop up

[Major Fubar]

Yes, FASCAM and cluster bomblets would be very nice too...