I think the game should give ground players more ways to counter air enemies.
In addition to anti-aircraft guns or fighters, let other ground players also have ways to participate in destroying enemy aircraft.
The best way is to mark the position of enemy aircraft, just like marking tanks, which will help anti-aircraft guns or fighter players find enemy aircraft faster.
This will also help encourage confrontation between aircraft players, rather than tacitly throwing spam at the ground.
Planes are already auto marked
Not sure that is true, maybe certain situations, but I remember used to be, not sure nowadays though?
They get a special marker, the small triangle, shows up automatically at 1500m or at 2250m with pilot perk.
Yes but that useually only shows up once you already have spotted the plane yourself.
If a pilot could just look at him map and see that somebody spotted a plane going back to resupply or that a fighter just spawned in it would help coordination of the fighters better as they can get a heads.
To many times are you just sitting in a fighter and die because you chose to do CAS the moment an enemy plane spawned in. But just waiting for new planes to spawn in is very dull.
The thing with aerial threats, you can see them much further than any other target, it only being limited by the resolution of the monitor. As an infantry, you can hear them so early, you can build an AA before it even gets into identification range, and in the air it requires a bit of skill, but still is superior to the ground targets that don’t really render until 500m. Also, if you know the map, you will know where the enemy will be beforehand.
It’s not necessary. No matter how small it is, if there’s something like a fly moving in the sky, you’ll notice it even without the triangle mark.So there’s no need to give assist points to the guy who spots you.