My suggestions and ideas to planes in-game

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Plane spam is a bit of a problem and I think everyone kinda hates it (except the pilots lol)
So I have come up with some stupid ideas, so why not share them here?

  1. Instead of resupplying while flying, they should make airfields for the plane to land and refuel/resupply, or just make it takes longer and farther to resupply. Also, instead of banning planes from spawning in the first 60 seconds of the match, just spawn the plane on the airfield at the start of the match, it takes time for them to reach the battlefield anyway.

  2. Add other targets that work like WT base bombing! Such as map areas like enemy Artillery sites (takes longer to call artillery support for the enemy team if that got bombed), even Supply camps (reduce the enemy reinforcement for a tiny little bit if that got bombed). That way, bombers would have more roles and can help the team in different ways, and fighters would be much more important as well (Well, this idea might lead to many problems such as SPAMMSSS again, but then the pilots have to use their bomb wisely because resupply takes longer)

  3. Radio Operator can call for “Close air support”. Radio Operators can have the ability to mark enemy positions for the pilots (maybe as a Big red circle appearing in the pilot’s view/maps) for like 5 mins once, because its pain ass for pilots to spot things on the ground, especially for new players.

  4. Reconnaissance planes can be added if much much bigger maps will be added in the future, for example, you can use them to spot enemy tanks (or even Rosie the Rocketer (͡o ͜ʖO͡) ).

  5. Back gunners and the ability to switch to them.

  6. idk, you guys and share your ideas below :smiley:

Some of the ideas are stupid lol, but its just my own opnion, welcome to share about your ideas and maybe discuss them lol

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1 and 2 it’s boring no one will want to do it if the infantry has a fight all the time because that’s how the game is constructed, what’s the point of spending most of the time sitting at the airport or flying back and forth without any action ?? Waste of time. No offense…

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Take a look at my idea of ​​adding more planes to the game so that you can counter the airborne bombers but limit only one bomber in the team until it is shot down by another plane

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Let me make clear: I am an allround player. I like to play infantry, but I also love playing in the tanks and airplanes. The frequency of which I prefer the most depends on the campaign. I prefer tank (T-50) for Moscow, plane (Ju-188) for Normandy and infantry for Berlin.

Point 1: I agree somewhat. However, please do not increase the distance for reloading. In Moscow it’s already 3000 meters from objective. It’s already 1,5 min to fly from obj to reload point and another 1,5 min back.

I like the idea of reloading at airports. As a somewhat skilled pilot I try to land my plane when I am heavily damaged, just to spice things up (most people will just crash or suicide) for myself. Would love to put my skills to work by landing on an airfield to reload and take off again. Finally some use for those flap (take off & landing) functions!

If this ever will be considered, I think heavy airplanes will have to take a longer time to reload at airfields, and the smaller planes with just machine guns & 50kg bombs and/or missiles will be quicker to reload.

Point 2: I have never played WT nor do I know its mechanics, gameplay etc. but from a realism point of view I like the idea. The more damaged your artillery guns, the less effective/quick it is.

Point 3: OMG YES! As a pilot I always ask people to tag enemy locations. Most of the time no one listens so I have to guess and remember where enemies are. Giving ground troops extra functioanlities that would greatly help the pilots.

Or… Make the minimap bigger/less zoomed out for pilots.

Point 4: I think this is not necessary if point 3 will be considered.

Point 5: You got my vote. Because, there are machine guns at the back of some airplanes, but you can’t use it!? Oh, let me also bring up the fact that Allied bombers can drop heavy bombs & use machine gun, but German bombers can only drop heavy bombs. Totally defenseless in air to air battle. (Normandy campaign).

Cheers, Michael

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I personally think there are no problems with planes, they should be left unchanged. Only problem is when premium player can spawn a plane twice in the row. It was serious balance problem some time ago, i don’t know if they fixed something about it already or left it as it was.

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Nope, still the same. Happened today

Same guy, 2 planes in a row

https://streamable.com/agwso9

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It’s not realistic or good that we have 500 lb bombs dropping down every few minutes. A20g pilots are probably the most scummy players if you ask me. Our player base won’t last if this is the case. They should just make it so you can’t rearm until 10 minutes in flight, because honestly that’s still shorter than what it would take for an actual rearming.

If they make longer game modes then there could be an airfield. All the small maps are connected on the same giant map so technically we could have large scale battles where airfield rearming is necessary.

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A toggle I can select in the options for “Limited Planes Mode” so you only play in a game with planes one every second or third game.

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So 4 drops a game or what?

Man. If this game becomes any more boring and slow paced because these few people that end up in the forums are the only ones discussing their bs, this game will have a small playerbase. And wont be up there with the likes of Battlefield or Call of Duty. So it will have a small playerbase, less income, super hardcore technics and detailism and shit. Fuck that, if this game goes down the drain like WarThunder, I will uninstall it. I already decided to no more spent one cent into this game because bugs dont get fixed, FW-190 is still broken, but hey, yes, make the game even more boring when flying bomber since some people that only know modern art of combat trainings (and not even that), are overwhelmed by shock and awe tactics. Like yeah, during Landing of Normandy thousands of tons of bombs were dropped on German locations. So I dont see how this is unrealistic… This war was a sheer Meatgrinder.

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It’s funny that most people talk about nerfing plane charasteristics/bomb power more when this premium spawn thing clearly is the main problem.
If playing for free planes are not OP at all. For example, I get to spawn bomber at most 2-3 times in a match, even if I manage to fly for longer most of times I get damaged by enemy fighters to the point i can’t continue flying. Most of the time i play with infantry and i’m also not the type of player who tries to kill my own squads as fast as possible just to hop into new plane again. A lot of times someone else from team is already flying and in those matches I get to fly plane maybe even only once in a match.

Good solution to solve this balance problem would be to allow 1 tank and 1 plane squad not two plane squads for premium. Or at least make longer waiting times before flying new plane again

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Yeah but i don’t remember hearing about pilots going suicide bombing 5 meters in front of their friendly troops

The way players abuse the spawn system is indeed more problematic than the planes themselves (they aren’t perfect tho, like those bombs killing you while you’re inside a building)
A pilot who keeps being alive will always take more time to rearm and bomb again than someone freshly spawning every 20 seconds.
When everyone in the team is like at 5-10 deaths but that one suicide guy is already at 20 deaths, there’s something wrong

Also, more effective AA guns would already make a difference. Now there are kinda a joke to fight planes

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They are fine in theory, but when I hop into my fighter, spend 5 minutes hunting down the bomber and after I get bored and die the bomber is still fine and killing my team every minute, is very not okay. I shouldn’t have to rely on my bots to take down the bombers with their bolt-action rifles when we have engineer squads being able to build AA guns and fighter pilots whose literal job is to take down bombers.

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