Hello everyone, I think we can all agree that the weapons in SimplePlanes are rather weak as is and yet simultaneously overpowered. There is no way to dodge an interceptor launched at any range greater than 5 km and yet it can’t be launched any farther away than 15 km… as such, I’d like to suggest the next update completely revamp the combat in-game.

Weapons:
Modular missiles—add a bunch of different parts for making custom missiles, these could be things like Solid rocket boosters, RAMJET engines, all sorts of stuff, it would also include the next thing:
More homing types—In SP, there are currently two types of homing, Active Radar Homing (ARH) and Semi-Active Radar Homing (S(ARH)). We have no IR seekers, no TV guided missiles, just ARH and S(ARH) missiles… this leads to the use of “guardians”, which are S(ARH) missiles and as such should be used at long range, as dogfight missiles. The game just needs some updates to how missiles work….
Guns:
As it is currently, guns are completely pointless if you have any kind of missile left… what needs to happen is the creation of belts, that way we can load things like HE, AP, and incendiary, all of which would do different types of damage… which leads into the next section.

Mechanics:
Damage—currently, if a part takes approximately 6 7.62 mm rounds, it will explode with more force than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki… I would like to suggest an upgrade to damage, make it so by default, parts of something like 2.5K HP and as they take more damage, 3 things start to occur:
At 50 damage—bullet holes, at 100 damage, parts will start having holes form in them, this would lead to fuel leaks and such not…
At 100 damage—denting, at this point, parts start to deform from impact damage, though the effect is not severe until the 500 damage mark.
At 250 damage—function loss—at this point, this is where parts like engines and fuel tanks catch on fire, and wings lose function as a means to turn.
At 1000 damage—disconnections. At this point, a part will start randomly disconnecting with other parts it is connected to at a rate of one disconnection per 1K damage. When it disconnects from something, it applies 250 damage to said part.
At 2500 damage—obliteration. At this point, the part simply deletes itself, and all is well in the world.
Armor—a part that can be attached to wings and fuselage blocks, blocks all damage below a certain level from traveling through it. Damage works differently for armor parts, and they would have variable HP depending on their protection value.
For every 500 damage let through the armor plate, it’s protection value drops by 20, thus meaning as time goes on, an armor plate that stops 200 damage at default would be able to pass through at most 5K damage before the plate is removed completely.
Radar—something that is completely broken in-game is radar. Every aircraft has RWR, and a look-down shoot-down radar with infinite range. Something that could be implemented would be a couple of different radar types, to make things more realistic.

If you have any ideas, please put them in the comments. I will take the best ones and insert them into their own section. If you agree with any of the above, please upvote so this will come too Jundroo’s attention.