There is no doubt that weapons are on the top of the community's wish list. The main problems with weapons is aiming and the types:
AIMING
It would be nearly impossible to aim as the target is moving and you have to shoot ahead to actually hit it. You could get a perfect lock on the target from behind and shoot rockets, like WWII, but that would be ineffective.
TYPES OF WEAPONS
There are a lot of weapons for planes: Variety of machine guns, "dumb" bombs, laser guided bombs, missiles, rockets, etc with different size, shapes, and payloads.
MY PROPOSAL
There should be as few weapons as possible: The point of this game is not weapons and dogfights. As demonstrated in 2, this can be overcome with procedural weapons.
Procedural weapons/types of weapons:
Generic gun(Switchable size, barrel length, rate of fire, etc)
Missile/rocket(Switchable guidance system, payload, size, etc)
Bomb(Switchable guidance system, payload, size, etc)
Guidance block(Used on custom user-created weapons made of of conventional parts)
Solid rocket motor(Variable size, thrust, etc)
Explosive block
Target designator module-You can mark and lock on your tagets with this. You can set different modes(Laser designator, GPS, etc)
=>With these parts the users will have flexibilty of multiple weapons as well as user-created weapons.
I LOVE THE WEAPONS THEY ADDED
@NIGHTWING1 Yeah, well I'm pretty sure that there is a new update coming really soon so maybe there will be some improvements in this area as well.
I still think Some of these should be added.
Huh. That's actually pretty cool
I'm thinking some AIM-9s, a whole AIM family, some HARMs, a GAU-8 Avenger, that kind of stuff
looks great!
@Lucky13 "kids like minecraft, kids like flying/crashing things, kids like building things" you just summed up the life of millions
@XVIindustries active radar would be cool
You thing things out to much, I just want explosions.
I think the buildings at Murphy or Bandit should be able to be damaged so we have something to shoot at without multiplayer.
This game really doesn't come close to aeronautical engineering... That's what I'm majoring in at college lol. Basic flight knowledge yes. I see you point, but the release of the game was not to enlighten children. It was to build a plane fly it around for a little and crash land. Weapons would just be another cool selling point. I can see where your coming from though. @lucky13
Nobody, @Cjredwards but how can it not be educational? It is a (albeit less accurate and realistic than I'd like) but it teaches basic aeronautical engineering, as well as basic flight simulation. It singlehandedly taught me almost everything I know about aeronautics. Imagine the potential, Simpleplanes is a basic almost minecraft-like building game with semi-realistic flight simulation.
Kids like minecraft
Kids like flying/crashing things
Kids like building things
Simpleplanes has all of those things
Simpleplanes teaches:
Aeronautical engineering
Center of Mass/thrust/lift
Basic flight Knowledge.
Can you see my point?
All we need are machine guns, we can make all else
Exactly SIMPLEplaines.
Who said SimplePlanes was educational? @Lucky13
Maybe if we can have multiple planes at once, these weapons could be useful. You can do dogfights by yourself, (if it's possible XD) shooting other planes with your weapons.
@Meawk thanks!
Also thanks to everyone for their support =)
SUPPORT
Omg yes imagine just unloading a mother load of missiles like in Despicable Me at Murphy Airport xD
I think there should just be simple weapons like machine guns, bombs, and missiles that just shoot straight ahead. That way, you don't have to worry about aiming. That's just my opinion. I agree with the proposal.
Yuss. I love it when you talk logic and speak actual sense to the masses.
Nice. There have been lots of "weapons" posts out there, but this one really seems to directly address the issue @RocketLL
Or make a seperate weapon creator so you can make your own guns or download other, user created systems.
this is very well said
not too simple that it limits us but also not too complicated
Weapons would be cool and all, but we wouldn't have anything to shoot at, but I think it would be cool, so we could like, test others weapons and stuff I guess