Maybe a muzzle flash for the WWII destroyers when they fire flak for aesthetic purposes.
Configurable muzzle flash size for guns.
Missiles can still guide themselves to targets even if they run out of fuel. (Boost phases for most missiles aren’t all the way to impact)
Fix issue where structural wings xml edited to have control surfaces don’t completely cease function (including lift) when any part of the plane is destroyed by a gun.
Activation group windows.
Zooming in cameras and cockpits.
Tracer glow visibility at longer distances.
Boss fight capital ships (Battleship or Battlecruiser).
Surface ship AI difficulty:
Easy: Current System.
Medium: More accurate targeting with guns and flak, faster and smarter missiles.
Difficult: Phalanx guns added to modern destroyers (Engage both planes and missiles shot at it), main guns switch to proximity fused rounds (flak), smarter Missiles. WWII destroyers fire off more accurate rounds.
The destroyer launched missiles don’t have a warhead. They use basically ram damage to bring down aircraft. But all plane launched missles have a warhead. When the missile explodes it usually sends an outward force which sends nearby blocks into each other causing them to explode. Which sucks because I can’t make a plane launched missile proof ship lol.
Just saying...
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You’d have to be going much faster than Mach 2.5 to create a plasma sheath over your aircraft.
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The plasma sheath also isn’t really stealth. It just blocks communication and radio waves from entering through it or leaving it. The signals are instead reflected rather than absorbed.
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You’re also generating a lot of heat that can be seen on infrared sensors.
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It is an interesting concept tho
@MrVaultech (StaffelKaptäin
6371) had an "incident" and banned the entire opposing side to GUES and then I believe he stepped down and someone unbanned them.
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After this, @Warbrine (Thatguychris(Kellogs Miniwheats)
Thatguychris
3998) was given leadership and deleted the server. Pretty much wasting all the progress on it.
The heat depends on the viscosity of the air as friction occurs on its surface. So at lower altitudes it could generate a significant amount of heat but I doubt it would be enough to create a plasma sheath.
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Also... if a plasma sheath could even be created it wouldn’t absorb radar. The plasma sheath acts as a barrier to reflect waves coming in and out of the aircraft.
@MrVaultech most of your attack boats lacked close in defense systems or mid ring defense. You may have had spotting with you in the form of helicopters, but that can’t do much of you have very little ways to stop an attack.
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He expected a very very large force and fired an excessive amount of missiles, that’s the issue. He sunk the peacekeeping force on lack of information canonically. (But outside of canon, he probably was just being a jerk, lol.)
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I’ve used similar tactics to justify actions against nations but with arguably a better alibi. It’s a low blow but it’s valid.
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Also, it’s not all about technology. Tactics play a role.
@MrVaultech
An explanation to that would be his use of carrier borne aircraft and mid air refuelling, allowing for aircraft to deployed from very very far away bases. (Falklands where they literally sent Bombers across the Atlantic from Europe using mid air refuelling to strike targets far south).
Depending on the types of ships, they can pretty quickly respond to landings (Fast Patrol Boats, Hydrofoils, maybe Ekranoplans if he’s into that). Destroyers can strike more than 250km away with cruise missiles. They don’t have to get within very close proximity if proper spotting is present such as low observable drones, forces already present, AWACS, satellite imaging or blindly firing a missile at the general area and hoping the seeker picks up a threat on its own.
@PyrusEnderhunter I still don't get what you mean by that.
@ChisP Kind of problematic due to scaling issues and the aerodynamics of some of my planes.
@Mickk You can, but you should disable the engine in the front of the ship (kind of hard to find) because of how planes don't have friction between each other.
@randomusername
Sorry, I was testing suspension with tracks without using a mod and some things are a bit... off...? Works fine if you drive below 40mph though.
@MrVaultech
My main criticism was that you determined actions made by IDAFOR to be an issue when most of the tactics used were valid. Some rules were violated but the rules were problematic in themselves with obvious exploits unattended to in favour of your side.
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You banned members of IDAFOR off of loose assumptions and refused evidence to their innocence.
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A majority of IDAFOR members were little cause for concern and my main belief of your actions is that you were starting to have issues with holding your lines when I took command in the place of the banned player as the mass banning of IDAFOR members occurred within an hour of the advance into Iowa and Florida as well as the loss of Canada from their switch of sides.
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I understand that IDAFOR, especially PilotMario, is a very difficult thing to deal with, considering their methods, but this level of action was not necessary. People have spent a long time trying to set the server up and just because of a losing battle, you chose to remove it all?
The main issues I see with this having the range that it does are:
-The missile is ground launched without any initial speed from a launch aircraft as well as...
-The size of the missile is only 6.7ft while the Hermes missile (The missile this was based on) is 11.4ft in length while only capable of hitting ground targets at 30km (Yours has about 98.17km range apparently).
Edit: Wait, it was vertically placed... my bad... lol
@Jetliner101 Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Jimmy however wanted to make himself sound powerful so he picked something that sounded more like the USA.
@ThomasRoderick Pretty much.
The Izumo is a World of Warships "paper ship" which was a proposed design for the Yamato class battleships that was scrapped. The proposed design was similar to the Rodney with the all forward turret layout but was rejected in favor of the two front and one aft layout.
@apfel33
The RP is a bit strange. But I’ll list what to expect here:
1) Yes companies buying tons of nuclear weapons
2) Yes people are crazy and want to destroy the world
3) People like to cause problems or try stupid things such as sailing Superstructure-less Battlecruisers without a bilge pump into uncharted rocky and insane storms expecting to survive.
4) There are imperialists looking to absorb and take over smaller territories
5) There are people smart enough to destroy nations by using internal problems as a way to cause your collapse without firing a single shot.
6) There are people who go beyond unlikely Alternate History methods to make themselves seem stable (Though would be subject to the “Realism Bat”
But, the Federation is always here to help, serve, and protect the people of this and many other worlds(Servers) to come.
@randomusername Yup I’ll link it soon. I assume you mean the skybox.
@Pilotmario Don’t you have SRBMs which would pretty much do the same thing as this. There are also other ways to deploy nuclear devices tactically. Such as ones specially designed to fill the firepower gaps between modern conventional and nuclear weapons.
@KerlonceauxIndustries
Yeah, we don't really expect this level of an all out attack on the vessel. But it would be quite hard but not impossible by these strikes. Lasers travel faster than any projectile which by the time our two nations meet in era we would have powerful and numerous enough of them onboard to identify, target and destroy the reentry vehicles before impact with the Aegis combat system.
@Dizzle2233 Replace the missiles with normal ones or xml edit the "function" attribute to "AirToGnd"
I will likely upload an updated version with normal missiles later on.
I believe it would be more like around 50-60 Knots speed like the Sparviero-class patrol boat it was based off of. I would go for water jets instead of propellers for faster speeds.
Nice...
6:17 PM January 1st 2020
1069 Upvotes
I love this build, lol.
+5Maybe a muzzle flash for the WWII destroyers when they fire flak for aesthetic purposes.
Configurable muzzle flash size for guns.
Missiles can still guide themselves to targets even if they run out of fuel. (Boost phases for most missiles aren’t all the way to impact)
Fix issue where structural wings xml edited to have control surfaces don’t completely cease function (including lift) when any part of the plane is destroyed by a gun.
Activation group windows.
Zooming in cameras and cockpits.
Tracer glow visibility at longer distances.
Boss fight capital ships (Battleship or Battlecruiser).
Surface ship AI difficulty:
+5Easy: Current System.
Medium: More accurate targeting with guns and flak, faster and smarter missiles.
Difficult: Phalanx guns added to modern destroyers (Engage both planes and missiles shot at it), main guns switch to proximity fused rounds (flak), smarter Missiles. WWII destroyers fire off more accurate rounds.
The destroyer launched missiles don’t have a warhead. They use basically ram damage to bring down aircraft. But all plane launched missles have a warhead. When the missile explodes it usually sends an outward force which sends nearby blocks into each other causing them to explode. Which sucks because I can’t make a plane launched missile proof ship lol.
+4one more upvote my dudes... (1068 Upvotes)
+3Just saying...
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You’d have to be going much faster than Mach 2.5 to create a plasma sheath over your aircraft.
————
The plasma sheath also isn’t really stealth. It just blocks communication and radio waves from entering through it or leaving it. The signals are instead reflected rather than absorbed.
————
You’re also generating a lot of heat that can be seen on infrared sensors.
————
It is an interesting concept tho
@MrVaultech (StaffelKaptäin
+36371) had an "incident" and banned the entire opposing side to GUES and then I believe he stepped down and someone unbanned them.
.
After this, @Warbrine (Thatguychris(Kellogs Miniwheats)
Thatguychris
3998) was given leadership and deleted the server. Pretty much wasting all the progress on it.
Same, I thought it was me hitting Platinum that did it though.
+3Cool, you guys are back
+3@TheFantasticTyphoon
The heat depends on the viscosity of the air as friction occurs on its surface. So at lower altitudes it could generate a significant amount of heat but I doubt it would be enough to create a plasma sheath.
+2—————
Also... if a plasma sheath could even be created it wouldn’t absorb radar. The plasma sheath acts as a barrier to reflect waves coming in and out of the aircraft.
@MrVaultech most of your attack boats lacked close in defense systems or mid ring defense. You may have had spotting with you in the form of helicopters, but that can’t do much of you have very little ways to stop an attack.
+2.
He expected a very very large force and fired an excessive amount of missiles, that’s the issue. He sunk the peacekeeping force on lack of information canonically. (But outside of canon, he probably was just being a jerk, lol.)
.
I’ve used similar tactics to justify actions against nations but with arguably a better alibi. It’s a low blow but it’s valid.
.
Also, it’s not all about technology. Tactics play a role.
@MrVaultech
An explanation to that would be his use of carrier borne aircraft and mid air refuelling, allowing for aircraft to deployed from very very far away bases. (Falklands where they literally sent Bombers across the Atlantic from Europe using mid air refuelling to strike targets far south).
Depending on the types of ships, they can pretty quickly respond to landings (Fast Patrol Boats, Hydrofoils, maybe Ekranoplans if he’s into that). Destroyers can strike more than 250km away with cruise missiles. They don’t have to get within very close proximity if proper spotting is present such as low observable drones, forces already present, AWACS, satellite imaging or blindly firing a missile at the general area and hoping the seeker picks up a threat on its own.
+2@PyrusEnderhunter I still don't get what you mean by that.
@ChisP Kind of problematic due to scaling issues and the aerodynamics of some of my planes.
@Mickk You can, but you should disable the engine in the front of the ship (kind of hard to find) because of how planes don't have friction between each other.
@blueangelproduction @AWESOMENESS360 @spefyjerbf Thankyou!
+2@ColonelStriker ehh
+2It’s more like Submarines are the airships of the sea.
UCHU SENKAN YAA MAA TOO
+2We need more SBBY stuff xD
@GeneralOliverVonBismarck sure
+1Thankyou! @edensk
+1@randomusername
+1Sorry, I was testing suspension with tracks without using a mod and some things are a bit... off...? Works fine if you drive below 40mph though.
@Caden313 Thank you!
+1@MrVaultech
+1My main criticism was that you determined actions made by IDAFOR to be an issue when most of the tactics used were valid. Some rules were violated but the rules were problematic in themselves with obvious exploits unattended to in favour of your side.
.
You banned members of IDAFOR off of loose assumptions and refused evidence to their innocence.
.
A majority of IDAFOR members were little cause for concern and my main belief of your actions is that you were starting to have issues with holding your lines when I took command in the place of the banned player as the mass banning of IDAFOR members occurred within an hour of the advance into Iowa and Florida as well as the loss of Canada from their switch of sides.
.
I understand that IDAFOR, especially PilotMario, is a very difficult thing to deal with, considering their methods, but this level of action was not necessary. People have spent a long time trying to set the server up and just because of a losing battle, you chose to remove it all?
@altaccount Lol, sorry about that... it’s kinda extremely heavy because of some center of mass vs center of lift issues.
+1@CRJ900Pilot Thanks, I couldn't get it to separate because of some mass issues... cough 72,137 lbs cough
But I guess it flies ok, lol.
+1The main issues I see with this having the range that it does are:
-The missile is ground launched without any initial speed from a launch aircraft as well as...
-The size of the missile is only 6.7ft while the Hermes missile (The missile this was based on) is 11.4ft in length while only capable of hitting ground targets at 30km (Yours has about 98.17km range apparently).
Edit: Wait, it was vertically placed... my bad... lol
+1Woah, this looks amazing. A more rounded while stealthy shape too.
With a UAV inside? This is great!
+1@Jetliner101 Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Jimmy however wanted to make himself sound powerful so he picked something that sounded more like the USA.
+1@greasytortle "The Flying Above Ground" designer mod.
+1Thank you ChosenOne, Very Cool!
+1https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/4a174M/B-55-Sky-Castle
+1@ThomasRoderick Pretty much.
+1The Izumo is a World of Warships "paper ship" which was a proposed design for the Yamato class battleships that was scrapped. The proposed design was similar to the Rodney with the all forward turret layout but was rejected in favor of the two front and one aft layout.
@Sarin Not if you evenly distribute the rockets among targets.
But yes lol
+1@apfel33
The RP is a bit strange. But I’ll list what to expect here:
1) Yes companies buying tons of nuclear weapons
2) Yes people are crazy and want to destroy the world
3) People like to cause problems or try stupid things such as sailing Superstructure-less Battlecruisers without a bilge pump into uncharted rocky and insane storms expecting to survive.
4) There are imperialists looking to absorb and take over smaller territories
5) There are people smart enough to destroy nations by using internal problems as a way to cause your collapse without firing a single shot.
6) There are people who go beyond unlikely Alternate History methods to make themselves seem stable (Though would be subject to the “Realism Bat”
But, the Federation is always here to help, serve, and protect the people of this and many other worlds(Servers) to come.
+1@randomusername Yup I’ll link it soon. I assume you mean the skybox.
+1@Pilotmario Don’t you have SRBMs which would pretty much do the same thing as this. There are also other ways to deploy nuclear devices tactically. Such as ones specially designed to fill the firepower gaps between modern conventional and nuclear weapons.
@Speedhunter Please use anything from my creations. I don’t mind at all. Just mention me in the description.
+1@Speedhunter sure, I don’t mind.
+1@Speedhunter Sorry, I don't plan to release any requested parts singularly. I'll get all requests for parts done all in one at some point.
+1@Roswell not sure, I just thought maybe people want a lower speed without the wrestling with the throttle.
+1@Crazyinferno376 You mean, like the missile kills the ship its on? I'm confused, and I'm not sure thats possible.
+1@Pilotmario Its not 1:1, I'm gonna just pretend they are since scaling likes to screw me over.
+1@Speedhunter I can probably do this. But I have trouble with having angled sides transition to curved forward areas.
+1@Speedhunter sure.
+1Wow, this looks nice. May I use some of these as part of the council RP?
+1@KerlonceauxIndustries
+1Yeah, we don't really expect this level of an all out attack on the vessel. But it would be quite hard but not impossible by these strikes. Lasers travel faster than any projectile which by the time our two nations meet in era we would have powerful and numerous enough of them onboard to identify, target and destroy the reentry vehicles before impact with the Aegis combat system.
@Dizzle2233 Replace the missiles with normal ones or xml edit the "function" attribute to "AirToGnd"
+1I will likely upload an updated version with normal missiles later on.
@EternalDarkness Yeah, I forgot to tone it down when I was trying to catch up with someone on MP.
+1I believe it would be more like around 50-60 Knots speed like the Sparviero-class patrol boat it was based off of. I would go for water jets instead of propellers for faster speeds.
+1Tag me!
+1What values are set for the dragScale? Is it high drag, low drag, or no drag?
@JackTheBestBoss Don’t worry, I’ll post variants an update links in the description, including downscaled versions and tactical improvements.
+1@SIRFRANK777 Thanks!
Invite link is in description. Notify me if it's expired.
@Cutterz68 My fictional nation
The Royal Iridium Federation
Nice tank!
@Liensis Shoot...
Nope.
Whoops...