Apollo11
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Hi all, quote:
ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag Hmm, what about this: Doctor the loadout in this kind of manner when on any form of ship attack (including ports) B-17 instead of 12x 500lb goes in with 2x 2000 lb B-24 instead of 16x 500lb goes in with 3x 2000 lb B-29 instead of 40x 500lb goes in with 4x 4000 lb This has a double effect. It dramatically reduces the bombs dropped yet should any of those bombs hit, they are going to be devastating. The problem is this obviously requires coding. Leo, if you want to run some more tests, hack the planes up in this manner and rerun them. This idea is interesting but I see some problems already: #1 What about 2 engine bombers (in my tests I proved that B-25 was equally deadly in port attacks)? #2 What about "Normal" / "Extended" range differences? #3 What about attack on port (i.e. facilities) itself? IMHO much much better way would be diminishing returns where just portion of bombers would have ago at ships themselves while other would just bomb the port itself (i.e. facilities there).... Explanation: Right now in current WitP it appears that all of them have a go at both anchored ships and port facilities. What if we set that just certain proportion of bombers are able to go for ship bombing (and that proportion of bombers would be determined by port size since the bigger the port the bigger is the room for bombers to maneuver over it)? I am thinking about following formula: Number_of_bombers_attacking_ships = Number_of_bombers_in_attack x Port_size x 0.0333 Since biggest port is size 10 this would mean that in such case 33% of attacking bomber would have a go at ships itself while 66% would b bombing port facilities itself. Port size 10 -> 33% of attacking aircraft can attack ships Port size 9 -> 30% of attacking aircraft can attack ships Port size 8 -> 27% of attacking aircraft can attack ships Port size 7 -> 23% of attacking aircraft can attack ships Port size 6 -> 20% of attacking aircraft can attack ships Port size 5 -> 16% of attacking aircraft can attack ships Port size 4 -> 13% of attacking aircraft can attack ships Port size 3 -> 10% of attacking aircraft can attack ships Note: since ships can't be disbanded in port sizes 1 and 2 I didn't write them at all Example: 100x B-29's attacking Port size 6. 20x B-29's attacking ships, 80x B-29's attacking port facilities. What do you think gentleman? Leo "Apollo11" P.S. [Edit] Numbers/percentage are provisional of course but, IMHO, would serve purpose rather well...
< Message edited by Apollo11 -- 12/19/2004 8:03:37 PM >
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