Two suggestions/requests for small but needed improvements (multiplayer)

[sturmkraehe]

I would like to make two suggestions respectively two requests for some minor but needed improvements.

 

1. Request

 

Current status:

When in multiplayer on a server, being in the briefing room and hitting START I have always up to five seconds loading with the map screen while my aircraft is already spawned. It already happened to me on several occasions when players of the opposite team where besieging the spawn area that I was hit and killed by a bomb or by strafing while still in the briefing room.

 

This needs to be changed imho as this is really annoying. 

 

Suggestions:

a) only spawn aircraft when loading has been finished and full control of aircraft is available for player

b) if a) is technically not possible: make aircraft and plane invulnerable until player has full control of aircraft after spawn.

c) if a) and b) is not possible: make aircraft and pilot invulnerable for 10s but with inability to override autopilot / horizontal autopilot during this period. Also inactivate weapons during this time period.

 

2. Request

 

Current status:

In spitfires 5 & 9 the virtual pilot occasionally presses the button to show fuel amount as far as I have seen. As there is currently no way to manually do this oneself one has to catch the right moment to check remaining fuel. This is strongly hampering a pilot online particularly on servers with full real settings. One has to permanently scan the area for enemy aircraft AND try to catch the right moment when to check fuel. Particularly when already some time in flight. This is not only unrealistic but also unrealistically putting drivers of these two planes into an unnecessary disadvantageous situation.

 

Suggestions:

a) allow players to manually press a key to show fuel amount

b) if a) is not possibly make the dial permanent. This may be not fully realistic but as it is now it is not realistic either and puts drivers of these two planes in a more difficult situation than others.

Edited May 15, 2021 by sturmkraehe