On Thursday 10 May 2007 18:52, Curtis Olson wrote: > There are some people involved in the FG project that do not enthusiasticly > embrace weapons and are not excited about combat functionality. > > I think the goal here should be to tread cautiously, respect people's views > and opinions on the matter, and from the other side, remember this is an > open source project and there is a certain amount of freedom involved here > that I would like to protect.
I am one of those who are not enthusiastic about adding weapons to FlightGear. However, if combat capability is added, I think we would need to limit its scope. In my opinion, putting cannons on to planes is acceptable, but dropping bombs on ground is pushing it. As to missiles and other "smart" weapons, I think they should be banned out right. Also, with cannons, a player must get into certain range to another for the weapons to be useful. So, the planes of the "naughty" ones can be rigged to explode if they are on an intercept course and are too close to an unarm aircraft. Ampere ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
