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dis80786

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  1. Great ideas here folks, keep them coming! I’ve added this one to the initial post, nerfed Tilbury Power Station, & Chain Home. I’m watching this thread and will add as the corking ideas come up.
  2. Pass on my respects to Robin. Absolutely outstanding work.
  3. Aren’t there rumours we’re getting the real thing with the Pacific map? Or did I mishear that?
  4. Yup! I've updated my link. Thanks for that :) I can't take all the credit, but thanks. Let's hope this gets read by ED.
  5. Absolutely right, and I included a cracking link to a website detailing these missing airfields. Again, absolutely correct: it is only a game. But Normandy was a resounding miss for me and so, like many others, I was hoping for a better showing for WW2 this time around. My only point is that this map is enjoyable but, with a little more polish, it could be astounding!
  6. Done: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=277412
  7. Reckon we need the current bits to be improved first, but yes, expansion would be cool and certainly welcome!
  8. Looking at two other threads (here and here) from elsewhere in these forums, I am in complete agreement. I'm sure many of you are too: the Channel Map in Early Access is good, but it NEEDS some work to make it great. At the moment we have a Jack-of-all-trades map, which will be usable by jets and WW2 planes alike. But it's not a WW2 map and it needs refining with both more of some stuff and less of other stuff to make it feel that way. It's worth condensing those two threads into this wishlist for convenience. (I can't comment on northern France, but I should imagine the wishlist is similar! Can any French people shed some light?) In summary, the following: The area of SE England depicted in this map had little heavy industry in the 1940's. It was predominantly horse-and-cart agriculture, with seaside towns catering for London holidaymakers. The huge housing expansion on the South coast which is shown in-map started from the 1950's to house those misplaced by the Blitz, so for WW2 accuracy the vast majority of these houses simply didn't exist, and neither did all those industrial estates. This map is massively over-populated; even modern-day housing estates are represented! Removing post-1950's housing will help us with immersion and may help us with performance as, in most cases, these housing estates would have been open fields in the 1940's, saving GPU cycles. A fantastic reference site full of mapping done in that period can be viewed here. Outside of the towns, Sussex and Kent were then (and are still largely) an agricultural landscape, and the inclusion of huge, random factories in the middle of nowhere, rather than barns, oast houses, churches and windmills, is immersion-destroying when scudding at low level over the trees after a German. But the omission of major landmarks not only renders VMC navigation far harder than it should be, but is frankly astounding when there is so much data available for free in the public domain. Others are a little more nit-picky and nice-to-haves. In no real order: -Add the 16-or-so missing RAF airfields: full map here. -Add Pre-Beeching railways: Cuckoo Line, Uckfield - Lewes, East Grinstead - Lewes,etc. -Add Dover Marine Station (See link, here) -Depopulate the map, nerf industrial estates. -Replace out-of-town industry with farms: add oast house/barn/church/windmill assets, -Add Pevensey/Bodiam/Rochester/Camber/etc. castles. -Add Rochester and Canterbury cathedrals. -Add Seaford Head and cliffs. -Add a few bombed-out house assets (coastal towns suffered greatly from German tip-and-run raids; my grandmother was strafed by a Bf. 109 in Hastings! He missed, thankfully...) as well as pillboxes/emplacements/anti-invasion defenses/Chain Home RADAR stations, etc. -Add anti-invasion defences to the beaches (see picture of Eastbourne beach later in this thread) -Add missing piers, including Eastbourne. -Add Newhaven Breakwater & Fort. Overhaul Port. Remove industrial estates on east bank & replace with carriage works. Add jetties. -Dungeness: Remove Nuclear power station (yes, really...), remove Lydd-on-Sea; -Add Dungeness & Belle Tout lighthouses -Add Whitstable Harbour. -Remove all reservoirs (1970's constructions). -Remove: Sovereign Harbour marina at Eastbourne: not built until 1990's. -Add Coastguard cottages at Birling Gap and Cuckmere Haven -Add famous seafront hotels in Eastbourne -Add Martello Towers. -Add Hastings Bathing Pool, Harbour Arm and net-drying huts at Rock-an-Ore. Perhaps a large majority of people flying over this map have no idea what the south of England actually looks like, and to some of them it doesn’t matter at all. But why is hell raised if every rivet is not present and correct on the aircraft we fly (right down to an unpainted screw on a botched repair on the instrument panel of the new P-47D), yet ignore the terrain it flies over? Have the lessons of the Normandy map been learned? Why not raise the bar slightly for the the maps too? Any other glaring omissions/requests/praise?
  9. A good idea, and you're right. I'll try and do a ranking of sorts, but nobody is ever going to agree on what is and isn't important. I'll copy it over on to the wishlist now.
  10. Should we transfer all this to the Wishlist, do your think?
  11. A wee bit of Wee Speck! (Sorry, can't embed from Google docs)
  12. To that, may I add: Historical railways Pevensey/Bodiam/Rochester/Camber etc castles Windmills Sussexmillsgroup.org and oast houses (see why I say so, below) Seafront hotels in Eastbourne Coastguard cottages at Birling Gap and Cuckmere Haven Hastings Bathing Pool, White-Rock gardens, Harbour Arm and net-drying huts at Rock-an-Ore General sea-front fortifications: where are all the pillboxes, barbed wire, hedgehogs on the beaches etc of a country faced with invasion three years prior to this map? Sussex was then, and still is largely, an agricultural landscape, and then inclusion of modern industrial/housing estates and random factories in the middle of nowhere, rather than oast houses and windmills, is immersion-destroying. Yes, perhaps a large majority of people flying over this map have no idea what the south of England actually looks like, and to some of them it doesn’t matter at all. But to a significant group of people, to see such omissions is jarring. View this in the context of the Normandy map. That was a huge missed opportunity and the southeast of England existed only as a green splodge with airfields dotted around, effectively denying the community a third of the map they can legitimately have expected to receive before it launched. I also remember flying a Spitfire Mk. 1 over ‘London’ in IL2 CoD and noting the omission even of St Paul’s Cathedral, that symbol of the Blitz, and being astounded. The Channel map could have been what we were waiting for, but as of now it falls short. Finally, we make damn sure that every rivet is present and correct on the virtual aircraft we fly, right down to an unpainted screw on a botched repair on the instrument panel of the new P-47D. I am not suggesting every single building should be accurately modelled and precisely placed, but between Holbeach’s suggestions and my own, if implemented, would make the DCS Channel Map an industry-leading product and mean that I never leave my PC again! That and these landmarks are vital for easy visual navigation. Would love to hear the views of those who know a northern France well too.
  13. Yes. Hastings Pier burned down in the 00's, and has been completely rebuilt since. The in-game version is exactly how it looked in the 1940's. Almost all other buildings in game are generic.
  14. I agree. I actually live in one of the towns on the map; there would have been a railway which ran through it in the 1940's which isn't there on the map; no sign of Eastbourne Pier although Hastings Pier is looking great; Beachy Head Lighthouse is there but no Belle Tout Lighthouse; Hastings has no net-drying sheds on the seafront; use of generic bridges on Pevensey Levels and Rye Flats which looks terrible; no windmills anywhere (there are heaps IRL) ; I can go on but you get the idea. I might sound a bit gripey, but these are major landmarks by which one navigates around the south-east of England, and to see them missing just jars a bit Obviously I am aware this is early access and there are a great deal more work to be done but all I am saying is that I hope this all gets fleshed out a bit in the future. BTW my FPS is high 30's - low 40's in VR, so it's playable.
  15. Do this. But also, when they drop all of their bombs... well, they just haven't designed the CPU that can compute all that on one core and give decent performance too.
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