My 2017 Christmas Wish List

[DigitalEngine]

(First off, a disclaimer... )

I'm only doing this just for the Christmas Spirit & enjoyment of it all, and to record a few of my crazy DCS World wishes which have been rattling around in my Crystal Ball this year.

I understand that any wishes posted 24 day before Christmas are not likely to happen this Christmas. Not, unless Santa Clause was to release his complete elves workshop to Eagle Dynamics this month, and that's not happening, but they could make for a great 2019 Christmas present!

All of the 12 Wishes (a "Twelvetide") posted here are not on any "in progress" list, or "planned" list as far as I know, but are just that, a Christmas Wish list.

 

Now, for My Christmas Wish list...

 

1. A DCS B-17 Flying Fortresses Multi-Crewed/Player Module (this would be the Ultimate DCS World Babe, I'd hang posters of her on my garage walls, nose art and all, don't care what the misses says :bomb:)
2. For "Yo-Yo" to write and publish his memoirs "Fundamentals and Theories: Aeronautical Engine and Flight, Comprehensive Mathematics and Dynamics as Applied to Simulation", or some such as...
3. A DCS World, WWII time period, "Virtual Pilot Officers Club" for virtual reality, where we could meet, hang out, socialize, have a few drinks, maybe throw a couple of punches (it hurts a lot less in VR :punch:) before the missions. With time period avatar uniforms, and trackers for our mugs . If it gets too rowdy :drunk::chair:, the virtual MP's (moderators ) could police us...:police:. And, also, got to include a virtual dart board. Ok, other time period "Virtual Pilot Officers Clubs" also for you jet jocks.
    
4. A "Pro-Track Player/Video Editor & Recorder" module which has complete upgraded functionality such as reverse play, typical and expanded camera lens options, programmable track "key-frame markers" for camera positional movements, pan, zoom and focus functions, and etc, etc.., for easily capturing good camera shots and video effects of our missions, for the production of professional quality videos.
5. A "Pro-DCS Model Viewer" for us home cockpit builders, which will give us the dimensional, articulation arguments, and textural data necessary, and the ability to export this data into the best suitable "Fusion 360" file format, allowing us DCS World Cockpit builders to have the ability to design and fabricate an accurate, high quality, home cockpit using the materials and process which work best for each individuals circumstances. A better and "sanctioned" process than we now have.
6. As recently mentioned by others, a realistically (as much as possible anyway) modeled RF (radio frequency) environment, and procedures for us human and bot (AI) entities to communicate with each other and the bots in.
7. Wheel chocks for all the aircraft modules, and for the aircraft to be chocked at initialization (or at least, the option). This is like, aviation 101....:huh:
8. Animated Crew Chiefs and ground crews, for the animated marshaling, refueling, rearming, connecting and dis-connecting of ground and air power, chocking and removing of chocks. Also, how cool would it be see your crew chief on the wing, spinning up your Bf-109 inertia starter? And an animation of when you do something stupid, such as flood your engine, or hot starting it, or bring his bird in with the brakes smoking, your crew chief yells nice things at you, and throws a wrench a your canopy:helpsmilie:.
9. A time period (such s WWII, again, for example) virtual reality ground school, class room environment, with virtual bot (AI) and/or human instructors, where we can meet and learn with other DCS World Pilots (multi-player style), or only with other bot (AI) students (single-player style). With appropriate time period and subject matter curriculum, training aids, manuals, task, goals, etc.. Imaginations the limit on this, such as live DCS World symposiums, multi-player mission briefings, DCS World Address from the Eagle Dynamics Team, and so on...
10. As I recall, this was a wish Wags had mentioned in a video, but has since, as I recall in a later video, stated this is just not likely to happen. This wish is a high fidelity NTTR ground training range area for our Combine Arms assets. I'd really still like to see this. I wish Eagle Dynamics would revisit this ideal.
11. An updated, very comprehensive, in-dept manual for the DCS World Mission Editor, especially an extensive systematic explanation of all triggers, functions and flag operations, along with numerous examples of how to use triggers, functions, and flags from simple to complex solutions.
12. And last but not least, a DCS Harley Davidson Module :huh:. So before everyone Yaks-out on me about the sacrilegious thought of what a Harley has got do in a flight sim, well, it is Digital Combat Simulation World, and there is the Harley Davidson WLA, and the Harley Davidson XA-750 which would be really cool to zip around in the Normandy map on say, June 6th to September 1944, especially in virtual reality. And yes, a Harley is just kinda an American thing...

If you'd like to chime in on the wishes you'd like to see under your DCS World Christmas tree this year, ur, well ok, maybe Christmas 2019, please do so.

 

But, please, please, please, keep this as a fun and enjoyable discussion on the wishes you'd want under your DCS Christmas tree for whatever reason you want,

and please, not any,

"I don't want you to get the wish you want because then Santa Clause's elves will not have the capability to give me the wishes that I want, because my wish is better than yours for xx reason and yours is a waste of resources, waa waa, waa...", type post.

 

Beside, that'd put you on Santa's bad boy list, and none of us would get your wish then....:cry:

 

Yep, I got a lot's of spare time today....

 

Edited February 12, 2021 by DigitalEngine

[Jester986]

A multicrew B-17? I'd pay ALOT for that!

[Ironhand]

A reliable, robust TRK recording system...

[MegOhm_SD]

2019 so far out but it’s never too early I guess. Multi-crew B-17 sure! Also, a multi-crew AC-130 gunship would make my day!

 

But Simply for me and hoping for 2017...

I just wish for the great 2.5 unification and The F18. The new Carrier and SoH would be a Bonus.

 

Ho-Ho-Ho!

Edited December 1, 2017 by MegOhm_SD

[cichlidfan]

I am making a list

And checking it twice

You've got twenty four days

To be naughty or nice

 

:santa:

[MegOhm_SD]

A reliable, robust TRK recording system...

 

Amen to that!