Option for True Fog Of War not the current messed up one

[robgraham]

It would be really nice if DCS offered another 'level' of Fog of War rather then the current.. not really Fog of War method To explain that a bit better, Currently in Fog of War if I am on Blue Coalition and I click on a Red Unit I get everything about it, Type, Player name, Altitude, GS, etc. Bit unrealistic right? I mean did the AWACS use a telescope to tell me that AC is captained by John Doe? It would be nice if instead in Fog of War I simply got a marker saying it's an Air unit until it reached the point where enough friendly contacts had gotten data on it to register it as a SU-27, but at no point should it tell me that it's Player X or Group Name Y etc as lets face it in a War situation really am I going to know that and It would also be nice if Fog of War respected proper detection as well, given you can have things showing up across the Map that AWACS/JSTARS or any other sane unit wouldn't be seeing at times.

 

The reasoning though is lets face it a LOT of PVP or PVP/PVE combined servers are forced to set their Map information to 'Allied Only' as the current fog of war breaks the whole purpose of a fog of war, can't see it on your radar or datalink? hit F10 chances are it's there, don't know if it's AI or a Player? Hit F10 click on it and find out and most times if its a player instantly attack it even if there are more pressing ai threats etc, and server owners and communities will flat out tell you that the F10 map is abused a lot this way because of that very reason.

 

Normally not to big of a deal you turn it off and people can use their sensors and awacs + markers or LOTATC etc that is until you start looking at using CA with anything and with the rumours of CA routing etc being 'fixed' in the upcoming patches servers might start using CA again, because Allied only really messes with a commanders ability to tell units to ENGAGE targets.

 

So again a proper fog of war would be nice to have rather then the current mess just give unit types and the like not names even, it would cut down on some of the cheating make CA useable as well..

 

It would also be nice if Observer slots ... Actually heeded what the settings were set to as well.