Is there a New Maps thread?

[Ramstein]

Is there a New Maps thread? How about a BS Middle East map. Lots of action is happening there.. :pilotfly:

[Eagle Driver]

The general consent is "possibly in a later module."

So... mark you calendar for 2009?

[MBot]

Good idea, it is an interesting subject to talk about.

 

What I would like to know is if the map of BS, the enhanced current map, is fit for the future. How drastical will the changes be with the new engine that is planned to come with the A-10 module? Would that new engine be able to use the current map, or would the change in technology be too big? Then comes the question whether ED would want to invest the time and upgrade the current map with the new technology or built it up from scratch again if needed. Or would ED be interested in moving to another theater?

 

 

What would be a criteria a new theater would have to fullfill? Is that something that could depend on the military projects line? Personaly I have a hard time to figure out a new theater. I have several ideas I would love to see, but they are all tied to specific scenarios and planes. For the A-10A and AH-64A I would love to see a germany map. The Fulda-gap for me is just what these planes were meant to exist for. The same would apply to the early Harriers, the Jaguar, the Su-17 or MiG-27 for example. For a Hind I could see Fulda or Afghanistan. For a F-14 on the other I would go with Lybia or Iran-Iraq. You see, it depends a lot on what a theater would have to support. The question is what ED is planning for the future, do they have a complete scenario layed out they want to create, or are they going to add each flyable "for the flyables sake"? In the latter it will be realy difficult to find a theater that provides all possibilitys and wont limit them later. It should support US, russian and possibily european intervention, opposition of adequate strenght, support helicopter and fighter operations, include naval operations and be somehow believable. What theater would fullfill such requirements?

[Geier]

The general consent is "possibly in a later module."

So... mark you calendar for 2009?

It's better to say 20nn:P

[Yellonet]

I still would like to see a India / Pakistan map, it's a hot area so a threatre there would be believable, it's good geographically with lots of different terrain and perhaps most importantly it would pit west vs. east equipment against eachother, India has MiG-29, Pakistan has F-16. Perfect IMO :)

[ANGST]

My votes on general modern theaters ....

 

Venezuela

 

Pakistan / India

 

Israel / Syria / Egypt

 

Sudan / Ethiopia / Somalia

 

Iran

 

Taiwan

[Geier]

I wish the Afghanistan map... Oh, dreams...

[HungaroJET]

"Old" middle-european battle/front-line (NATO<-->W.P.) theatre should B great too

...from West-Germany to Poland

...from Austria to Romania

...from Italy to Bulgaria

 

...oh yes ...i know it's too HUGE :D

[amalahama]

I prefer ED give us some tools for doing all that!. New comunity scenery aren't multiplayer problematic (I think), and every of us can do his wet dream's battle.

 

Regards!!

[joey45]

Walesh mountians or the Scaotish Glenns to pratice in i says...

[Boberro]

I prefer ED give us some tools for doing all that!. New comunity scenery aren't multiplayer problematic (I think), and every of us can do his wet dream's battle.

 

Regards!!

 

Yes ED should give us needed tools to creating terrains, modify game ect. Look at MSFS - even Microsoft's game is very flexible and is more popular than ED product, many new terrain's meshes, new airports, ect. I don't know why ED still goes to independent creating game than give us needed tools to make its game more popular = more prestige = more $$ in future = bigger company = delight of ED and its creators.

[joey45]

be careful cos it might end up like ofp with addons... they'll be 50 Addons the same but with there own Dis/Advancages.

[Wdigman]

Does any one know how large a map could be? Currrently we have the entire Black Sea, most of that is just flat ground. Could ther be a map that has the entire Mediterrainian sea? What about Pakistan and India would these be too large memory wise to have in DCS? I wouldent mind a Korea Map but could that same map have parts of Russia all of Japan and maybe Taiwan or is this just entirely too large to have in one game.

 

Amalahama, I like the idea of getting us the tools to create maps but for consistancy sake there needs to be a way to manage that information. I would hate to see 5 koreas and 6 Iraqs all with there merits and short commings. If ED could give us the world broken in grids as a starting point then maybe the community could build the cities and towns as well as the airbases. Kind of like google earth you have the terrain and textures if you want to model your own town fine, it will take time but here is Sketchup and the tools to place th finished object in the World. Go take pics of your land marks and build the model textue it and put it in the map, repeat untill a city or region is complete then upload your creation so others can download and enjoy. Google does this as well as a game called SimCity. I wouldent imagine that this would be hard to do but from what I read about how ED creates maps it take a long time to manually place buildings and Roads.