Raven King Posted August 25, 2020 Posted August 25, 2020 (edited) Hi everybody. Please correct me if I missed something but as far as I can see, for the Tactical Cmdr or the Jtac/Operator is enough that a ground asset drives by or a friendly aircraft flies close to any enemy target, (either land, sea or air) for it to be immediately marked on the CGI screen. That kind of multi-sensor-fusion-and-network-automatic-integration is the realm of 4++ and 5th generation fighters like the Super Hornet, Typhoon, F-22/35/Su-50, but if you are thinking on a mission with F-5s against Mig-21s is totally unrealistic, let alone a WWII scenario... Therefore, I wish ED could make it possible for mission developers to decide which A.I. units of any type can "electronically share" with the Cmdr/Jtac/Operator what they can see. Kind of a Visual Recon Option for A.I. that you can activate or deactivate for each unit, similar to the "Radio usage when contact/engage/kill target" that we already have but related only to the display on the map. With that "auto-recon" disabled for units controlled by humans, the Commander gets only what EWRs detect in the air, by triangulation of active enemy radars (like now) or what allied units selectively report through the CVR mode on the ground, and just for a limited, pre-determined ammount of time if the detected contacts moves, to force constant updates by recon units. All this customizable separately for Blues and Reds. I know this sounds like a letter to Santa, but that would allow for more realism, raises the importance of commanders and operators (who would actually get quite a handful of work!), maybe reduces the ammount of computational processes and certainly makes for excellent "Armed Reconnaissance Missions". I would also love if the Tactical cmdr could only see air units and the Jtac/Operator could see only ground assets and targets. BTW: An option for dedicated "Air-to-air" AWACS and "Air-to-ground" Joint Stars, each linked to one of the aforementioned slots would be wonderful too! Right now, you set up an AWACS and it starts automatically picking up both. Please excuse me if somebody already brought up this topic and I failed to see it. Greetings, Luis Edited August 25, 2020 by Saurophaganax
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