Vessel lights

[Madone]

I was doing a night mission on shore, had to strike a civilian transport ship and I realized they have no lights so it made spotting and sorting a lot harder. I would love to see nav lights on ships similar to what we have for antennas or high buildings in cities. Now I'm by no mean a sailor so I searched for some docs to see what it should be like, but basically it's like a plane! Red/green for sides and white for stern/mast visibility up to ~3 miles. I live nearby an important harbor and when I look over the sea horizon at night I can spot the green and white lights pretty well! Not in DCS... However, warships shouldn't be on the list I guess.

 

This would make the experience much better for carrier ops as well as night ops near the shore in general! What do you think?

 

[Northstar98]

A lot of ships actually do have lights already, the issue with all the civillian ships, is that they're all super old models; we're talking LOMAC (~17 years old) or even Flanker 2.5 (~19 years old) so that might be the reason for the lack of navigation lights.

 

In any case I'd love there to be a set option command in advanced waypoint actions controlling light usage.

 

One thing I will say about operations near the coast are working lighthouses and maybe even buoys. 

Edited December 27, 2020 by Northstar98

[Madone]

@Northstar98 oh yeah I'm only talking about civilian ships here and in fact I wanted to include lighthouses and buoys but I wasn't sure if already in game. If it's not then yeah "some of this too" hehe.

[Northstar98]

3 hours ago, Madone said:

@Northstar98 oh yeah I'm only talking about civilian ships here and in fact I wanted to include lighthouses and buoys but I wasn't sure if already in game. If it's not then yeah "some of this too" hehe.

 

In that case, it's probably due to the age of the assets as to why they don't have any lights.

Edited December 28, 2020 by Northstar98