We Want To Hear Your Ideas For A New Map In DCS!

[Rick50]

On 1/11/2024 at 5:57 AM, rkk01 said:

Genuinely don’t understand the desire for a global map…

 

Sure, fair question! 

Ok, how about instead of a somewhat sterile environment... instead you have a dynamic campaign? And/or a "game Dungeon Master" who is manually adding AI units and giving them commands, to an ongoing battlespace. (Sorry, I'm not into D&D myself but thought that was the best descriptor). The extra space allows for special operations sneak attacks on the rear echelon, in regions that simply don't exist in DCS right at this time.

 

Another reason is that DCS is evolving. Not in a bad way, but there are new types on the near horizon. For a long time, you only had trainers, and "basic" fighters, and a couple of warbirds. Today, there's a whole squadron  of warbirds, a whole squadron of Gen 4 fighters, a whole squadron of transport AND attack helicopters, soon many Cold War birds will appear,  starting with the Phabulous Phantom ... and soon we'll get logistic units in the forms of Mighty Chinook, C-47 Dakota, and Super Hercules. The Hercules' range and combat radius exceeds all the maps we have. Add in air  to air refuel, and it's hobbled massively  by the maps. 

Similarly, there are many AI aircraft that have radius and range FAR exceeding today's maps. I think of the B-52 and B-2 especially, but the Galaxy, Bear, Bone, the big Antonovs... all have absolutely MASSIVE fuel range. We'll probably need KC-10 and KC-46 at some point.

Future possibilities for DCS flyable  modules, featuring longer range aircraft, when DCS gets a global map, could include the A-6 Intruder, F-111 Vaark, SU-24 Fencer, B-17 Flying Fort, Lancaster, C-17 and IL-76, and "maybe" the TU-22M Backfire but that might be too complex and have issues with Russian MOD. 

Maybe you want nothing to do with these "boring" aircraft, and rather scream around at Mach 2 with your hair on fire, but I bet there's a lot of potential new customers who would want to fly the interesting but maybe a little more calm missions. Meaning, it'll be good for ED and the 3rd party module makers, but also good for the world environment, the immersion factor... it also gives more missions for the fighter pilots, having to escort the defenceless aircraft, not in single scripted mission, but as a real matter of saving your logistical tail from being wiped out, perhaps leading to a surprise early end to the campaign!!

[HARTMANN1145]

What about opening up a Germany map to the Warbirds...surely a must have!

[Talvid]

If you're going to make a fictional map.  I would suggest a map on the planet Mars, in the future when it has been terra-formed.  Imagine the physics differences of lesser gravity.  Assume that humans have managed to cultivate an atmosphere of similar composition of gases Nitrogetn Argon and Oxygen like on Earth.  While you're at it, please make an underground airbase, where the runway is actually underground and there's only about 1/4 mile of it protruding out into the open air, so we must land on it and coast into the cave that houses hangars, and maintenance stations-all the things you would need at an airbase.  The takeoff would be awesome, running up to speed from inside a lamp-lit cave/bunker and rotating up when reaching the open end of the tunnel.  

[One Eyed Ross]

So, with the F-4U in the pipeline, and the WW2 Marianas Map coming....for those of us that love the PTO, could we throw in a Solomon Islands map on the Wish List for "some day"?  Would be great to fly the slot from Henderson up to Bouganville, or even New Britain.  That whole area was massively important during the war....

[Rick50]

On 1/29/2024 at 2:59 PM, Talvid said:

If you're going to make a fictional map.  I would suggest a map on the planet Mars, in the future when it has been terra-formed.  Imagine the physics differences of lesser gravity.  Assume that humans have managed to cultivate an atmosphere of similar composition of gases Nitrogetn Argon and Oxygen like on Earth.  While you're at it, please make an underground airbase, where the runway is actually underground and there's only about 1/4 mile of it protruding out into the open air, so we must land on it and coast into the cave that houses hangars, and maintenance stations-all the things you would need at an airbase.  The takeoff would be awesome, running up to speed from inside a lamp-lit cave/bunker and rotating up when reaching the open end of the tunnel.  

I  think both "A-10 Cuba!" and a few iterations of X-plane had Mars flight... In  Xplane they even offered custom planes  to have fun in flying around Mars! The result was real flight.... but you also saw it was not especially practical for the real world!  I think Cuba! might not have had Mars specifically, but a couple of space-themed multiplayer envioronments with asteroids and such.

12 hours ago, One Eyed Ross said:

So, with the F-4U in the pipeline, and the WW2 Marianas Map coming....for those of us that love the PTO, could we throw in a Solomon Islands map on the Wish List for "some day"?  Would be great to fly the slot from Henderson up to Bouganville, or even New Britain.  That whole area was massively important during the war....

Yep, great idea. Actually already  suggested!

 

Two things to consider before holding your breath though:

- that area is WAY larger than any other map in DCS

- huge amount of forests and foliage, thus facing the same rendering bottleneck as a Korea or Vietnam map.

 

However, Kola map appears to have a large area, and most of it forested heavily... so this might be solvable already

[CaptScotty]

On 7/26/2021 at 6:39 AM, MNissen said:

my 10 cents,

 

Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma,Thailand

With all the era jets we have, a south east asia map would be great!!!!

[Talvid]

I want an Iowa, Illinois border map so I can reenact this photo I shot today of a Chinook flying IFR in IMC at Quad Cities Airport.