Early-Access modules could have more notices/disclaimers - C.W. Lemoine notices FM inaccuracies

Worrazen · November 16, 2021

Hi

Now it appears FM is indeed not finalized as F-16 is still in deep Early-Access, but I think occasional DCS players may not be fully aware or easily forget forget about it that things are WIP and they're playing varying degrees of E-A products in many cases.

Now I'm not saying that Lemoine doesn't know about E-A, he only pointed out what seemed unrealistic, without mentioning E-A or anything else, so I may be speculating myself and I can't say one way or the other, but this is a good example to bring up an idea that I already had for some time, for other cases and future, as well as for other modules.

The Idea:

Perhaps E-A Modules could be identified as such across all of DCS, I would include "(EA)" suffix in the default name of the airplane in the Mission Editor including the labels (if enabled) in-game. "EA" does appear in the Main Menu bottom module reel already, but for F/A-18C (I do not have F-16C) it does not appear in the Missions,Campaigns, Training, Instant Action and Special Options pages on the left side, also a good place where it should. I would even go as far as to show by default an easily dismissable on-screen under-construction-sign style notification box on every mission start of a unit part of an Early Access module, containing a disclaimer Early Access state and unfinalized systems and flight model etc. Such a message could be completely disabled but it should take an explicit user action in the options screen to disable it, "Never show E-A warning at mission start", for example. But this in-game pre-flight warning sign should be made as unannoying as possible, it could be part of the usual welcome screen that is always there and everyone would just hit "FLY" button as we all have to do already, that might work even better, so the bottom portion would be extended and a YELLOW-BLACK construction-style warning box be added there, should be big-bold and colored enough to get immediate eye attention !

Thank you for consideration, I think there's been so much unnnecessary confusion and negative comments against ED just because people forget what they're experiencing is E-A and I think ED should be proactive against unfair criticism in other ways and this one of the ways and probably a lot more effective than defending on the forums, if people get that notification right there I think it eases the pressure because the boiler is quicker released of steam and not allowed to pile up, if people's steam keeps rising and finally goes enough for them to come to the forums to complain then that steam even if it's starts getting released by a good reassuring forum reply may still take some time to lower down because so much of it was built-up, if that works as an analogy

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