Asia-Pacific Wishlist Thread

[upyr1]

yes, we got the corsair coming sowe need the slots. also with recent events I think there could be a modern version (especially the soloman islands)  

 

[upyr1]

On 1/1/2022 at 7:18 AM, Mogster said:

In my opinion China Sea would be a great map for DCS. For a dynamic campaign you could even have carrier air group battles, scenarios like this. 
 

Is there a better use of the FA18 and Super Carrier?

 

It would also be a good use for ship modules 

[CarbonFox]

On 12/22/2021 at 10:02 AM, BIGNEWY said:

threads merged. 

We have no plans for a Taiwan terrain. 

Please ensure you keep the topic away from real world politics. 

thanks

Would a map of the Senkaku Islands along with Okinawa also be out of the question?

On topic:

Taiwan would be a fantastic map.

[upyr1]

5 hours ago, CarbonFox said:

Would a map of the Senkaku Islands along with Okinawa also be out of the question?

Okinawa was the sight of a world war II battle 

[Beirut]

On 12/25/2021 at 5:30 PM, Rick50 said:

What's interesting about this situation, without the political aspect...

 

The blowing up of everything, of course.  

 

Mayhem is its own reward. 

[Mike Force Team]

Looking at older forum posts that suggest a Strait of Taiwan map going back a few years, ED said no to the map. 

So, the next best thing would be the south Atlantic map. It should be released soon.

The runner-up map could be the Marianas Island map.

Edited May 11, 2022 by Mike Force Team

[Mogster]

On 12/25/2021 at 10:30 PM, Rick50 said:

What's interesting about this situation, without the political aspect...

 

... is that ED is wanting/hoping to develop a global map. Meaning the whole world. Maybe not in super high details for all of it, the details have yet to be figured out and likely won't be made public for years. It's very early days for this, in something that might take 5 to 10 years.

 

BUT... that island and the straight would presumably be included in such a global map. Maybe in that area of the world it won't be labled or "aligned" one way or the other... 

 

I can see what makes a global map attractive though. Include everything and you can’t be accused of including politically sensitive areas by preference…

For DCS it’s still difficult as users are going to want historical maps for historical scenarios. The MSFS map great as it is wouldn’t be much use for 40s Europe, 50s Korea, 70s Vietnam etc etc.

[CarbonFox]

18 hours ago, upyr1 said:

Okinawa was the sight of a world war II battle 

Pretty much why I asked about it if Taiwan is an absolute no which appears to be the case. In current era, it's home to a major US Marine base as well as the JASDF's Naha airbase. Like the Mariana's, it could play to both historic and a "what-if" modern scenario.

[upyr1]

15 minutes ago, CarbonFox said:

Pretty much why I asked about it if Taiwan is an absolute no which appears to be the case. In current era, it's home to a major US Marine base as well as the JASDF's Naha airbase. Like the Mariana's, it could play to both historic and a "what-if" modern scenario.

The issue with Taiwan, is the simple fact the Chinese government gets butt hurt over anything that depicts Taiwan as an independent nation. Except for historical Chinese civil war or World War II scenarios anything with the straits of Taiwan would require the Republic of China as a faction.  A modern Okinawa map, like the Marianas might be doable, as long as Taiwan isn't on the map. The entire point to the China asset pack is to do what if scenarios in Asia, just not Taiwan

Edited May 12, 2022 by upyr1

[CarbonFox]

On 5/12/2022 at 11:07 AM, upyr1 said:

The issue with Taiwan, is the simple fact the Chinese government gets butt hurt over anything that depicts Taiwan as an independent nation. Except for historical Chinese civil war or World War II scenarios anything with the straits of Taiwan would require the Republic of China as a faction.  A modern Okinawa map, like the Marianas might be doable, as long as Taiwan isn't on the map. The entire point to the China asset pack is to do what if scenarios in Asia, just not Taiwan

 

Not to get "political" but I'm not sure what ED has to fear from the Chinese government getting their jimmies rustled over Taiwan being depicted in a map. 

[BIGNEWY]

Yeah we do not want to get political. 

We have mentioned it before, we have no plans for Taiwan currently. 

thanks

[king1hw]

This only neednulls to be onullne map it is ALL WATER LOL!  From Hawaii to Darwin...null

[CarbonFox]

I think this would have alot of potential as it has both historical and modern relevance.

Obviously with a modern setting, you have already:

Kadena AB

MCAS Futenma

JASDF Naha.

[Baltic Dude]

Iwo Jima makes more sense than Okinawa...

[Phantom88]

Okinawa makes Perfect sense....with The WWII addition of The Marianas.....Follow The Rising Sun!!!

探検家

 

[Mr_sukebe]

I'd like to see Okinawa, but for me, it would seem to be more sensible to mix it in with parts of south Japan.

 

Iwo Jima is massively closer to the Marianas islands, i.e. 1300km, and could be added to the map we already have.

[_Hoss]

15 hours ago, Baltic Dude said:

Iwo Jima makes more sense than Okinawa...

Duder, Iwo Jima lasted a week, with the USN and USMC, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall if there where any big Naval, or air engagements at Iwo?... Okinawa was over 80 days long with a running battle at sea and in the air too. The USN, USMC, USA are the main US brances, the RN had five Carriers, two BB's, seven Light Cruisers, fourteen Destroyers. Corsairs, Hellcats, Avengers, Helldivers, and the RN A/C on their carriers. Okinawa ran from April 1st, to June 21st, and we get to sink the Yamato. The engagements that comprise the Battle of the Philippines Sea are of great interest too. Three running battles, Battle of the Philippines Sea, (June 19/20) Battle of Leyte Gulf, and it's Battle of Suragao Straights, San Bernardino Straights, Oct. 24, 25, 1944, and we get to sink the Musashi, and survive incessant Kamikaze attacks. And there is land mass in the P.I. where the IJA medium bombers can launch from, or for us to attack. New Guinea, Guadalcanal... all good for early plane sets.

Edited August 9, 2022 by 352nd_Hoss

[Mr_sukebe]

On 8/9/2022 at 3:55 AM, 352nd_Hoss said:

Duder, Iwo Jima lasted a week, with the USN and USMC, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall if there where any big Naval, or air engagements at Iwo?... Okinawa was over 80 days long with a running battle at sea and in the air too. The USN, USMC, USA are the main US brances, the RN had five Carriers, two BB's, seven Light Cruisers, fourteen Destroyers. Corsairs, Hellcats, Avengers, Helldivers, and the RN A/C on their carriers. Okinawa ran from April 1st, to June 21st, and we get to sink the Yamato. The engagements that comprise the Battle of the Philippines Sea are of great interest too. Three running battles, Battle of the Philippines Sea, (June 19/20) Battle of Leyte Gulf, and it's Battle of Suragao Straights, San Bernardino Straights, Oct. 24, 25, 1944, and we get to sink the Musashi, and survive incessant Kamikaze attacks. And there is land mass in the P.I. where the IJA medium bombers can launch from, or for us to attack. New Guinea, Guadalcanal... all good for early plane sets.

 

 

I agree completely with your logic. 

Just talking about map sizes and locations, Okinawa is fairly close to the Japanese mainland, and would probably be best covered by a map covering a an area that would hopefully include elements of southern Japan.  It would be a big piece of work.

My comment about Iwo Jima was aimed at BD.  From a geographic perspective, it's vaguely close to the Marianas, and with a bit of a stretch of the map, could probably be added.

[Aphrodite51503]

I don't need a map I just want to go back to the water that was in version 2.5.6

 

The ocean is much much much much better in that person than the other latest versions

[upyr1]

I'd love to see a mid-atlantic gap map. If there is some way for ED to automate the ocean floor so they can just load some GIS data then it could be used to test the DCS world map technology. If we get one, ED would really need to do some overhaul of their naval units.

Ideally, I would like some naval modules, as I have said before my top contenders for the first naval mods would be one focused on the Iowa-class battleships, or a carrier module. I don't know how long that will take but other wishes to go along would be the following.

For World War II 

• TBF and F4F module
• Escort carriers (RN and USN)
• Some destroyers and Friggets/ Destroyer escorts 
• Cruisers and battleships for both sides. I don't care when she was actually sunk- I want to sink the Bismark in my F4U. 

 

 For the cold war and Modern era- my list would be 

• Super Entendard
• US and Royal Navy Phantoms
• If practical a French Crusader
• Bucanier 
• AI J-15- I get it we won't ever have a J-15 module but if we can at least have an AI one I would be happy
• overhaul existing modules
• add Russian destroyers
• add the Chinese carriers
• destroyers and frigates (Spruance, kid, knox)
• Des moines class cruisers
• 1980s Iowa-class battleships
• French carrier battle group
• Galveston class cruisers
• The American nuclear cruisers
• Royal Navy CATOBAR carrier battlegroups 
• Soviet surface ships and submarines 

 

 

[Bremspropeller]

On 3/23/2021 at 12:58 PM, Fri13 said:

 

Just placing a sea floor to vary from 2000 meters to 200 meters would open up submarine warfare where submarines couldn't always stay at maximum depth but required to move through different thermal layers. As well open up the tactical positioning to various depths. Considering that submarines can go below 400 meters depth so there needs to be little space to get the different sonar returns as well.

 

It would still be easy to do, as the texturing would be just generic one under surface. The hard part is actually just importing the ocean floors depth maps and use that at acceptable level (IMHO a 500m resolution would be enough). 

 

In a 3700 x 3500 km area there is plenty of options to make any large scale strategic missions where different fleets moves and submarines can patrol etc. There would be space for the carrier connection flights as well. 

 

 

 

What happens when those are combined properly in scale?

 

There would be plenty of ASW places, at the norther side and somewhat at the west. 

That map would be kinda cool - especially since the Azores could act as ASW base. To fly those babies:

 

[shastasm]

Make it so #1.   Would be fantastic to reenact the Korean War and future war scenarios.   

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

This would be rad. Fictional 1980s air war over Hokkaido, let's gooooo.

Edited January 5 by MiG21bisFishbedL

[tigershark1-1]

I want a map that includes Okinawa Island to Taiwan.
It's not an exaggeration to say that the region is currently the most important military region in the world.
How happy I would be if I could fly there!　

[upyr1]

I think this would be awesome for the F6F and F4U. As for a later date due to China's sensitivities could we have a West Pacific map which includes more of mainland China