End of the world ?

[jef32]

Hi

I have no words to say how I find the Germany cold war map awesome. This map is highly detailled and not only on the airfieds, heliports airports or military base but everywhere.  But there's something essential missing from this profusion of detail: The life ! 
We can see campings with tents, caravans and legendary volkswagen Westphalia everywhere, we can see street of big towns empty of pedestrian life and it's as if a global pandemic has decimated humanity and it was the end of the world.
ED, would you think that it would be the time to add various civilian characters as statics or walking in the ME to give life in your simulator, especially for this map ? And civilians aeronautical characters like civilian liners pilots or flight attendands and moving boarding brides would be welcome too. Dont' forget that you're selling helicopters too and that all your customers do not love to fly around mach one and high altitude at all times. I love flying in F-16 or F-18 but I love flying at low speed and altitude too and on the Germany map, in this case, life on the ground is cruelly missing.
ED, remember what have done the succes of ORBX airports or airfields sceneries since years in Flight simulator. It's all these characters, humans or animals walking and giving life to these sceneries.

Edited Thursday at 02:27 PM by jef32

[tripod3]

Yes, with less detail it was ok without people. Because there were many other missing elements. But with such high detail without people it looks pandemic or unfinished.

This is a common problem for geeks, who all game devs are

Edited Thursday at 02:12 PM by tripod3

[draconus]

16 hours ago, tripod3 said:

This is a common problem for geeks, who all game devs are

It's not really a problem. There are multiple reasons why we have no civilians in DCS apart from the airshow crowd static. ED doesn't want DCS to be associated with videos of dying people, that's assuming they react to weapons or can be run over by a vehicle. If not - there would be stupid crowds of invulnerable people walking into fire and explosions breaking all immersion. And the obvious one - performance. There are some statics and AI infantry to choose from - place however many you want on the map - including the cows and enjoy the life.

I'd like myself to have some civilians esp. for transport, rescue and COIN missions or just to make a challenge in avoiding casualties around targets.