air combat - just thinking about possibilities

[moriarty]

Hmm... If I'm not mistaken, it looks a lot like the combat system from Master of Orion II - well more detailed, because we have more ship systems, but also limited to several ships at most. Yeah, it could work.

I hadn't thought about it, but yes, it's kind of like that.

Or we can make a real-time arena, like in one of those old shooting games Or in X-Com: Apocalypse, if you think about it.

yeah, apoc... that's exactly the point, apoc had all craft (UFOs and XCOM craft) as hover-capable VTOLs, no chasing involved, just cruising through the city and lazily shooting at each other. I can see that kind of battle between a UFO and a Lightning, but not with an interceptor...

[Solarius Scorch]

I have nothing against the current dogfight mode, but I also think altitude should have some impact.
We could modify min/max speed per altitude, or maybe human crafts can't go very high so UFO's can outrun them by both speed and altitude.

Uh, that's a system that has nothing to do with the current model. I imagine it could be important in some other model, but we don't have it. Or at least not just one.

Anyway, it's all just details! What we need is something like THIS!