Hi Zuperman I was hoping maybe for the next update you could have a way to distinguish whether the the pilots are boys or girls maybe a button that changes your person instead of a boy maybe to a girl and maybe colors for your plane that you can customize if you could do this I'd be vary happy but if you do not have the time I'll understand but if you did manage to have the time like i said I'd be thrilled thx


Jenny

And even though im a guy I would like a solid hot pink Sopwith Camel. Then people would say, WhoISThisGuy?

sonic boom120 wrote: Hi Zuperman I was hoping maybe for the next update you could have a way to distinguish whether the the pilots are boys or girls maybe a button that changes your person instead of a boy maybe to a girl and maybe colors for your plane that you can customize if you could do this I'd be vary happy but if you do not have the time I'll understand but if you did manage to have the time like i said I'd be thrilled thx


Jenny

The only problem is is that some people, for example people my age (most people already know I male) so its not a problem for me. but some people wont even say their name. Its just privacy issues.

Yeah but its just I hate being mistaking for a guy

If I was female, I would simply add a "Miss" word before my nickname, if the nick was not enough to identify my gender (example: Luna, for my point of view, wouldnt have the need).

Miss 420, Miss Sonic, etc.

And being you a "Miss Fit", it would be more fun, huh?

(obvious pun, but no mockery intended)

But if you could customize your plane it would take all the fun out of reaching moraf. Then people wouldn't fear when they see the zebra plane because it could be anybody. No fun in reaching moraf if you already have the plane.

Dixieconfederate wrote: But if you could customize your plane it would take all the fun out of reaching moraf. Then people wouldn't fear when they see the zebra plane because it could be anybody. No fun in reaching moraf if you already have the plane.

No they would not fear the zebra plane. Not that anyone really dose anyway. If we could customize our airplanes by having an option to have certain design styles on our planes and the a ability to color the wings a certain color the nose the tail body of the plane wheel hubs. The well you could have your plane personalized to your own liking so people can fear your plane and not the plane 50 other people have.

Different colors for planes goes back almost as far as air combat in WW1. At least on the german side. Many of the german aces had their planes painted various colors as a signature of sorts. Not just the red baron, but his brother lothar and werner voss to name a couple. Would be cool here too.

What would definitely be good is if our name and and our own emblem and squad emblem as our country signature instead of the German sign ot British sign

Something a little like this




but a emblem as squad not name example mom has the mom heart falcons have a falcon etc.

You mean something like this.

Credit to Josh.

Skydavis1 wrote: You mean something like this.

Credit to Josh.

That is totally WICKED

Dixieconfederate wrote: But if you could customize your plane it would take all the fun out of reaching moraf. Then people wouldn't fear when they see the zebra plane because it could be anybody. No fun in reaching moraf if you already have the plane.

You can't even see it until you get close and by then I have already shot them DOwn!!

Skydavis1 wrote: You mean something like this.

Credit to Josh.

Yep like that

Logos on the planes would be cool too, but at our distances you really couldn't see it. The same held true in WW1, thats why the colors were used by many german aces. You rarely knew what squadron you were flying towards, but they could see colors pretty well and would know a lot by that. Richtofen for a time in command of his squadron had pilots with red, blue, yellow,black and combos.They also fought at much closer distances in general. Let the morafs retain the only zebra planes but let others customize theirs.

Well that makes no sense lol. In the ww1 the air combat was so close you you could count there nose hairs. It would also suck to reach MORAF and be stuck with a zebra plane like all the other 50 MORAF's while the guys that are lower ranks are doing all sorts of funky stuff with there planes. Yes the MORAF's should get the zebra thing but they should be able to customize it by coloring it or have the option to remove it and do something else lol.

Skydavis1 wrote: Well that makes no sense lol. In the ww1 the air combat was so close you you could count there nose hairs. It would also suck to reach MORAF and be stuck with a zebra plane like all the other 50 MORAF's while the guys that are lower ranks are doing all sorts of funky stuff with there planes. Yes the MORAF's should get the zebra thing but they should be able to customize it by coloring it or have the option to remove it and do something else lol.

sky has a point a great one actually I'd like the fact you you can change it up a bit with your planes it would be super cool all in favor of doing this type I

These are all great ideas, but there's a key data management hurdle here. As I understand it, Z has each player's device locally storing each kind of plane's details within the app software itself. The zebras were actual plane type additions, added when he sent out a new release.

To keep the multiplayer game playing fast (or at least, playing not any slower than it is today), there is a design rule that minimizes the amount of data that needs to be transmitted to each player's device by a server, and to the server from the player's device. Up to this point, this data is about flight position (and yes, plane type, but with so few plane types, that data can be fit in very small number of bytes, sent when the player entered). That's how we see each other in the right positions (and the plane type databyte tells each player's device's app which plane to represent for whom in that game). Computational declarations of kills or bomb deliveries are all done locally on each device, then sent to the server, and distributed to the other players' devices. At least that's what I assume, based on a little bit of what Zup's said, and a lot of assumptions on my part.

If we were to add "custom" planes, meaning each of us could come up with a custom design, even if it's just a logo under the cockpit, this data would have to be sent to the server every time we entered a game. Then the data would have to be sent to each of the other players as they enter a game with you. That's an enormous amount of data. Data transmission about plane positions would slow to a crawl. We would all be ~~~oo~~~!

Unless of course you don't care for anyone to see your customization except yourself. This would require no data to be sent, if everyone would see you simply as one of the "standard" dogfight plane types with none of your customization showing. We could show off our customizations on the forum. But would this be fun enough to warrant Zup having to add Painting and Pasting capability to the DF app?

Manfred