Can air detection be improved?

[varis]

How about changing air detection? For many possibilities to improve gameplay, teamplay, etc etc! This would mean aircraft are detected earlier, but also enemy ships can be better scouted out by aircraft.

 

Benefits.

 

-Fighters now become more interesting, being the first phase of many maneuvers as air can block attacks etc

-Many ships have interesting new roles with their scout aircraft. Carriers could have a recon squad as an option too, would give more options eg. if you're going to a clan match with a 2 CV setup

-Torpedo bombers don't just appear and jump on lone BB. Instead they have precious long seconds to scream for AA, CAP and so on

-Carrier strikes become much more intense and add tension, as you see them coming further away and the whole team may focus on them more

-Destroyers cease to be a solo class and need support from the team, too

 

Fire at will 

 

[Userext]

How about changing air detection? For many possibilities to improve gameplay, teamplay, etc etc! This would mean aircraft are detected earlier, but also enemy ships can be better scouted out by aircraft.

 

Benefits.

 

-Fighters now become more interesting, being the first phase of many maneuvers as air can block attacks etc

-Many ships have interesting new roles with their scout aircraft. Carriers could have a recon squad as an option too, would give more options eg. if you're going to a clan match with a 2 CV setup

-Torpedo bombers don't just appear and jump on lone BB. Instead they have precious long seconds to scream for AA, CAP and so on

-Carrier strikes become much more intense and add tension, as you see them coming further away and the whole team may focus on them more

-Destroyers cease to be a solo class and need support from the team, too

 

Fire at will 

 

 

-fighters are interesting enough

-carriers can scout with fighters enough

-TBs gets spotted i think at 8km so no

-not going to happen team focus on what? everyone wil ltry to evade them

-oh good beat the dead horse even more

[ttchip]

-TBs gets spotted i think at 8km so no

 

They don't. You'll find that they get spotted between 6.5 and 5.5km away from you, depending on the carrier. This makes certain ships with good long range AA far less powerful than they deserve to be.

 

Increasing the distance at which planes get spotted was the first nerf I would've argued in favor of because it doesn't necessarily gimp a carrier's performance the way AA buffs/hitpoint nerfs would.

[Userext]

 

They don't. You'll find that they get spotted between 6.5 and 5.5km away from you, depending on the carrier. This makes certain ships with good long range AA far less powerful than they deserve to be.

 

Increasing the distance at which planes get spotted was the first nerf I would've argued in favor of because it doesn't necessarily gimp a carrier's performance the way AA buffs/hitpoint nerfs would.

 

Are you sure that your system(due to ping) acknowledges their position later? I watched lone BB vs CV fights a lot and planes would get sptoted 8km from the ship(no spotter plane)

[ttchip]

Are you sure that your system(due to ping) acknowledges their position later? I watched lone BB vs CV fights a lot and planes would get sptoted 8km from the ship(no spotter plane)

 

I've had enemy Taiho fighters move almost parallel to my DM between 5.2 and what I presume to be around 6km. Spotting distance in that case was 5.5km. It can't be lag or latencies. I haven't been able to produce that 8km spotting distance in a long time.

[Userext]

 

I've had enemy Taiho fighters move almost parallel to my DM between 5.2 and what I presume to be around 6km. Spotting distance in that case was 5.5km. It can't be lag or latencies. I haven't been able to produce that 8km spotting distance in a long time.

 

maybe diffrent ships have diffrent spotting range on their plane. 

[von_Boeg]

It IS absurd that ships can see other ships futher away then planes can, so longer spotting ranges for planes sounds good.

[AgarwaenME]

Longer distances could seem realistic, however DDs already struggle plenty due to spare fighters permaspotting them, effectively taking them out of a match for little cost. And the earlier a plane spots CAs, the less time they waste by approaching a defended BB. This is a buff that CVs doesn't really need.

 

The only usable option would be to have a scout squad with improved scouting, that replaces another plane squad, and I doubt any CV outside of possible full premade team play would pick such an option.