Talk:Flight Sim Merger

just a few comments:

Names: Don't like either of the suggested ones, personally; I'm not much of a names person, but I like to start by thinking of abbreviations that might be good (CF? - hell, Crusader Fleet used to exist; WF? maybe too much like WWF)

Merits: Twin suns? All the rest of these are things you can be, but I'm not sure what being a twin suns means. Also, legend rebel? That just sounds tacky, and I think we're the NR, not the Rebel Alliance. Super ace? The word "super" should be avoided. I suggest more gradations in the early times, much like PBF. I'm not sure that "Rebel" is a cooler thing than "Knight", or that we should have rebel at all.

Other thoughts/Scoring: Himm likes message boards for reports; I recommend NOT yahoogroups, as it does not store pilot files anymore - it used to, which was really nice. Alternatives include Topica and Google Groups

Fleet structure: you have 18 squadrons here? I highly recommend a system with 9-10 people per squadron, so try to figure out how many people you have. I recall out of the depths of my mind that I wrote a script to figure this out once, and it looks like this page is it - 128 people means 12-13 squadrons, and I'll bet you that many of those people are actually gone, but the COs haven't been doing their duty. So I'd recommend 12 squadrons at the most. I know that this means disbanding more squadrons, but that may happen anyways.... When this last came up, I was in 4 squadrons, and they were all, except one, disbanded within the next year, so the decision became moot.

Storyline: Just wait till Vender comes back or something. Or get an AFer to do it. There are tons of possible storylines, I'm sure I could create a good one in an hour or so...

Overall: So there can be 4 squadrons who win in any given month? What if one squadron wins all 4 things? I don't know, I prefer a clear standings system like in Common ITOD, but maybe that's just me.

-Licah Fox 10:00, 15 Feb 2006 (EST)

For the merits we wanted to get away from the medeval listings, but I do see your point. we'll come up with something..

Well if this works out right, and we are able to get all 4 games to release missions every month, then it's possible a squad to could be on top for all 4 games, highly unlikely though.

The fleet roster was setup just to get a good idea of where everything will be. I understand alot of those squads will be disbanded, which is to be expected. However, it'll be up to the pilot to choose which squad he wants to be in. Only when they fail to choose in a timely manner will we choose for them.

Take youself for instance Licah, you are (were?) in all four flying fleets, it's possible you could be the top gun for each mission for the month, but you could also be the only pilot in your squad that flies a couple of games.

We're not taking away the competetion between squads so much, as we're focusing on storylines more than usual. Admittantly if the story progresses the way we want, it will hopefully encourage other pilots to try new games. Which in turn will bring back the squadron wars.

Having monthly mission to fly, no matter what game it's for, and having the choice to fly any or all of the missions is what counts right now. The game you want maynot be part of the "main storyline" for that month, but it will be part of the story. Like escort duty, or reconn, etc.

~ Joshua Hawkins

Names

"Alliance Battle Fleet" is better, though a bit too close to "Allegiance Battle Group".

Let's look at the current names:

• Patriot: nationalistic (clubalistic?); premise of being the RS' first and most successful fleet, and being the backbone of the RS
• Retribution: revengeful; premise of stealing Empire's ships and using against them
• Renegade: rebellious; premise of having a lot of cocky pilots that don't care about command?
• Intrepid: brave; premise of...playing a game with poor MP? I'm not sure.

The new flying fleet is a combination of various elements, so I like the "Alliance" theme; here are some other possibilities:

• Coalition Fleet
• Union Fleet
• Federated Flight Fleet (FFF!)

or things like:

• RS Strike Fleet

or from wing names:

• Valor Fleet
• Guardian Fleet
• Storm Fleet

just some possibilities....

-Licah Fox 14:52, 17 February 2006 (EST)

Looking specifically at the Academy Wing i can say as the RgF UG CO that there is need for only 1 squadron for the RgF as the number of cadets coming through doesn't warrant more. I'd be guessing that this would be the same for all the flying fleets. If cadets are managed properly i can't see them filling up anyway.

Phil

names..

Yeah, I can see that, especially with Tie, As long as Ace keeps cadets o nthe ball, XW will only need one squad as well. Still I'de like to have the space there "just in case"

I figure the squad names will be changed to reflect the game they are teaching, no need for them to have real squad names. The days of Grey-alpha flying with the cadets are over.

As for fleet names, I'm hesitant to suggest any types of "combination" or "Union" type names.. seems tacky to me, but, I'm game for whatever the majority votes for.

~Joshua Hawkins

Medals

I've added some examples of new gold medals for top gun in each of the 4 games. You'll find the page here. Gods I suck at graphic creations, but at least you get the idea of what I was trying to do. Maybe TJ will assist in creation if we ask nicely? Long as it's not a big gold medal with "XWA" or whatever the game is on it, that would just look stupid, In my opinion. I have silver and Bronze medals created as well, but I only posted the gold versions for now.

Just some thoughts..

Joshua Hawkins 06:22, 22 February 2006 (EST)