Hello, I've been building a while now and have learned a little bit about aircraft construction and what our favorite game could use in the future.

1. More land area. I think the mountains cause lag because of the complex features and contours. Land doesn't have to be terribly complicated, a few rises here and there, make the rest just flat land dominated by features like farm fields a lake here and there, etc.

2. A map; Even ultralight aircraft typically have GPS in them.

3. A 30k-ish altitude ceiling for clouds, a decrease in jet power at 70-80k-ish altitude as a result of the engine being starved of oxygen and an automatic shift in the appearance of the sky at around 100k feet to where the sky appears to darken and reveal the stars even while the sun is visible. If an aircraft achieves escape velocity and say 250k-ish altitude (This altitude is a pure guess) - well consider it game over unless of course they introduce rocket propulsion systems. lol

4. Rocket propulsion systems. We've played with it through modding using missiles. I'd like to be able to experiment with building rocket propelled aircraft and/or aircraft that can engage in combat both in and out of the atmosphere.

5. As touched upon below; Radar. Similar to the feature that allows you to switch to cameras have nose cones and/or fuselage cones have the ability to have radar installed. The longer the range and wider the angle of coverage the heavier the weight. Radar should be able to be toggled off when not in use for reasons explained below.

6. Radar detection.

7. A wider variety of disposable ordinance. Onboard radar guidance variety missiles, a type of missile that relies on the radar on the aircraft to seek its target and a radar seeking (HARM) missile. I -think- our Interceptors are heat seeking missiles and I believe the Guardian is a simplistic missile that -basically- relies on the non-existent radar of the aircraft. To simplify matters the design could simply be called "multi-function/capability missile." This would allow the player to determine what detection capability it has and its effective range. Each change would change the shape, weight and size of the missile while the explosive charge would remain the same.

8. Chaff and Flare dispensers which can be set to manually be launched OR a few seconds after a lock has been achieved. If evasive action is not taken after the deployment of countermeasures though the explosion could still destroy the aircraft.

9. Include separate throttle controls for multiple engine aircraft. This can allow aircraft to reduce fuel consumption AND compensate for damages, mentioned below.

10. Self-Sealing Fuel Tanks & Armor: Fuselage sections and wings should have the option of adding self-sealing fuel tanks for the fuel that they carry to protect themselves against current guns (See Below,) at the expense of a 25% weight increase in the fuel carried in that part. However armor is also imperative for certain areas of aircraft this can include Light Armor for a 25% weight increase for the part in question and Hard Armor for a 50% weight increase for the part in question.

11. A greater variety of guns. Our gatlings and wing guns are lovely but the base model is too powerful. Perhaps I am assuming too much but I think these were intended to be light caliber weapons which would certainly pass through most aircraft like water through a sieve - but as history has shown us aircraft can return from a flight with hundreds of bullet holes and not just blow apart from a single impact. I feel there are TWO (three if you add self sealing fuel tanks) that should be vulnerable. An engine strike should reduce power on a direct impact by 25% per strike, fuel tanks should explode with the force of a Boom-25 and if you do add the option of self-sealing fuel tanks for wings and fuselage sections then those that do not have self-sealing fuel tanks should also explode. Everything else should be invulnerable as it basically passes through the aircraft.

After that expand to cannons though....

The next tier up should be the 20-29 mm range and have some recoil that rocks the aircraft around a bit, especially if off-centered and have a small exploding effect when it hits. These rounds will cause even self sealing fuel tanks to explode and destroy any part directly impacted - unless Light Armor is employed on those parts. Note that engines unprotected by surrounding structures will see their power reduced by 75% on an impact. They can have the same basic appearance as our existing wing guns and Gatlings but size difference should be obvious - or you can go with a new appearance altogether.

Up to the next tier, this weapon would be the 30-39 mm range, has a slightly larger exploding effect and will chew through just about any part that does not employ Hard Armor. Appearance wise once again size is an important factor. It will no longer fit into a wing and must either be pod mounted or fuselage mounted.

I understand that a ship building update is underway and while I don't know what features this will bring, cannon wise, the final tier for aircraft mounted weapons should be the 40-125 mm range. These are essentially anti-tank weapons and should be able to destroy any one part protected by Hard Armor and positively blow apart any aircraft with Light Armor or less with the force of a Boom-25. The rate of fire on these weapons should be far reduced from the previous types and be much much larger.

1. Ammunition Capacity. Wings and Fuselage Blocks should only be able to contain a finate amount of material. Thus one cannot load a wing with maximum capacity of ammunition AND fuel. The higher the tier of the weapon the less of the ammunition the given area can hold. Optionally Ammunition Boxes, similar to Fuel Blocks, could be added with a fixed amount of ammunition somewhere in the aircraft, for the specified tier of weapon. Weight should be approprate.

2. Introduce a new engine, on par with our current top of the line, with 2D or 3D Vectored thrust. (2D being Pitch, 3D being Roll & Pitch.) This can even be an attachment if necessary, perhaps one for each engine variety?

3. Increase the customization for propeller engines including a variety of different spinners, the option of having no spinner and include a new propeller blade variety to reflect the curves of a World War I to World War II wooden propeller. Finally, provide the option of having a spinner mounted gun up to the third tier I described above. (The P-39 optionally had a 20 mm or 37 mm cannon in it's spinner, otherwise I wouldn't have even opted for the third tier.)

4. This has been mentioned over and over but we really need to be able to see the types of wings we are using thus it is imperative that we see some development showing the different wing cross sections.

5. Not quite so important as that, it would be interesting if we saw wing form options, such as fabric covered effects, maybe with wing warping ailerons/elevators.

6. I don't believe any aircraft to date has been built specifically for ease of later painting them thus I propose some new paint scheme options. Firstly, how about a panneled bare metal effect, then some optional camo schemes with up to five customized colors in a Splinter, "Woodland" Conventional, Splotched or a simple over and under scheme. Each scheme would base it's underside color upon where the main wing/structural wing and horizontal stabilizer/structural wings attach. Perhaps a separate option to paint a colored stripe on the fuselage, the rudder, wing or for the entire spinner would suffice for customization. More importantly though, in building a model of the Eindecker I found that the added weight of the insignia really messed up her performance envelope. I'm not going to ask for you to have 101 different insignia for our wings or fuselage blocks but how about a four colored roundel, namely crimson, red, white and blue from the center outwards (With the option to reverse the color order) with the added option to put the SimplePlanes logo on our Vertical Stabilizers, each reflecting that we are all players of SimplePlanes? Those who produce models can continue to make their own insignias~

7. A simple hinge device that is not so large and bulky as having to use two rotators to accomplish the task. This could be handy in creating all sorts of new creations! A bar like the VTOL bar could be placed at the opposite side of the screen for both to be used at the same time. (Naturally, I'm envisioning a turret.)

8. The fuselage blocks are able to be reduced and extended in 0.25 increments length wise but this is not so of either end - could this possibly be rectified without modding? I also request that the minimum width be reduced from 0.5 to 0.25. If it works fine for modders to make thinner objects surely the game engine can handle such a feat?

9. I have observed that with modding rounded diamond cross sections are possible to create replicas of stealth fighters. Can we potentially see a fuselage block and fuselage cone in the future with these shapes?

10. Stealth technology: Can we possibly see stealth/invisibility from radar as an option for our creations with certain criteria placed upon our designs that will prevent us from deviating from the shape once we select a "Stealth Canopy"?

11. Hostile territory & destroyable structures. I propose that with the addition of new islands or landmasses that at least one area be made hostile towards players with Anti-Aircraft Guns and SAMs near military sites and enemy fighters making an appearance any time you carelessly enter visual range of their territory above approximately 1.5k-ish feet and being detected on Radar - provide time because the fighters will have to scramble. If you're really good, you might catch a bomber and a handful of fighters on the ground - but be prepared to face anti-aircraft fire and SAMs. ;-) I also propose that the enemy occasional conducts bombing raids, similar to our "Defend the Bomber" mission, on our airstrips, bridges and bases. (Again with destroyable objects.) I propose their insignia to be either an "X" as in "Enemy-X" or a Skull with or without the crossbones. Finally I request that enemy ships be placed in the waters offshore of their territory that CAN be destroyed.

Well that about wraps up my ideas and suggestions for SimplePlanes at this time. If you like any of these ideas, show the developers by upvoting!