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mid-air collisions

Jerm

Jerm

Charter Member
is there any way to space out the aircraft in formations a little more. i mean i get a lot of mid-air collisions when dive bombers make their approach to their targets.
 
I think the Mission file would need to be edited in a text editor (i.e. Notepad). This was posted by Bearcat a while back, remove txt extension, Word document:
 
Another thing I've found is the number of planes and formation you use effects mid air crashes.I usually use a 4 plane formation and echelon left for divebombers.


Talon
 
One Mo' Thang...

... Don't forget to use one of the mk_mdlc versions to reduce each plane's "Collision Bubble".

I have my smaller fighters set to 4 or 5, medium bombers and transports to 7 or 8, and large bombers to 11 or 12.

This will allow you to "get in close" without encroaching on the other planes' Personal Space.... Mo' Realistic.

SC
:kilroy:
 
In addition to ridiculously large collision bubbles, formation type and AI skill levels also play a big part in these mishaps. If the AI are set to high aggression with low skill, they'll routinely collide during engagements. High aggression with intermediate or ace skill its preferable. Also, Echelon and Line-Abreast formations are safer.
 
As much as I like this Sim it does have shortcommings like all Sims that you will have to work around them. Inspite of this its still a great Sim in my opinion!:wavey:
 
Hi Jerm,
There is a slightly easier way to affect the collision bubble for all aircraft without changing each aircraft. This works for me! :d

Go into your main CFS2 folder and there near the middle you will find your cfs2.CFG (Back up a copy of this to a safe place).
Open the cfg file in notepad and go to the 'edit' drop-down and click on 'find'. Enter 'collision' and search for it. There is only one entry. You will it is set to 2 secs, change this to -1 (minus one), save and exit.

What this does is give you longer and therefore a more realistic time span to get really close within the collision bubbles before exploding. I found this a good balance and if you want more just increase to a larger minus number.

Cheers Shessi
 
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