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Author Topic: Show individual fighter wing replacement times on carrier interface.  (Read 890 times)

Wapno

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When your carrier is rebuilding destroyed fighters, it would be nice to see how much time remains until the wing gets rebuilt. A progress bar of some sort under the already existing fighter icon, or a ticking ETA display over the icon.

And yes, I know there are some problems with this, but I think they are not roadblocks. Yes, time till replacement varies based on current replacement rate, so the countdown could be slowed down respectively. Also, there are multiple fighters in each wing, so displaying remaining time for replacement of every single fighter could cram the HUD a bit (especially with those 5-6 fighter squadrons), so it could instead display an estimated replacement time only for the last fighter to be rebuilt.

This would be a nice feature, because currently you got no idea how long are you going to be disarmed when your fighters get blown up. An indicator would help adjust to the situation and would be a little less frustrating than staring just at dimmed fighter icons and a replacement rate ticking down, having no idea how long is it gonna take unless you count it in your head (good luck with that).
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