First I should point out that patch 1.008 is a big step and is a big improvement. The fixed sniper AI makes so much difference now, and the excellent new terrain is a big surprise. The Camel and Dr.1 are excellent planes and are fun to fly with the extra danger introduced with the twitchiness.

Now for my suggestion. When Rise of Flight was first released the number of aircraft included necessitated that the enemies in Russian Roulette consisted of planes from both sides. Now that things have moved on and there is a decent variety of aircraft available for both sides I would love to see Neoqb change the format of the Russian Roulette mission.

1. The opponents are chosen from all available enemy aircraft. So if you fly Entente you get German aircraft as enemies and vice-versa.

2. The order is randomised so that you have no way of knowing what you will be faced with next.

I know this sounds like I am suggesting a quick mission builder but it clearly isn't that versatile. I hope I am not wrong in saying these changes would easy to implement. After all some of the Russian Roulette missions do include a bigger variety of enemies (the Pfalz D.III RR has you fighting SE5As for example).

This would have the benefit of making the Russian Roulette mission much more believable rather than facing friendly aircraft. It would also be a great advertisement for the new addon aircraft. It would give those who haven't bought these addon aircraft a chance to see them in action, and would therefore encourage them to go buy them.

Just a thought

Agreed...a very good suggestion, particularly no. 1 ...

I agree, randomised and a choice of fighting only enemy aircraft would be great to jazz up RR.

TBH I'd like it to keep both friendly and enemy in... it's good to practice defensive techniques against all types of attack, whatever the plane - you do get Central pilots who use Boom n Zoom-style energy fighting on you, and you get Entente pilots who prefer to dogfight, too.

He's suggesting the choice of mixed and just enemy.

I like the ideal 2005AD, I spend alot of time on RL and since I fly mostly Entente I would really like to pratice known Entente scout tactics against Central powers scout AC. It's really frustrating because usually by the time a Central powers scout AC finally shows up in RL I'm pretty shot up and in no condition to take on a fresh Central AC and try these tactics out. But maybe to make everyone happy a tick box that allows you to fly against all in game aircraft or just against the other side?

The RR in the fly now area is exactly like that. Only enemy aircraft are randomly spawned. Just fly to the large city.

I had a file that was a hacked into Russian Roulette msn file so I made one for each plane.
Here are two samples. AlbDv vs Allied only and SE5 vs Axis only.
You can open these in ROF editor and change the planes, weather, time of day and save the file as your new name. Not that hard.

Samples download: http://www.mediafire.com/?kw23gdmyq0m

Open zip and place the Russian Roulette Axis vs Allied folder in your ROF mission folder and in game under missions you'll see 'Russian Roulette Axis vs Allied!'

Why not give the player a choice of "all planes" or "enemy planes" only? They should never take away existing features....just give the player a choice imo.

Great suggestions though.
I would also like to see:

1) "take off from field" option
2) random/selective field/location option
3) random/selective weather option
4) random/selective enemy type option (ground vs air)

It was kind of weird flying the DR.1 and Camel in RR, they only face off against the usual N28, Brequet, Alb, DFWC, D7 pattern, I was hoping I`d get to shoot down Camel, Dolphin, or.. generally just ALL the other planes as well.