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Originally posted by *Buzzsaw*:
Salute

We should see humans manning all the Machineguns and Artillery pieces in the game as well as in the drivers seat of all vehicles.

There should also be groups of soldiers in standing or crouching positions which reaction to be strafed or bombed by dying.
I wonder if this would be possible with one AI entity/task/thread (call it what you want) would be in charge of a large unit of 'troops'? Could it cause them all to move or fire at once? Could it do specific actions with one individual at a time (including the dying of just so many from strafe or bomb or action by other ground units) but fast enough to be credible? Because you know that there cannot be scads of AI entities and a framerate to speak of or maybe the sim to load at all!

Offline it could be less load if only the units in sight just below actually move in detail. Online maybe too as each persons PC would work the ones below his plane *in detail*. In that way, a very limited amount of AI's could 'cover' the entire battlefield by switching from ground unit to ground unit.