Employing a First Person Shooter / Ground troops mode would require a higher LOD/Clutter on the terrain engine that's already a Graphical Bottleneck.

The FPS thing is a nice daydream, but it will never be practical.

At this rate, though, DCS is going to need what Thirdwire has...era restrictions.

Yes we really do need this. Right now mission builders are performing this function themselves.

I wonder if we could put the Huey in missions to resupply FARPs and other smaller bases- to resupply the warehouses that may or may not run out in the world environment. Maybe they're not bringing crates of mavericks- maybe they are brining food to sustain the ground troops. You could have your airfield forces on a timer to explode or deactivate- and then counter that condition if the help group enters a certain zone. If the helo enters the zone, the (or A ) ground unit group activates and provides supplies to thirsty birds.
Just a thought- I'm absent of any other ideas right now.

Employing a First Person Shooter / Ground troops mode would require a higher LOD/Clutter on the terrain engine that's already a Graphical Bottleneck.

I made a suggestion in another discussion about this issue, and promptly got dumped on for it, but i'll throw it out here anyway.

What if instead of clients using varying LODs of the same map according to their role or proximity to the ground, a different map (or even a different engine) were loaded according to the client's role? I.E. there's one map for the aviation clients, and then for the ground level units, there's a set of smaller maps of higher LODs (essentially tiles of the larger map), and only the map being used by the client is loaded?

Picture any of the relatively low resolution towns you see in the black sea region in DCS being built as a small, higher resolution FPS style map, and the client being in one or the other, but the unit being represented in both. Would that not work?

For multiplayer missions, this could be managed by limiting ground units' AORs to single tile/map, and forcing them to load another map if they choose to cross into another tile. A fair tradeoff i think.

In the other discussion, someone said it's "impossible" to link multiplayer activity between two different maps, but as a wargaming analyst for the canadian military, i can tell you for a fact that's false, and it absolutely can be done, not only between differing maps in the same sim, but across different sims as well (realtime linking VBS2 games with JCATS for example: http://products.bisimulations.com/sites/default/files/file_uploads/IAV%20Conference%20FINAL.pdf).

In the end, what we're talking about is transmitting an X,Y,Z coordinate and directional orientation between systems. And if there's ever a conflict in weapons effects based on differing LODs (i.e. you shoot your .50 cals at a guy you saw in your flight map, but from his point of view, he was hidden behind a garbage can that wasn't in your version because of the lower LOD from your point of view), the server can just defer to the higher LOD version.

I love the Huey platform but like others can't really see where this fits in. I know this particular announcement is 3rd party but I still don't 'get' which direction ED are going in when you look at their previous releases.......I'm still not convinced they actually know which direction they're moving in themselves.

Sure they do but they could do it a little bit more controlled than slapping in somewhat "irrelevant" flying objects in a seemingly random order.
Blame the 3rd party all you want but ED and DCS will pay the reputation no matter what.

*COUGH COUGH* FSX *COUGH COUGH*