I have an idea if you have played C&C Red alert 3 you should know about the seawing if you dont know, look it up. I believe a unit like the seawing could possibly be implemented into pa or something similar. I want feedback on my idea and ideas for me and the community to give feedback on as well. (insert unce sam face here) I WANT YOU TO PUT YOUR IDEAS ON THIS FORM SO THE COMMUNITY CAN GIVE FEEDBACK
TA didn't have sea planes. It had aircraft with anti naval roles that that could also park in the water. The water landing was mostly useless because there's little need to park a plane. When it comes to literal underwater flying, XCOM:TFTD was one of the earliest games to use it in any meaningful way.
A seaplane is any aircraft capable of water landing, google it boy. I rather have them parked on/underwater than flying around aimlessly cause they got nothing better to do.
If you're going to make a post with a suggestion/idea, try to put more effort than "this thing from this game", and make no attempt to explain it aside from "go look it up".
Awesome. That means absolutely nothing in terms of gameplay. Any arbitrary aircraft could park on the water without changing a single thing about its role.
You really like to overthink it dont you? Its not about ROLE, its about having the damn things not flying around stupidly all over the place while you enemy is clearly aware of them if radar extends all the way to your base. You think anyone with a brain will say "oh my, those boats are fast at flying in circles!", in the event you enemy doesnt know what you're doing or the kind of units you have, you have some edge. It may not add a lot to gameplay but it helps keeping the base low profile. Maybe all planes can land on water in PA! but maybe they dont! that's simply a feature some of us would like to see cause hey, full underwater bases shouldn't mean just boats.
I haven't played TA in a long time, but I'm pretty sure that every aircraft in that and SupCom was a VTOL. For ease of parking, I'm going to assume that every aircraft in PA is too. I don't see why planes over the sea coudn't just hover really low over water, or even vertically land in water. Both would appear as naval units on radar, and their roles would not be changed.
Excellent idea! Now I can hover some interceptors among my tank force and kill enemy bombers that try to bomb the tanks. That sounds fun!
