Range of aircraft in CivIII

[Shale]

Range of Aircraft-can they be drastically increased?

My biggest complaint with Civ3 is that the limmitted range of aircraft really ruin the whole modern combined arms approach to fighting wars in the modern age. I can understand that some early fighters were just short range defensive weapons, but within a decade we were building bombers that had 10,000 mile ranges.

It's impossible to use bombers as long range strategic weapons in this game, especially since it doesn't allow you to build airfields, or carry cruise missles ON THE BOMBERS.

IS THERE ANY way to increase the range of the aircraft? And I mean by a factor of like 3 or 4 in the case of the Stealth bomber.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, or else it's back to C2P2.

[steelehc]

I agree with you; aircraft should be able to have much longer ranges. As of now, there is no way to increase the ranges of aircraft beyond 8 spaces.

BTW: The first bomber with a 10,000 mile range was the B-36 Peacemaker, which was first flown in 1946, much more then a decade after the first fighter aircraft.

Steele

[planetfall]

Lately it seems like I am the only one asking for increased air range. I want a range of 10-12 for bombers. BUT note with 1.21 you can set range as unlimited. I have not tried it yet, but it should work.

Why didn't I, I don't want the AI's to blind side me with missions from the other side of the world. Get more people to keep on reminding firaxis of the need and eventually we'll get a patch that will fix this problem.

The other air craft item I would love to have is the ability to restrict building bombers and stealth to cities with airports. Why?
1. it makes sense, they can't land in city without a good airport and definitely not more than once in a wheat field.
2. strategic advantage possibility. Stealth mission to destory airport and no more jet interceptors, just regular fighters should equal shorter air wars.

[Sarxis]

I liked playing on very huge custom sized maps (250x250), so the bomber ranges make them near useless.

I really don't understand why there is a max range of 8 in the editor at all.

[Grrr]

That is a point. Restricting the stealth weapons to cities with airports would be of great help. I usually take a small town on the border of their Civ, and rush buy a couple of them.

[steelehc]

Planetfall: Grrr, Anunikoba, Shale, myself, and many others have all been asking for increased air ranges. Whats your point?

Steele

[Andrew Cory]

I'll just throw my US$.02 in for increesed ranges...

[Grrr]

I suppose anyone who plays on anything over tiny maps should want increased range.

[Andrew Cory]

I'll just throw my US$.02 in for increesed ranges...

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by planetfall
Lately it seems like I am the only one asking for increased air range. I want a range of 10-12 for bombers. BUT note with 1.21 you can set range as unlimited. I have not tried it yet, but it should work.

Why didn't I, I don't want the AI's to blind side me with missions from the other side of the world. Get more people to keep on reminding firaxis of the need and eventually we'll get a patch that will fix this problem.

The other air craft item I would love to have is the ability to restrict building bombers and stealth to cities with airports. Why?
1. it makes sense, they can't land in city without a good airport and definitely not more than once in a wheat field.
2. strategic advantage possibility. Stealth mission to destory airport and no more jet interceptors, just regular fighters should equal shorter air wars.

I did the infinate range for the stealth bomber, and it doesn't work for me. I can't go anywhere in it. I think it would be easy if Firaxis just increase the spinner value for the range. Say, instead of unsigned 0 to 8, have an unsigned 0 to 16 or 32. That would help people like me who play large maps.

[Grrr]

And myself. I don't use aircraft at all for this reason, and aircraft carriers aren't very fast either.

Also, why have aircraft carriers, and no airbases.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Grrr
And myself. I don't use aircraft at all for this reason, and aircraft carriers aren't very fast either.

Also, why have aircraft carriers, and no airbases.

I liked using aircraft carriers when the enemy has a "bay", and I send it up and start doing bombing runs far within their land.

I also changed ACs to be built when you learn Advanced flight, it was funny being able to build ACs before researching flight IMHO.

[Grrr]

CUSTOM AVATAR POST!!!

I agree with your humble opinion on building Aircraft Carriers before Aircraft.

[notyoueither]

Well... tap, tap, tap... Let's see it... Come on Grrr!!

[Dienstag]

NO NO NO! You guys have it _all_ wrong!

The max range of 8 makes _perfect_ sense. Because... because...

Geez. I can't think of a single reason. That's a bad sign, isn't it?