Vehicle National Identifiers

[NoVegas 36]

This is a minor detail that bothers me as it created some confusion for me and a friend about what vehicles belong to what nation.  For the Challange "Australian Aviator" we got into a rather lengthy talk about how we could not easily identify in game what sub-trees existed as the debate became rather entrenched in how vehicles are classified.  I had too do some research to find out that the Boomerang Mk1 and Mk2 are Australian designed aircraft. Whats odd about is that the Boomerang names have the little British symbol next to them indicating they are the British Boomerang but there isnt any other nation using the Boomerang to confuse it with.  This is further agitated by the fact that in the Garage it shows a British flag, leaving no readily available indication that its an Australian Aircraft.  The debate got a bit off topic from there as we began to debate Czechoslovakian Tanks in the German line and so forth...

 

I propose we leave the little symbols in the name to indicate what nation that vehicle belongs to but change it so the Flag show the Nation of original Manufacture design. This will help readily identify what vehicle goes to what nation.

[leroyonly 4,310]

Open for discussion. 

[Kan0nenfutter 789]

Not only that, the fact that italian, french, australian and british vehicles use the same rondel can be very confussing (the symbol right next to the vehicles name).

 

I'd like to suggest giving each nation its own, distinguishable sign.

 

USA, UK, USSR, Germany and Japan still get the signs we are all already used to. Israel keeps the star of David, as there isn't any conflict with another nation.

Australian planes get a kangoroo ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Australian_Air_Force#/media/File:Roundel_of_Australia_-_Low_Visibility.svg ) - without the circle to make a large enough kangoroo

France gets the Cross of Lorraine that stood for the free french forces ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forces_françaises_libres#/media/File:Free_French_Air_Forces_Logo1.png ) - only cross without circle

Italy gets the "fascio" symbol ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_der_italienischen_Luftstreitkräfte#/media/File:Italy-Royal-Airforce.svg ) - propably not three but only one

Romania gets their version of a cross ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanian_aircraft_marking_WW2.svg )

 

Yes, it may be the false symbol for some planes (italian jets never had the "fascio" symbol) ... but Leopards also didn't drive with the Nazi flag thats used for the entire german tree, so a few inaccuracies should be okay for the sake of easier identification. While the original proposal is nice, you'd still have to search the entire tree to identify australian planes in the british tree. With my proposal, you could see them easily not only in the tree, but while flying AB/RB. No need to memorize them.

Edited August 31, 2018 by Kan0nenfutter

[NoVegas 36]

On 30/08/2018 at 16:37, Kan0nenfutter said:

Not only that, the fact that italian, french, australian and british vehicles use the same rondel can be very confussing (the symbol right next to the vehicles name).

 

I'd like to suggest giving each nation its own, distinguishable sign.

 

USA, UK, USSR, Germany and Japan still get the signs we are all already used to. Israel keeps the star of David, as there isn't any conflict with another nation.

Australian planes get a kangoroo ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Australian_Air_Force#/media/File:Roundel_of_Australia_-_Low_Visibility.svg ) - without the circle to make a large enough kangoroo

France gets the Cross of Lorraine that stood for the free french forces ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forces_françaises_libres#/media/File:Free_French_Air_Forces_Logo1.png ) - only cross without circle

Italy gets the "fascio" symbol ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_der_italienischen_Luftstreitkräfte#/media/File:Italy-Royal-Airforce.svg ) - propably not three but only one

Romania gets their version of a cross ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanian_aircraft_marking_WW2.svg )

 

Yes, it may be the false symbol for some planes (italian jets never had the "fascio" symbol) ... but Leopards also didn't drive with the Nazi flag thats used for the entire german tree, so a few inaccuracies should be okay for the sake of easier identification. While the original proposal is nice, you'd still have to search the entire tree to identify australian planes in the british tree. With my proposal, you could see them easily not only in the tree, but while flying AB/RB. No need to memorize them.

Good point and i agree with all points you made, However this raises a question on how do we want to handle Czechoslovakian Tanks?  do we give them a Czech roundel or leave them as German?  The flag beside them i definitely think should be changed to Czechoslovakian to reflect its model of national origin.  How ever i have mixed feelings about giving it a roundel for Czechoslovakia or just leaving them with german roundels.

[leroyonly 4,310]

As the flags that show the original operator have been previously implemented,

 

Moved to Implemented Suggestions.