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Hi all,

Being convinced that the greater part of the players who bought Naval War - Arctic Circle have already played Harpoon and/or Dangerous Waters, how about giving us the ability to use NATO style icons ?

As I write this post, i download the first patch and congratulate the development team for its reliability and responsiveness.

The game may have been released a little early, but to our delight.

Error is human, even if we tend to forget.

Go on
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Well, I was one of those asking for NTDS also but I actually sat down and thought about it last night. NTDS was a product of computer graphic and low resolution CRT of the 80's. There is really no reason that we cannot use a stylized symbol on the high-res flat panel available now by 2030. For one thing, it will be able to produce a much more accurate picture of the battlespace. Instead of a generic aircraft/ship icon, you will be able to get a sense of of the target size and type at a glance. While it may be fun to have an NTDS option (especially if they produce a Coldwar battleset). The lack of NTDS no longer bugs me like it did initially.
 
I think there could even be more information in the symbols, like for example the number of units in a group (something like the NATO unit size symbol above the type symbol) or maybe the loadout.
 
It has nothing to do with graphics.
Just a way to synthesize information to focus on the essential and be more responsive.

In addition, neither stylized icons nor NTDS are scaled.
NTDS symbols are still Used by NATO, yet their screens are nothing of the 80s. Men either.

I am not that old :)
 
frpandore said:
It has nothing to do with graphics.
Just a way to synthesize information to focus on the essential and be more responsive.

In addition, neither stylized icons nor NTDS are scaled.
NTDS symbols are still Used by NATO, yet their screens are nothing of the 80s. Men either.
I am not that old :)
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It have everything to do with graphics or the lack of graphic capability, also the the slow speed data link of those time as the information needs to be shared in a timely manner. It was a design constrained by technology at the time. Basically, it's a step up from grease pencil on a plastic board but nowhere as informative as it should/could be even by today's standard, much less 2030.

As to why it's still in use today. You know the military mentality and how hard it is to get any changes made, especially something being used on an international scale. I'm sure somewhere there is a committee looking into an a information system upgrade but by the time they arrive on a consensus. The real world would have moved onto holographic projection (I just saw a demo of a new 3D technology that does not require glasses and have a wide field of view last week. looks amazing and should hit consumer market in 2-3 year).
 
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