Post by Adseria on Mar 30, 2020 15:45:55 GMT -6
At the moment, the player's ability to control what aircraft type is used for automatic search is limited to selecting "floatplane search priority" in the Doctrine window. This simplifies gameplay, but it also means that if, for example, you want to replicate US WW2 search doctrine of using carrier-based dive bombers, your only option is to issue search orders manually, which takes a lot of time and effort.
My suggestion is to have the ability to set search priority manually in the Doctrine screen. Instead of the floatplane tickbox, there would instead be you could fill the big empty area in the bottom right, and replace the useless "auto ammo selection" box (or add a new tab) where you could manually set the order in which aircraft types will be selected for automatic searches. The way I see it, it could be pretty simple; a view similar to the ship list, but listing types of aircraft (floatplane, dive bomber, torpedo bomber, etc) and the ability to move them around. Then, in battle, the game would prefer to choose aircraft types at the top of the list, then work it's way down.
