At CRS at the moment is the ‘Air Grid’ technology, which in easy to understand terms is basically an overlay that highlights roughly where the planes currently are and it should cover the entire map.
It got me thinking about how awful the EWS is for the ground war, the first thing you know about an attack is that EWS goes off and you’ve got a truck with an ATG bearing down on you.
It then peaked my interest as to whether Air Grid could be implemented at the ground level, where instead of having EWS icons on towns you get the overlay that you can flick on and off the theatre map that shows the build up of players in an area, of course deciding on the actual size would be the difficult one. Would it take away the possible ’surprise attack’ element?
EWS currently says ‘Hey here we come’, where as having the overlay on say the theatre screen could say, ‘Hey here’s a big group cluster of players’.
