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Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Military helipads are lackluster and should be gone/reworked. #75363

Open raincandy7 opened 2 months ago

raincandy7 commented 2 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Military helipads resemble one emptied out hangar adjacent to a structure resembling a motel and have no "military" loot in them save for JP8 and whatever you pick off of zombie soldiers. This place resembles more of a civilian, private helipad and no analogue of it exists in military practice. Military crafts do not land on places like this to refuel.

Solution you would like.

A complete Air Force Base area to replace this structure. Full with hangars, runways, helipads, fuel storage, warehouse, barracks, armory, command building, etc.

Describe alternatives you have considered.

Scrapping this building and simply redirecting 'Helicopter Crash' mission to a real military base.

Additional context

Many pictures exist of air force bases but none of a "military helipad" from DDA, therefore I can't make the comparison.

NerosShadow commented 2 months ago

Regional hospitals tend to have helipads, as do some larger city police stations. Rural airports are a thing and have helipads. In the NE region, there are 3 Major U.S installations which fly military aircraft. Vermont Air National Guard Base, Pease ANGB in New Hampshire, and Westover Air Reserve Base in Massachusetts. With several smaller airwings at civilian airports. Of those, Westover is the ONLY one that operates independently of a civilian airport. IE is a fully functional military base. Adding military sections to civilian airports seems like the realistic approach, aside from adding Westover as its own special location with its size of 4 sq miles. I would love to provide a map however I believe that is now CUI and while I could give generalized info we will have to take artistic liberty on specific locations.