Players never raise plane landing gear?

[lukethebestpug (pugen)]

hi, i love planes and stuff so i make planes for games and yea.

problem is when i make planes, i make landing gear that retracts and trust me, it is the most painful thing EVER. it makes me feel extremely annoyed and useless when people dont raise landing gear when they take off. i don’t want to make it automatic but is there some way other than a warning to make people do it instinctively? instead of me telling them to do it?

thanks,
-luke

[Jacko_Korbius]

Unfortunately without a reminder or some kind of enforcement players will most likely continue not doing it. So I recommend adding some kind of notification after a certain amount of time following take off. By alerting the user to bring up the landing gear, they’re more likely to do it. Don’t allow players to exit out of this notification until they’ve done the required task. You could also add a beeping/warning noise that plays as well. A more advanced idea would be to give less of a reward if they don’t fly “correctly” (putting the landing gear down, etc.), obviously this would require a reward system of some kid.

Even if you implemented multiple strategies to prevent people from keeping the gear down, someone is still going to do it. Unless it is fully automated, there’s no way to force someone to play your game a certain way (in this circumstance). It is an unfortunate reality you have to face. The only thing you can do is to make it more of a hassle to do it the wrong way than the right.

[arxweb (arxy)]

You can make the planes a bit faster while the gear is raised. This also has a bit of realism to it (aerodynamics)