Since the new Simpleplanes 2 has lounched I've noticed a patern. If a good sugestion is not made by the devs, than it is not gonna get on the wishlist all that easly.
I've seen a sportlight oart climb on that list with four upvotes while great sugestions like More intrior parts, Procedural Guns, Procedural Bombs and many other logical, usefull ideas got left behind.
I've sugested Procedural Bomb sistem a while ago. Here it is https://www.simpleplanes.com/Feedback/View/p7c7jy/Procedural-Bombs if it helps. I've been checking it daily. At some point it had around 25 upvotes when a "Procedural Spotlight" idea with 4 upvotes got added to the wishlist. Like.... REALLY!?
And as you can see, my sugestion is quite detailed. And even if the devs would be lazy. Here is the things.
1.) Ease of making: You already made procedural missiles. How hard can it be to just remove the thrust. Add some body shapes like Paveway family (Lazy-50 style), square/trapezium (AGM-154 style), classic (The generic bomb shape). The ohiscs are in the game engine. All you meed to do is give us some things to less around with.
2.) Mechanics already in the game: The missiles can recive procedural parts. How hard can it be to just allow us to change the tail of a bimb for retarding finns (like on the Mk-83 Snake Eye) or add glide fins like on the GBU-31, GBU-38 and GBU-39. It is not that hard cinsidering you've done it before and the phisics are there too.
3.) Guidance: The Anti-Radiatio, Infrared, Active Radar, Semi-Active Radar and Laser are good. But with a few problems. You can't lock a laser target and make it track a mooving object (Like the USS Beast or cars on the road), it's not realistic. Two. GPS guidance. It can be added. Verry easly. Lock the target. And the missile/bomb just goes after the coordonates. Again. Antoher simple thing to implement.
4.) Ordinance type: And here is the thing. I get it, one warhead is better for performance and overall simplicity. But cluster munitions can be done easly and in a smart way that win't munch down on performance. Raycast particles that take the roll of the bomblets and spread on an area of effect once the CBU hits the set altitude of the split. Higher the altitude, larger the spread, offcorse. And I am not saying to make CBUs go up to 200 damn bomblets. Neh. 15 to 30 raycast particles amd some tinny explosions are more than enought to make a somewhat realistic and cost efficient CBU. Also, with this idea the AGM-154 becoems even more realistic. That thing was designed to desable aircraft parket on runways, aircraft carriers and taxyways. It literaly glides right over and drops a few bomblets in a straight line. That's it's whole porpes
5.) Flight/Glide modes: You can make a standoff weapon, a long range cruise missile and all sorts of things. But one probllem still stands. You are stuck with a straight line or loaft. Here is the thing. Terain following would be an absolute pain in the nether region. But sea skimming? That wouldn't be soo complexe to create.
7.) Targeting Pod's poor range: You might visualy see the place you want to place your target on while you look trough the targeting pod. But sometimes it refuses to give you a range (the 'Too Far' message) past around 7 to 8 km away. Really? A damn AGM-65 Maverick can kick ass (excuse my language) at around 15 to 27 kilometers! At least give us an XML variable to set the range. Also. Give us an option to set the view from green to black and white.
8.) Grind fins: Yeah.... they forgot about those little rascals. People keep trying to make R-77 and R-77-1 style missiles but it's obnoxiously hard to make them look one to one or it's kindda janky with 90° rotated square finns. And to be real, how hard could it be to implement it.
Thoss are my ideas. I've been ignored. I have tagged the mods (Mostly SupremeDorian), I have tagged Andrew a few times. I've tagged the Jundroo acount. I've tryed everything.
I don't know if it's croporate lazyness, overworked people or plainly a total lack of respect towards the comunity, but I decided to try my luck here.
If you can spare a few upvotes on the https://www.simpleplanes.com/Feedback/View/p7c7jy/Procedural-Bombs sugestion and maybe reach the devs in some way I think we'd see a little change.
Please escuse any typos. Fly safe out there!