Author Topic: bomber perks (Read 630 times)

mussie · « **Reply #15 on:** June 06, 2005, 06:52:30 AM »

Yeah true on the RPM coming at you but as it is now if you drop a full formation that's three kills.

Imagine getting six kills in one flight.

Plus it would give people a reason to attack bombers as a group adding to the atmosphere.

It takes a lot more skill to drop 1 fighter than to drop 3 bombers and I would also like to see the scoring system changed to reflect this i.e. display what type of target someone kills Bomber, Fighter, Attack, GV and Ship.

SYSTEM Mussie landed 1 FTR 3 Bmr 0 Gv 0 Shp

Mind you an increase to the number of BUFF's in a formation also means a hell of a lot of ord being dropped.

6 lancs would be (14 x 6 = 84,000 lbs) of ord.

Perhaps they could make it
Small airfield ---> 1 in formation max
Medium airfield ---> 3 in formation max
Large airfield ---> 6 in formation max
Or
Small airfield ---> 14,000 lbs max load out (1 lanc)
Medium airfield ---> 42,000 lbs max load out (3 lanc's)
Large airfield ---> 84,000 lbs max load out (6 lanc's)

If they were to use the second option then they would have to allow you to set the number of eggs for the buffs (yet another change to the system) but this way you could take off with more buff's information but with a smaller bomb load each (bigger coverage on the drop)

They could also change the max ord based upon the current strat and supply situation for the country/zone.

This again will require time and effort: design, programming
bug hunting and deployment. they will also have to determine how it will affect the balance of play and weather the time / effort is worth the reward.

So I dont think these changes to the bombers will happen, but dam wouldn't it be cool.

~~Mussie~~

Tilt · « **Reply #16 on:** June 06, 2005, 07:22:16 AM »

Always liked the idea of perking attack or bomber load outs re the size of bomb type chosen.........

Bomb load made up of

500lb (250 kg) bombs = free

1000lb (500kg) bombs = 1 perks per plane

2000lb (1000kg) bombs = 2 perks per plane

4000lb (1800kg) bombs = 3 perks per plane

12000lb (Tallboy) = 20 perks per plane

22000lb (Grand slam) = 40 perks per plane

13000 tons (Little boy) = 3000 perks per plane.

20000 tons (Fat man) = 5000 perks per plane

You lose the perks when you lose the plane.

Can you imagine how easy it will be for the guy dropping the fission device to actually make it home in the MA? Particularly if fission devices also took out freindlies in the area concerned.

Never mind the 250 perks he had to invest in the B29

SkyTex · « **Reply #17 on:** June 09, 2005, 04:47:00 PM »

I agree we need something, i'm mainly a GV guy but i like flyin buffs as well. atm i've got more buff than gv perks cause i waste gv perks on tigers and why the hell would i fly the ar234? sure it's a jet but it carrys a smaller ord load, and relativly same speeds and costs perks. i'll stick to my Ki-67's. fast, decent ord (3 250kg per plane), and has nice defensive guns for it's size. hell you can't even aim the defensive guns for the 234. I'd like to see additonal bombers per formation at the cost of 15ish perks per plane (unless we quit loosing them due to the AI not being able to keep up with the pilot's turning). atm i'd prolly fly a 15 bomber formation to decimate an entire base/town just cause i think it'd be cool to see a row of 5 bombers 3 deep flatening a place.

Also the strats for the different zones should really have an impact. atm they are just there for perks, which you don't need for bombers anyways. if zone 4's radar factory is wiped out, it should take an awful lot of supplies/6-7 hours to rebuild the dar at a base in it's zone. same for taking out ammo. no ord if it's wiped out, or takes alot to replace it. You'd have to up the defensive capabilities of such instalations. i mean a couple of manned ack and 1 or 2 puffy ack would hardly suffice for defense in a real factory area.

Yes I like the b-29's. no we shouldn't have nukes. I think people like Skuzzy would get sick of my stupid questions and just start nuking every time i logged in

Then again, nuking the knits just to cause them mass pain would be fun.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 09, 2005, 04:54:14 PM »

It was a good idea to perk extra bombers in formation. But perking the bombs themselves is not a good idea. You'd have no way of building up perks in the first place.

While it is an excellent idea, it would be a ***** to code in for HT. It's worth it, but there are more pressing issues right now.