Author Topic: Bailing out (Read 1337 times)

dedalos · « **Reply #15 on:** February 22, 2006, 02:52:18 PM »

OK but why? Why ask the question? You still get the kill so how does it really effect you? His score wont be effecetd as match?

JAWS2003 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 22, 2006, 02:58:58 PM »

It would afect the score of bailing pilot , since is not the same having 20 bailouts and no deats (even if he bails at altitudes that no pilot could survive a bailout), or 10 bailouts and 10 deaths.

JAWS2003 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 22, 2006, 03:05:11 PM »

There is already a timer for the chute to open. If you hit the ground during that time you die. As MA is now, you don't die if you just click tower.

SuperDud · « **Reply #18 on:** February 22, 2006, 03:53:51 PM »

I bail when my tail has been shot off and I'm fluttering. It's quicker to bail and either free fall or hit .ef and get back into tower than to flutter down for 2-3 mins.

Brooke · « **Reply #19 on:** February 22, 2006, 03:55:58 PM »

I bail out if my plane is crippled and going down. I also try to make it back to base and to land after I'm out of ammo or if I've just enough fuel to make it back. The reason isn't score (which isn't large for anyone like me, anyway, who doesn't fly that often), but to work in a small extra amount of realism. For this reason, I'd like it if the bailing process were more realistic (harder, such as requriring the opening of canopy and unbuckling; and lower probability of it being survivable, such as reducing probability of living through it the faster you are going). However, I agree that this sort of request would add to the game only for a small minority of players and that there are many higher-priority features that should take precedence.

hubsonfire · « **Reply #20 on:** February 22, 2006, 04:49:35 PM »

The only real benefit, if you can call it that, to a complicated bail-out routine that requires you to float to the ground, is more lil meatbombs for the rest of us to shoot, causing even those who bailed out to die senseless, violent deaths, utterly defeating the purpose of bailing out in the first place.

pluck · « **Reply #21 on:** February 22, 2006, 04:58:22 PM »

i get angry when someone tries to steal my chute kill:furious

Saintaw · « **Reply #22 on:** February 22, 2006, 11:47:38 PM »

I'm all for something that improves the rate of pple bailing... I mean COME ON... I only got to shoot at 2 chutes this month! No one ever bails any more... please think of the others!

*pouts*

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #23 on:** February 22, 2006, 11:56:25 PM »

Times i bail out:

1)when falling from above 10k (saves time bailing and .ef)

2)when tail get shot off and fluttering down slowly. (once again, to save time not score.)

3) when im irectly over an enemy base/our own maproom for the sake of some .45 fun.

and most importantly;

4) In a furball when someone has shot off a wing or tail and I'm sitting there floating down slowly between enemy planes.

I refuse to let some tard STEAL THE KILL from the one who shot me down.

bail out, give the rightfull killer the kill, tower faster, back to the action faster.

Saintaw · « **Reply #24 on:** February 22, 2006, 11:58:42 PM »

Batfink... I command you to stare at my avatard for 5 minutes...

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #25 on:** February 23, 2006, 12:02:11 AM »

tripping out here and thats only been 4 mins.

now stare at mine for 10 mins!

Scrap · « **Reply #26 on:** February 23, 2006, 12:08:47 AM »

A novel idea... might slow the AirQuake mentality a bit.....

2bighorn · « **Reply #27 on:** February 23, 2006, 01:07:36 AM »

Really simple fix. 100 perkies award for killing a chute.

I'm sure bailing would become less atractive

BigR · « **Reply #28 on:** February 23, 2006, 01:17:33 AM »

I usually bail after divebombing my b17s so i can reup real quick and dive bomb some more.

Zaphod · « **Reply #29 on:** February 23, 2006, 01:29:45 AM »

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Originally posted by SuperDud
I bail when my tail has been shot off and I'm fluttering. It's quicker to bail and either free fall or hit .ef and get back into tower than to flutter down for 2-3 mins.

exactly....I HATE being stuck nose high, no tail and just kiting down from 10k. Hit bail, .ef, back in the tower in no time standing in line for the next plane I can get shot out from under me (those guys in charge of giving out new planes are sooooooooooo gullible).

Zap