Originally posted by AKWarp
I have survived a total of three collisions in AH since I started playing it when it first came online.
A couple of "myths" that need dispelled:.
In all of your "myths" you fail to say which collision message was received, and therefore I doubt you were paying enough attention to understand what really happened.
Originally posted by AKWarp
The guy with the most lag wins the collision - not true at all. I don't have broadband internet. I have died in every collision except three, regardless of who hit who.
You immediately show in this statement that you completely misunderstand what happens in a collision. There is no "who hit who" that determines who takes damage. There is only "did I hit the object or not" that determines whether you take damage. It is 100%, completely, totally irrelevant whether he, too, collides or not. If he did not hit an object, he did not collide. If on your PC an object hits your aircraft, you have collided and you will take damage.
So, the only thing we can say with 100% certainty from this statement is you had three times where you saw a collision message and you did not die. We have NO IDEA which collision message you received in those three times or any other time, which would tell us whether you
really collided and received non-fatal damage, or instead received a message that he collided with you in which case you received no damage because you did not, in fact, collide.
Originally posted by AKWarp
If someone runs into you and you die, it means they shot you - total BS. I have been run into by a plane that never fired a shot and I died, he flew on.
3 possibilities. Either you received a "you have collided" message and thus you took damage and died, and he did NOT collide and therefore flew on. OR, you received a "you have collided" at the same time as you saw "bumpkin collided with you", but due to the manner of your collision you received fatal collision damage and he did not. OR, due to your lag you simply did not perceive him firing (or he had tracers off), and he collided with your debris as he flew past receiving non-fatal collision damage.
Originally posted by AKWarp
Even if not fatal, the other guy takes damage - again, BS. In the three collisions I survived, the other guy died and I had zero damage.
Again, probably because you saw "bumpkin collided with you" without receiving the message "you have collided", thus you did not "survive" a collision because NONE OCCURRED FOR YOU!
Originally posted by AKWarp
The folks that regularly survive collisions are probably laughing. The rest of us are sick of this damn collision model.
NO ONE "regularly survives collisions." They either collide and take damage or they do not collide and therefore don't take damage. There is no in between.
Apply a little brainpower and you will not be so sick of it. I realize that is much more difficult than whining about something you don't understand, but please try. Stay away from other aircraft and you will not collide. Very simple.