Disco'd in a 262

[Sketch]

Originally posted by Blooz
In the last 10 months you've 'discoed' 24 times.

I'm doubting your connection.

That's it!  Man, when I lived in Italy I would average about 20-30 a month in about 20-30 hours of flying.... Roughly every hour or so I would disco and it sucked!  And no, you won't get back your perkies.  Fly a F4U-1 or a Mossie and you will get those perks back fast.

EDIT:  Do disco's count as a death in the record books... because you haven't lost any 262's this tour that I was seeing...

[hubsonfire]

 Blooz

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Sketch
That's it!  Man, when I lived in Italy I would average about 20-30 a month in about 20-30 hours of flying.... Roughly every hour or so I would disco and it sucked!  And no, you won't get back your perkies.  Fly a F4U-1 or a Mossie and you will get those perks back fast.

EDIT:  Do disco's count as a death in the record books... because you haven't lost any 262's this tour that I was seeing...

For score & rank purposes, it coutns 1/2 death

On killstats, only when someone gets credit for killing you, it`s recorded as "death". If you auger or disco without any enemies nearby, there will be no entry.

[Zippy41]

Man, that sucks!!!:(

[Sketch]

Originally posted by Lusche
For score & rank purposes, it coutns 1/2 death

On killstats, only when someone gets credit for killing you, it`s recorded as "death". If you auger or disco without any enemies nearby, there will be no entry.

Thanks Lusche!
Does it still show up in the scores page though, as far as how many times you died in a specific plane?

[-CodyC]

i believe it also costs only half your perk points as well, my computer reboots an average of 20 times a tour and i've had it happen twice in a 262.  lost only half my perks that it cost, so that's as good as it gets.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Sketch
Thanks Lusche!
Does it still show up in the scores page though, as far as how many times you died in a specific plane?

You can only see how many times you were killed by an enemy (including proxy kills) in a specific plane. IF no one gets credit for your death, it's only recorded on scorepage, not killstats.

[SteveBailey]

Originally posted by halcyon
What a bad solution.

I don't doubt my connection at all. Never said that either. I'm running an 8MB cable connection through Comcast, and I do not disconnect from any other game I play.
I'll continue to fly perk planes, but this is ridiculous if these points can't be refunded.

Rediculous? Losing a handful of "points"  is rediculous?

[Roscoroo]

if your worried about loosing ur precious 262 perks ... dont fly em during primetime US ... it doesnt matter what type of connect you have .

[Krusty]

Perk plane rides, you have to expect to lose them the SECOND you spawn on the runway. If you survive, and land, that's just icing on the cake. Be it a spit14, a chog, a temp, a 262, or whatever, you pay for the use of the ride. Doesn't matter how you ride it, you pay in advance.

If you return it intact, there's a refund.

I don't think it's disconnecting you because you're in a perk plane. That would imply intent and intelligence behind it.

Oh, and just because *you* have a good high-speed ISP doesn't mean your ISP has a good strong path to HTCs servers. Run a tracert or a similar program to check for high latency or lost packets along the way.

IMO you can't predict them and you can't avoid them. Just have to log back in. If you lose the perks, well you'll have them back inside a week. Don't take off unless you expect to lose them instantly (that is, if you really really can't afford to lose those perks, fly a non-perk plane until you feel you can toss some points away "for the fun of it").

[FX1]

WOT back about 3 years ago had a 262 mission. We had 18 262's in the air. At around 15 minutes into the mission the server booted and reset.

[Krusty]

ouch!

[Simaril]

And, as in so many things, its set up like this because a few would abuse the situaion otherwise.

HTC has no way of telling whether you disco'd accidently, when the internet had a hiccup, or whether you were in a really bad situation and disco'd to avoid dying in a perk plane. Even if you're not that kind of person, we have to admit that there ARE dweeblings who would stoop that low, on a regular basis.

Because of said dweeblings, we all have to pay the price. Of course, because the price is measured in meaningless points in a game we play for fun, the price doesnt hurt that much.







(Although it ALWAYS hurts to lose 'em. I think I must hold some kind of record for the greatest vairety of ways to lose a 262. I've lsot 'em almost every way you can imagine -- which is why my perk point totals never seem to get that high!)

[Roscoroo]

Originally posted by Simaril


(Although it ALWAYS hurts to lose 'em. I think I must hold some kind of record for the greatest vairety of ways to lose a 262. I've lsot 'em almost every way you can imagine -- which is why my perk point totals never seem to get that high!)

Nah.... My LittleRoo still holds the record, He did in 2+ grand worth of 262's while I was at Work one day... "bad 5 yr old, no cookies for you."  

(He now has his own puter)

[Simaril]

Originally posted by Roscoroo
Nah.... My LittleRoo still holds the record, He did in 2+ grand worth of 262's while I was at Work one day... "bad 5 yr old, no cookies for you."  

(He now has his own puter)

Remember the guy who's kid cut school to use dad's account to kill his own account -- to score some "free" tigers? Dad got accused of lame behavior, and when the truth came out the kid got grounded till he was 47 or something....