Author Topic: Ditchin in town on concrete? (Read 959 times)

AAolds · « **on:** April 28, 2007, 09:09:42 PM »

Over this past month, I and others have been getting ditch messages while landing GVs in towns while on concrete. Not everytime, but enough times.

What are the designated areas a GV can land on in towns now?

MajWoody · « **Reply #1 on:** April 28, 2007, 10:01:12 PM »

I haven't had any probs when I land on the hanger pad. I've gotten ditches when I landed on the road.

LYNX · « **Reply #2 on:** April 28, 2007, 10:01:43 PM »

never happened to for years because I park along side a building or in between them .

Snork · « **Reply #3 on:** April 28, 2007, 10:10:59 PM »

I parked an LVT2 between buildings this morning and got a ditch.

jon · « **Reply #4 on:** April 28, 2007, 10:12:30 PM »

i have had the same problem

sgt203 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 28, 2007, 10:43:22 PM »

I have also gotten ditch in between bldgs..

MajWoody · « **Reply #6 on:** April 28, 2007, 10:48:38 PM »

Jeeze,

I misread the post. sorry.

MOIL · « **Reply #7 on:** April 29, 2007, 01:30:02 PM »

Funny you bring this up, my squaddies were just talkin' about this last night. We all have had several "ditches" while parked on the pavement???

My suggestion and opinion would be to make the entire area inside the city a "safe" place to land IF it is your city.

Anywhere INSIDE the line IMO should be a safe zone and should result in a successful landing. With the new terrain changes it's sometimes a roll of the dice weather you get a ditch or not even tho you're on "pavement"

Just a thought

Spikes · « **Reply #8 on:** April 29, 2007, 03:19:27 PM »

I just lost 14 kills in a flak due to ditch in town. Ive lost over 20 more this patch.

jon · « **Reply #9 on:** April 29, 2007, 06:42:29 PM »

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Originally posted by MOIL
Funny you bring this up, my squaddies were just talkin' about this last night. We all have had several "ditches" while parked on the pavement???

My suggestion and opinion would be to make the entire area inside the city a "safe" place to land IF it is your city.

Anywhere INSIDE the line IMO should be a safe zone and should result in a successful landing. With the new terrain changes it's sometimes a roll of the dice weather you get a ditch or not even tho you're on "pavement"

Just a thought

I have addressed in an erlier post
look here
why would that be any different than an airfield?

jon · « **Reply #10 on:** April 29, 2007, 10:08:56 PM »

ERR earlier:eek:

kj714 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 29, 2007, 10:19:35 PM »

Maybe the game is only programmed to recognize a safe landing on what it calls concrete. To redefine whole areas as "safe" would probably mean making the whole base out of concrete. I've always wondered if safe landings at spawn points mean the area around the spawn is just recolored and textured to blend in "concrete".

Serenity · « **Reply #12 on:** April 30, 2007, 01:15:27 AM »

Make the WHOLE base a safe spot! Earlier this evening I taxid an Ar-234 to the re-arm pad, misjudged the building distance and broke my wings off. My nosewheel was INCHES from concrete. Got a ditch. While 30 points is truely trivial, its the principal of it! I hadnt taken a single hit, and there wasnt an enemy for 3 grids!

moneyguy · « **Reply #13 on:** April 30, 2007, 10:00:12 AM »

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Originally posted by spikes
I just lost 14 kills in a flak due to ditch in town. Ive lost over 20 more this patch.

you dont "lose" the kills, they just dont show up for everyone to see.

Krusty · « **Reply #14 on:** April 30, 2007, 10:14:28 AM »

Here's how it works for vehicles.

If you're ON friendly concrete, you should get a "safe" landing every time -- should, there's the odd report that at times it doesn't.

If you're closer to a friendly base than an enemy base -- and this includes out in the wilderness -- you will get a safe landing as long as nobody is around. I mean NOBODY. If there's so much as one person within x miles of you, it's a ditch. I think you might even be able to tower out safely at an enemy field, as long as there's nobody around.

Somebody did a lot of testing way back when Stalin's Fourth was run, because we were using GVs often in it.