Originally posted by CAP1
so, let me get this straight...........i, completley defy the laws of physics, and drive my aircraft upwards into a diving aircraft? or better......i have reverse? i can actually go from 350mph foward to fly backwards into a higher aircraft? wow!! i have some serious skills, huh? its ashame they don't help me kill more though(couldn't hit water if i fell outta a boat)
seriously.....i've heard this EVERYWHERE::::if you get the WHITE collision message, then you were hit, and recieve NO damage(wrong from my experience) if you get the ORANGE message, then you DID the hitting, and will suffer damage(corect, at least for me). i've been hit at angles that were impossible for me to have contributed to with the exception of being in the fight, and went in with very large important parts missing, i've done the hitting...quite by accident.....and suffered the same fate. i don't know how it REALLY works, but it DOES NOT work like everyone's telling me/us.
OK -- first thing you have to get over is that
the collision model is a no-fault system. What I mean by that is that there is no "blame" to be assigned in a collision -- either your computer detects that your plane and an object occupy the same space (in which case a collision has occurred) or it does not detect it.
If observed from the outside on your computer, the only thing that matters is if your plane and another plane intersect. It does NOT matter if his nose hits your plane, or your nose hits his, or whatever. THERE IS NO BLAME. It simply is, or is not, a collision. No one is the "hitter" and no one is the "hittee", only a "hit has occurred."
If your PC detects a collision
regardless of whether or not you actually see it coming, you will get an orange message that says "you have collided". You will then take damage.
If you get the white message "so-and-so collided with you", then you DID NOT take damage UNLESS you simultaneously see the orange text. In that case, it was a rarity where both your PC and his detected a collision at the same moment (usually only occurs during HOs).
Back to the "Hint": If you get a white message that so-and-so collided with you, and you did NOT get a simultaneous orange message -- then any damage that appears to coincide with the white message is due to weapons fire - plain and simple. If he was close enough to smack into you, he was also close enough that tapping his trigger is bound to hit your airframe with catastrophic force.
Accept the fact that your PC may detect a plane fly into yours when that is not what occurred on the other guy's PC. It happens.
