I try it again:
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You are the P47, I'm the ramming P51. Picture shows moment of collision from your point of view. (See "Lusche has collided with you" at bottom)
When you could change our current collision model: Should your plane (the 47) take damage from this?
OK, here's how I feel it should work, and I will answer your question herein, then your gang can go about belittling me for having a different view.
Each plane has a bubble around it, determined by something like average distance between what two typical FE's see a plane's position is. For this discussion, let's say this bubble is 20 feet. Let's call it a bubble of latency.
In your scenario, the 51 reached a distance on it's FE of say.. -1' from the 47. in other words, the 51 actually intruded on the 47 by one foot. Only if one FE shows an actual collision should the following occur:
The 51's FE then querys the 47's FE and asks what distance it sees. If the 47 doesn't see the 51 intruding at least half way into it's latency bubble, in this case 10 feet, no collision takes place. If the 47 sees the 51 more than half way into its latency bubble a collision occurs. I think that if one plane takes damage from a collision, the other plane must as well. That's it. I'm not trying to change your mind, I'm just giving my opinion. If that makes me a whiner, so be it.