Acks should be worth more points

[bloom25]

Earlier tonight I attacked a40 in a heavy d hog.  I used rockets to take out 3 acks on the first pass, then proceded to take out all but 1 of the remaining acks.  As I turned to get the last one an ostie ended my fun in a rather rude way.

Guess how many perk points I got for killing at least 7 acks?  .56.  If I would have downed even a useless fuel bunker I would have gotten more than that.  In this version at least acks are the hardest thing to JABO.  IMO it's the bunkers that should be worth less than the acks.



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[prz]

Unless I care squat for score (happens often ;-), I don't touch ostis & acks. They're very hard to get (well, ostis are, acks only if more than 3 are up) and worth nothing. Especially disturbing, in a fighter sortie you get squat for killing ostis, acks & boats so what's the point taking the risk. I agree, more perk for acks, count ostis & PTs as kills even in fighter sortie ...

[Karnak]

I killed an Osti and a PnZ IV while doing a fighter sweep in a Tiffie, landed and got 4.5 points.  That's not too bad for two kills.

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[CavemanJ]

ok bloom, I'm gonna slightly hijack yer thread and broaden the scope a touch  

Perk points for objects in general need a serious tuning.

In my thread  Can you swim?  I landed after sinking the cruiser in the top shot.  Wondering what landing a ship kill was worth I went to the hanger and found a whopping 6.25.  IMO that's a little low for braving the PT boats, enemy fighters, and the murderous fleet ack to kill a ship, then getting home alive and landing after making a torpedo run in a Ju88.

Also if you successfully make your run, but die before the ship is sunk (to whatever cause) it appears you get NO perks for it.

[This message has been edited by CavemanJ (edited 02-15-2001).]

[MrLars]

I trust the perk point system will have to evolve before all the inequities are ironed out.
Yesterday I took an F6 to 10 for some ground attack fun. I took out a Bomber Hanger, ammo dump and an ack then had to RTB because of damage, my total perkies for landing that sortie was a whopping .84 points.
I never watched my scores in other OL games but the perk system kinda makes you take notice. If a succesful Jabo run scores less than a full point and a milk run scores 65+ points, I'm sure the Cods will look at the way perkies are awarded.



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[LJK Raubvogel]

Don't feel too bad Caveman, I took out a CV with a P-38 a few nights ago. Landed in 1 piece, got a whopping 2 perk points. Hardly worth the effort.

[CavemanJ]

 

Originally posted by LJK Raubvogel:
Don't feel too bad Caveman, I took out a CV with a P-38 a few nights ago. Landed in 1 piece, got a whopping 2 perk points. Hardly worth the effort.

Yup, specially since we both nailed capitol ships.

Just doing damage to something won't give ya any perks either.  Unless you get "XXXXX Destroyed" in YOUR buffer you ain't gettin any perks fer it, no matter what hazards you overcame for it.

I'm sure they'll tweak it out over time, til then some of us will just have to keep pointing out where it needs a few tweaks  

[sling322]

MrLars...just a thought, but did you designate that sortie as "Attack" or was it designated as "Fighter"?

[Apache]

Took out a v field the other night, vh and both acks. Scored as attack, .70 points.

[MrLars]

 

Originally posted by sling322:
MrLars...just a thought, but did you designate that sortie as "Attack" or was it designated as "Fighter"?

Sure did..infact, I spawned and .ef because I forgot to select Attack the first time. Seems every time I go to fly an attack sortie I wind up spawning twice because of my forgetfulness :/

Lars

[bloom25]

Yep, landing a cv kill results in 6.25 perks, same as a field cap.  (I think the cruiser is worth the same amount.)

I think acks should be worth at least 1 point each.  Hangars should be like 3.  Bunkers only .5.  Factories at the strat targets should only be worth .5 as well.

I once took a p47d25 last tour and took out about 15 factories and the acks at the grunt training place.  I got about 40 perk points.

That was SO each compared to taking down 7 acks at a base.  I ping from the acks now almost always results in a fire or instant death.  Not only that but it's super accurate this version.



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