Chute Towering

[hubsonfire]

I really miss shooting chutes.

"It's not enough just to win; someone else has to lose."

If they want to die and get to the tower quicker, let 'em freefall from five thousand feet, or ride the wreck in. Just my opinion, but if a mob of guys are trying to kill me, I'm not too worried about which hordemonkey gets the kill. <shrug>

<edit> Blau's idea is a good one, IMO.

[Delirium]

The MA, I will always go for a chute, even if it exposes me to another fighter. Nothing says, "I'm a score monkey" more than when someone bails out. If I can convince just one guy a month that their score isn't worth it, maybe AH will improve.

In a scenario enviornment, I do not shoot at 'floating meatbombs'.

[Lusche]

Nothing says, "I'm a score monkey" more than when someone bails out. If I can convince just one guy a month that their score isn't worth it, maybe AH will improve.

You can't imagine someone's bailing out for different reasons than simple scoring?
BTW, I'm pretty sure most players bailing do not even know how and to what extend bailing does modify their score and thus rank...

[Tilt]

One day it would be nice if a bail initiated an auto sequence where by the pilot opened a canopy or door dragged himself out and then once clear of the ac opened his shoot.

That way a single macro would not enable a successfull bail and tower out from a vert dive 100ft off the deck.

[Delirium]

You can't imagine someone's bailing out for different reasons than simple scoring?

What other reason is there to bail in the Main Arena?

[Lusche]

What other reason is there to bail in the Main Arena?

For me it's my own "realism" or sim-like approach, opposite to a pure gaming or even airquake one. Part of the silly pretending of being a fighter pilot .
 I try to win, I try not to get shot down, I try to get home every sortie and I do at least try to save my virtual pilot's "life" by bailing. Heck, I do even bail when having no kills at all, so it doesn't gain me anything.

Bailing itself has a completely negligible influence on my score or rank. In current tour, my succesful bails just "saved" me ~5% of my scorepoints, which in turn make up only 20% of the rank calculation. Had I choosed to ride every plane to the ground, my rank wouldn't have changed at all.


Oh, and sometimes im just hanging there, enjoying the view of a big air battle. And If someone is not bailing over his own town or over a GV battle, I leave him floating in peace

[mechanic]

Being back in the fight quickly should be the privelage of those who ride it in, bailing out for your score's sake should cost time and the risk of being shot. It used to be that way.

[dkff49]

Being back in the fight quickly should be the privelage of those who ride it in, bailing out for your score's sake should cost time and the risk of being shot. It used to be that way.

I rarely ever open chute and tower right away. This gets me back to the fight faster than riding it in. This is the only reason I bail. why ride the plane down 5k feet when I can bail and tower in 2-3 seconds. I could care less about score or the bogus idea of only real men ride it in.

I have also bailed out to make sure that the right person receives credit for the kill when someone decides to try and steal it. I only do ths when the fight that happened previously was a good fight.

[Bronk]

What other reason is there to bail in the Main Arena?

Well how about so the tardlets cant steal a kill from the guy who actually earned it?

 

[mechanic]

I have also bailed out to make sure that the right person receives credit for the kill when someone decides to try and steal it. I only do ths when the fight that happened previously was a good fight.

that is a good point, i do that also to stop the dweeb who is obviously coming to finish my other wing off.

[E25280]

Also worse K/D.

Bailing already counts as a death for K/D ratios.

[E25280]

What other reason is there to bail in the Main Arena?

Because <enter><enter><enter> "dot" E F gets me in the tower quicker than riding it in.

Plus see Bronk's post.

Plus why do you (or anyone else) care what anyone else does for fun?  Play your way and let them figure their way out for themselves.  If you don't care about rank, why should you care what the rankpotatos do anyway?  Simply the joy of griefing?

[BlauK]

Bailing already counts as a death for K/D ratios.

Then make bailing count less, like a disco is (? I believe) only half a death.

[mechanic]

I think it would be awesome if 1/100 chutes here was packed with dirty laundry

[dkff49]

I think it would be awesome if 1/100 chutes here was packed with dirty laundry

that would be funny