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Offline 1Boner

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Re: Options when Hot padding
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2009, 07:17:29 PM »
How realistic is 30 second rearm/refuel to begin with?


Depends on who's in your pit crew I guess. :noid
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Offline Cajunn

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Re: Options when Hot padding
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2009, 07:30:33 PM »
I don't know about adding to a set up, but I think changing fuel load and removing bomb's or rocket loads would be nice.

Note: to add bomb,rocket, or ammo load out you should have to land and re-up a new plane IMO! or at least have to drive it into the hanger and have a 5 or 10  min. wait
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Offline SectorNine50

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Re: Options when Hot padding
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2009, 06:18:20 AM »
You can't judge people for wanting to re-arm as there is nothing wrong with doing it.  People like seeing how many kills they can land in one sortie, so what?  Score is a big part of the game for a lot of people, just like a personal record in a race is more important to some more than others.  I see no issue with giving someone the ability to change parts of the load-out (fuel and ord, not guns though) if they feel like it.  I know I've re-armed before because I liked the quasi realism of taxing off, waiting to be re-armed, and then re-starting, taxiing, and taking-off all over again, it had nothing to do with the number of kills I had.  Hell sometimes I'll even taxi from the hanger to take off and then taxi back to the hanger after landing.  Whatever floats your boat.

I also agree that FSO's could definitely use this ability as well.
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