Saw my first reset...

[Rider]

...and it hurt bad.  I was flying for the rooks the other day in Blue.  I had a hell of a kill streak going (for my skill level anyway) and I knew the war was soon to be won from all the radio chatter so I was looking to land.  I find the nearest friendly field, line up,chop throttle, gear down, touch down, brakes, slowing to a stop...reset...all of a sudden it's not a friendly field anymore.  Tracers were coming at me from all sides.  I was litterally a click away from ending a successfull sortie when I was killed at what was a friendly field just seconds ago.

That was my first experience with a reset.  It raises a few questions for me.  When the war is won the map apparently resets to some kind of default.  Why?  Why not just let it be until the map is changed in 4 minutes?  And speaking of that, if the map resets to a default you are often times going to be much further than 4 minutes away from a friendly field.  I guess the best you can hope for in that case is a ditch.  Now, I was specifically looking at the map when the reset happened, can someone please explain the reset process for me?  I don't mind dieing but I'm not big on surprises.

Thanks,
Rider

[Motherland]

Sortie doesn't count once the map's reset unless you land successfully.

[Ratpack1]

Surprise!!!!

[lyric1]

It is the last chance us Bish have to punish you evil conquerors.

[ImADot]

The way I understand it, the map resets and the base ownership is set to the next in rotation for that map.  In other words, it's setting which bases are owned by which countries the next time that map is used.

Yes, it's a bummer that it has to reset that way...since many people are trying to land and all of a sudden they're 50+ miles from the nearest friendly base.  But, as was said before, I too believe the sortie is thrown out if you can't land when the arena kicks you out.

Just another thing we all have to live with...I have more important things in the real world to worry about, so I don't get all worked up over it.

[Heretic]

Ummmm news flash Lyric.  Rooks and Knights are not evil land grabbers like the Bish

[stroker71]

I have been in that situation where I am landing about the time of a reset and get killed by the base I was defending/attacking.  If you stay in the alive till your disconnected that sortie won't count at all.  So your side is beating up vulching a field and someone from your side does something stupid like take the last field needed for a reset they screw you. 

[Steve]

Sortie doesn't count once the map's reset unless you land successfully.

It counts if you get killed by ack. 

[straffo]

lack of reset in AH is sad

[Masherbrum]

lack of reset in AH is sad

But straffo, there's a thing called "rank" to strive for!   

[straffo]

rank ... well ...

[DREDger]

Ummmm news flash Lyric.  Rooks and Knights are not evil land grabbers like the Bish

Oh yes we are

[uptown]

Don't worry Rider. Rooks won't reset again for another 6 months

[4deck]

*opens door and flashes lightbeam*  Hello

[Getback]

The nightmares once put together a mission of 8 goons and any fighter cover we could get. We had received word that the town was down. However there was probably more than 3 full dar bars of defenders at the bish base and they had been going at it for about 4 hours. There were bish, rooks, and knits all at this key base . I mean it was chaos beyond all comprehension. We came it at about 8 - 10k and let out our troops. You could see the panic in the defenders eyes. The enemy planes went into frenzy, diving to kill the troops. Once they went after the troops they were picked. When the base was captured it was like an atomic bomb went off. All of sudden no cons in sight. I laughed until I cried. 3 dar bars gone, just gone.