I hear a lot of murmuring about the HO and suicidal type maneuvers, at the risk of running off player’s, it would seem a great deterrent for these types of tactics to have a re-spawn timer in place.
I suggest having to actually ride down the silk and players can then re-up after they touch down. For those that want to smack the mud at terminal velocity the code opens your ‘chute at 1500 anyway. Bail at under 500 and it’s a death time out. (see next paragraph)
The game already has a bail, ditch, capture, and death stat. Use this to determine the timer. EX:
Bail- As soon as the player is on the ground he can re-up. Subject to enemy strafing your chute might have to put a protect on that for game play.
Ditch- Proximity to Friendly Base equates Re-up time. Say 2min+ distance to base to simulate a pilot recovery. This may well deter the drop eggs and bail crap I see bombers pull all the time. Also opens this up for SARS type mission to pick up pilots.
Capture- Same as Ditch but a more lengthy time.
Death – A collision death should flag both colliders and if perishment occurs on that sorty then both are hit with a 5min re-up. Regular kills would equate to the parachute ride down from Alt. Code may be a trick to simulate but an alt check at death could fire off the timer.
Delaying the pilot may sound harsh but I believe it will give the crazed suicides something to think about while they watch their buddies fly. My only concern is the blatant misuse of this by ramming all the time. Maybe a piece of ram-code to detect abusers, 5 in a hour and you’re flagged. And yes I have run up the back of a bomber from a dive, pulled up into aspect 0 targets etc, it happens but I try not to do it as a tactic.
These rules would apply differently to the GV side of course as they already have a built in timer due to drive time. In fact I would leave them they way they are.
I know it’s a game but the ace pilots and HO masters are a serious threat to the true enjoyment of my errr THE game>)
And after all, the topic is WISH list.
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INexx out
