Lets get this straight

[Unit791]

Ok, heres the deal, apparently HiTech made this new thing where whoever takes off the vital part of the enemy airframe gets the kill right?  I have yet to see this work for i continually get assists when I blow someones tail or wing off, some zipcode flys below me, pelts the plane with bullets, and I get an assist.  Explain.

[AirFlyer]

Chances are that person already has a significant amount of damage done to him. The new system does not guarantee you a kill if you knock out a vital part, but rather once that vital part is broken it stops others from stealing your kill by shooting it. If someone had already put a ton of bullets into an enemy plane and then you get the one hit wonder that breaks a wing, you won't get the kill.

[warhed]

Chances are that person already has a significant amount of damage done to him. The new system does not guarantee you a kill if you knock out a vital part, but rather once that vital part is broken it stops others from stealing your kill by shooting it. If someone had already put a ton of bullets into an enemy plane and then you get the one hit wonder that breaks a wing, you won't get the kill.

If that's the case, then some clarification is needed.

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# Changed plane damage scoring so that any further damage that is done after a critical component is destroyed is not counted towards the scoring of the kill and assists. Critical components are as follows: complete (not partial) wing loss on one side, loss of all horizontal stabilizers, loss of all vertical stabilizers, loss of rear fuselage, and fuel fires.

[fbEagle]

Well yesterday I was flying a La7 and shot the vertical & horizontal stabalizers off a Lancaster while there was noone around then a friekin zip code (like youi said) flew in and folowed the bomber to the water and shot off its left wing. This was after i shot it out of the sky, while the bomber was falling and he got the kill and i get the assist. 

[ImADot]

You killed him...you know it, he knows it.  That's all that matters.  The rest is for score potatoes and insecure people that need to see their name in lights to justify their existance.

[morfiend]

 Just fly infront of the noob trying to kill your kill and let kill shooter take care of it!

   

[Nemisis]

I know its kind of abusive of the check 6 thing, but I've seen it used to drag kill stealers away. Or just fire a warning shot in his general direction and tell him to cut the crap.

[morfiend]

You killed him...you know it, he knows it.  That's all that matters.  The rest is for score potatoes and insecure people that need to see their name in lights to justify their existance.

 QFT!!

  Thx Dot,cracked me up...   Oh and nemisis firing a shot to warn is stupid,if you hit them you damage yourself,but if you played the game you'd know that.

[Nemisis]

I do know that. But if you're accurate, your shots will pass by him. Won't work without tracers though.

[ZZee]

I do think the current model needs some fine tuning. It does seem a lot of times the least deserving person is awarded the kill.


Z

[Lusche]

I do think the current model needs some fine tuning. It does seem a lot of times the least deserving person is awarded the kill.


Z

how would you (or the program) determine the "most deserving person" ?

[Chalenge]

Thats easy... all questionable kills should be awarded to ME whether I am online or not. 

[warhed]

I thought the kill awarding was changed to who took the vital part off first.  Is it that, or who puts more damage into the aircraft BEFORE a vital part is taken off?

[Unit791]

Fire a warning shot?


And waste ammo?  

[Lusche]

I thought the kill awarding was changed to who took the vital part off first.  Is it that, or who puts more damage into the aircraft BEFORE a vital part is taken off?

You quoted it yourself:

"Changed plane damage scoring so that any further damage that is done after a critical component is destroyed is not counted towards the scoring of the kill and assists."

The system is still the same: Whoever caused most damage gets the kill. Which doesn't necessarily have to be a visible component being shot off. The change is just that any hits made after a critical component has been destroyed do not count anymore.