Lets get this straight

[warhed]

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.

OK, just one more time because I'm a little slow... 
If someone puts a lot of bullets into an aircraft, but does not take a vital part off, and then I come along and take a wing off with one round, I will not get the kill correct?  Thank you for clarifying sir

[Lusche]

OK, just one more time because I'm a little slow...  
If someone puts a lot of bullets into an aircraft, but does not take a vital part off, and then I come along and take a wing off with one round, I will not get the kill correct?

Most likely you won't, unless his "lots of bullets" where .303's and your single round a 30mm

Yesterday I put a lot of 303s into a B25H which finally lost it's wing... did get an assist though, 'cause another player had previously but some .50 cal's into it without any visible effect.

[bagrat]

Bagrats Sure fire method to getting kills.

1. shoot em till they blow up (i like to hear teh boom boom)
2. dont fly wit large hordes 
3. fly K4
 

i like the enemy to know I killed em, building animosity amongst enemy makes for fun... otherwise why not go play golf or somethin
 

[Latrobe]

Are all the kill stealers on the Bishop side?? I fly Knights and Rooks and have only seen someone purposely chase a plane to the ground for the kill when they knew it was already dead maybe twice a year.

[Rich46yo]

Well I decided from now on when some dolt is shooting over my shoulder I'm going to veer violently into his bullet stream. Cause if I'm 600 from the con, and he's 400 in back of me, then he's 1,000 from the con and is just being silly, selfish, and stupid.

Yesterday I almost got kill/shot cause some P-51 pilot flew in front of my IL2 to strafe a T-34 with his MGs.

I like both the Rooks and Nits, the 2 sides I fly, but both pretty much have the equal amount of cheese shooters. Cheese shooting is a big reason why I dont like furballing and prefer desperate defense and GV hunting.

The worst kind of cheese shooting isn't shooting shot up and dead aircraft falling from the sky. While that happens its kinda rare. More often its the guy zooming in at 500 mph, while your just squeezing off 300 from the con, after working for position for long minutes, and not just stealing your kill but causing a kill/shot of you.

I dont think there is anything wrong with the modeling. Only the playing.

[B4Buster]

I give my squadies who have a thing for stealing my kills, not going to mention any names *cough* (shamus) *cough* *cough* a fake check 6 to try and scare them away.

[Unit791]

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.

Well if you go by that philosophy, than what would be the point of having a kill-counter?  Or announce how many kills you got?

[trigger2]

I see an easy way to fix this.

Most countries, rather than awarding assists, would award "partial kills." For example, if three people were to help take down the plane, each would get 1/3 of a kill. Sounds fair.

"Trigger2 landed (insert sideways 8) and 1/4 kills in a B-24J of all things"

[BnZs]

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.

No. IIRC, they changed it to wear damage *AFTER* a vital part (whole wing, etc) is shot off no longer counts, IOW, no stealing the kill by shooting at spiraling wreckage.

[Spikes]

Lol a "warning shot" Rarely works.

[morfiend]

Well if you go by that philosophy, than what would be the point of having a kill-counter?  Or announce how many kills you got?

 I guess you didnt read the last 4 words of Dot"s post.

[Nemisis]

Fire a warning shot?


And waste ammo?  

I'm flying A-8's with MG ammo coming out the a**.

[ImADot]

Well if you go by that philosophy, than what would be the point of having a kill-counter?  Or announce how many kills you got?

It's a game, and most games have some kind of scoring system; so for those of you who care, HTC came up with something.  For those of us who don't care, we just fly around and enjoy the fights.  Besides, score and rank are easily manipulated - so mean absolutely nothing except to make it easy to know who the score potatoes and insecure people are who need to see their name in lights to justify their existance.   

[waystin2]

It is so hard to steal squaddies kills now!  Fix it Hitech!

[LCCajun]

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.

Amen best answer yet.