Arena Damage Announcements... Questions and Comments.

[AKP]

First of all, I think damage scored is a nice add, (not needed, but nice) but... I have a few questions and comments.

1)  I understand the change to show damage scored when you land a bomber... but there are no longer kill messages shown for the B-25H when landing kills in it... even if I am in attack mode instead of bomber mode, and damage no objects, just other players.  It seems reasonable that if the B-25H is being scored as an attack plane, it should show an arena message on the number of kills landed... given that it is likely to have scored kills against GV's... and that is it's role.  I do understand that you still get credit for the kills in your score... so no complaints there.  But it would just be nice to see the heavy attackers (B-25H / A-20) get the arena announcements as follows:

When in Attack Mode: Arena Announcement for Kills Landed
When in Bomber Mode: Arena Announcement for Damage

2) Also... is there a lower limit on the amount of damage you have to do get "get your name in lights"?  If not, they seem a little pointless, as everytime someone even drops a field gun, they will get a damage awarded message broadcast to the whole arena.

3)  And on a final note, I took out a cruiser and scored hits on a CV in a flight of B-24's.  In the arena, it showed that I landed over 11,700,000 damage points???    Which umm... seemed a little outrageous to say the least.  When I looked at my score, (and this was the first time I had flown in bombers this tour) it showed 70766.06 total damage points.  Not sure how the math works on that... can someone explain?

[Flipperk]

First of all, I think damage scored is a nice add, (not needed, but nice) but... I have a few questions and comments.

1)  I understand the change to show damage scored when you land a bomber... but there are no longer kill messages shown for the B-25H when landing kills in it... even if I am in attack mode instead of bomber mode, and damage no objects, just other players.  It seems reasonable that if the B-25H is being scored as an attack plane, it should show an arena message on the number of kills landed... given that it is likely to have scored kills against GV's... and that is it's role.  I do understand that you still get credit for the kills in your score... so no complaints there.  But it would just be nice to see the heavy attackers (B-25H / A-20) get the arena announcements as follows:

When in Attack Mode: Arena Announcement for Kills Landed
When in Bomber Mode: Arena Announcement for Damage

2) Also... is there a lower limit on the amount of damage you have to do get "get your name in lights"?  If not, they seem a little pointless, as everytime someone even drops a field gun, they will get a damage awarded message broadcast to the whole arena.

3)  And on a final note, I took out a cruiser and scored hits on a CV in a flight of B-24's.  In the arena, it showed that I landed over 11,700,000 damage points???    Which umm... seemed a little outrageous to say the least.  When I looked at my score, (and this was the first time I had flown in bombers this tour) it showed 70766.06 total damage points.  Not sure how the math works on that... can someone explain?

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Thats why I wont go to Texas A&M   

[bagrat]

i got 18,000,000 points on bomber run can u beat my score? BRT HIGH SCORE

[AKP]

i got 18,000,000 points on bomber run can u beat my score? BRT HIGH SCORE

My point exactly...  the numbers are meaningless if we have nothing to gauge them by.  They dont equate to anything in the scoring/ranking system (unlike number of kills).  And there is no way to judge how many, or what type of targets were destroyed.

I think its great to see the buff pilots get some time in the spotlight... but we need it to mean something.

And I wasn't bragging bagrat... just pointing out that the in arena score does not match up with the one shown in your rank.  So 

[Lusche]

Yup, abstract 8-digit numbers aren't very telling and will probably just get ignored even by many buff pilots:  "Wait, did he land 812,367 or 8,123,667 points?"

It's also not very nice to take GV kills landin announcement away from Il2's and b-25's...

[stodd]

i got 18,000,000 points on bomber run can u beat my score? BRT HIGH SCORE

20,865,488 and 2 spits.   


Was bored dont hate.

[Shuffler]

I find it amusing and a waste of buffer space

[bravoa8]

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Thats why I wont go to Texas A&M   

I'm a longhorn fan myself.

[Shuffler]

My Daughter was a UT fan all her life..... she is a freshman at A&M now because they are one of the top 3 in the country for Meteorology.

[PFactorDave]

I find it amusing and a waste of buffer space

Agreed

+1

[Krusty]

You apparently don't fly bombers much....

It's been requested since way way back. Some way of showing bomber achievment. Kills don't really count, especially since you can have a super successful mission without landing any kills.

[Lusche]

Oh, the idea is great, just the execution seems a bit .. err... improvised and leaves a lot to be desired .

[Chalenge]

Blatant attempt to rob the bomber pilots of their new found glory!  

[AKP]

You apparently don't fly bombers much....

It's been requested since way way back. Some way of showing bomber achievment. Kills don't really count, especially since you can have a super successful mission without landing any kills.

   Maybe that was directed to someone else.  I fly bombers quite often.  And I do think that it's a nice added feature.  But I think they need to make the damage points that come up in the text buffer match what hits your score sheet.  And I also think that if you choose the "attack" option, you get kills to show up in the arena notification instead.  

[Krusty]

It was aimed at dave and shuffler's replies that it's "a waste of space"