WWI "Rules"

[doomed]

I to have been "rammed to death" about 10 times in last two days,most likely due to shorter ranged effectiveness,but i also came to AH from wb about 6 months ago where i played DoA all the time and they had a ramming issue there years ago due to the same thing. You had to get so darn close. There solution was to turn off collisions in the DoA arena and that made it so lame IMO everyone just flew right at each other guns blazing and you would pass through each other and the skillless would run though you guns blazing on purpose as the only tactic to win against a seasoned fl yer and that arena basically became just a crap shoot of 50,50 live or die on merge.


So IMO and just mine even though i hate the collisions I'm just going to try harder to avoid them rather than have them turned off.  Just my 2 cents.

[Edgar]

Umm... I guess you totally ignored my OP where I said I was run into from behind on each and every occasion.

This is a simulation, right? So in a simulation, if your plane is rammed from the front, back or side, you will take damage. Why wouldn't you take damage if you are hit from behind? because its someone Else's fault? If someone rams into the back of your car driving on the road, your car will take damage wont it? Maybe you caused it, maybe you are partially at fault, and maybe you are not at fault at all, regardless, you should take damage if 2 planes collide.

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Edgar

[BaldEagl]

This is a simulation, right? So in a simulation, if your plane is rammed from the front, back or side, you will take damage. Why wouldn't you take damage if you are hit from behind? because its someone Else's fault? If someone rams into the back of your car driving on the road, your car will take damage wont it? Maybe you caused it, maybe you are partially at fault, and maybe you are not at fault at all, regardless, you should take damage if 2 planes collide.

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Edgar

First of all, no, this isn't a simulation, it's a game.

Think about what you just said and then transfer that to the LWA, MWA, EWA or DA.  If you ram into someone from behind you both take damage.  Any pilot who's flying with a K/S or K/D ratio of less than 1:1 will benefit from ramming people from behind intentionally.  Is that really what you want the game to devolve into?  I know I don't.

[BaldEagl]

double post

[Edgar]

First of all, no, this isn't a simulation, it's a game.

Think about what you just said and then transfer that to the LWA, MWA, EWA or DA.  If you ram into someone from behind you both take damage.  Any pilot who's flying with a K/S or K/D ratio of less than 1:1 will benefit from ramming people from behind intentionally.  Is that really what you want the game to devolve into?  I know I don't.

Fair enough, Its a game, but I personally don't this that their are that many people that deliberately fly into you to get a kill at their own expense. Sure it happens, but I don't think that most of the time it is deliberate.

Are you saying that if someone flys into the rear of you in the main that you don't take damage? I thought you could both take damage?

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Edgar

[Lusche]

First of all, no, this isn't a simulation, it's a game.

Think about what you just said and then transfer that to the LWA, MWA, EWA or DA. 

The collision model is exactly the same in all arenas. For good reasons.

[Yeager]

First of all, no, this isn't a simulation, it's a game.

First off you are wrong.  It is a simulation AND a game.  Dont even try to argue with me 

[kingcobradude]

most ramming in ww1 is unintentional. these planes have wings and other parts anywhere from tunnel vision creators to smack in your face. pretty easy to crash without seibng the other guy. second, your fighting at close ranges with some less than aerodynamic perfect planes. third, one wrong turn in a furball can send you into the other guys radial pretty easily.

[68ZooM]

Chances are when your in a big furrball in these Kites you are going to either hit or be hit, theres to much going on with these tight turning planes to keep a good SA going, i try to either intise one of the planes to the outside of the furrball to come out where its clear, or i go the the center of the Map and call on 200, them big furrballs are just to crazy       

[dkff49]

I had a perfect collision with the snailman today. A classic case of one wrong turn and a half second later staring at a face full of prop and engine.

[Lusche]

I had a perfect collision with the snailman today. A classic case of one wrong turn and a half second later staring at a face full of prop and engine.

And this pic I took right after I ditched. Yes, that's from this very collision of ours:

[dkff49]

Very nice pic there lusche. Too bad I was not as lucky as you, I insta-deathed from that.

[Banshee7]

           

GUAPO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WWhiskey]

 bet you have not done this yet!

[1carbine]

I got rammed from behind twice by the same guy on the same sortie tonight then later got rammed from behind by three different guys in less than a minute.

Did you try telling them no means no?

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 bet you have not done this yet!

AWESOME Whiskey  

And I tried it in a WWI hanger it didn't go so well