Puffy Ack

[Spikes]

Please just do away with it.
It does nothing to threatening airplanes (bombers, bomb-laden planes)
It kills the fight and at fun CV furballs forces the fight under 3K, while the attacking planes can freely go above 3K and pick.
It fires at you while you are well out of range it should stop at.

Please just do away with it or code it so it only fires at bombers.

[xthecatx]

 

[321BAR]

Please just do away with it.
It does nothing to threatening airplanes (bombers, bomb-laden planes)
It kills the fight and at fun CV furballs forces the fight under 3K, while the attacking planes can freely go above 3K and pick.
It fires at you while you are well out of range it should stop at.

Please just do away with it or code it so it only fires at bombers.

puffy ack works both ways spikes   be the defender who brings the fight above 3k and watch what happens to the attackers also puffy works differently than Manned 5"ers

[SEseph]

Now I may be wrong on some of the facts, but the base of my question I hope is easy to understand.

If the new dar rings are 20mi, then the old were 10mi as they were seemingly doubled. At the 10mi mark, the 5" was a useless toy trying to hit something at such a distance. Only the 8"'s could do such. Now, when flying at 25-30k alt in a bomber, puffy ack begins to go off. The distance at that height is 4.7mi to 5.6mi. Now, while typically the 5" could hit this on the ground, how on earth can it not fire 10mi with a relatively flat trajectory, yet can fire approx 5mi+ straight up? (this also assumes puffy ack is automated 5" by the potential damage output I have seen)

[Lusche]

Now I may be wrong on some of the facts, but the base of my question I hope is easy to understand.

If the new dar rings are 20mi, then the old were 10mi as they were seemingly doubled. At the 10mi mark, the 5" was a useless toy trying to hit something at such a distance. Only the 8"'s could do such. Now, when flying at 25-30k alt in a bomber, puffy ack begins to go off. The distance at that height is 4.7mi to 5.6mi. Now, while typically the 5" could hit this on the ground, how on earth can it not fire 10mi with a relatively flat trajectory, yet can fire approx 5mi+ straight up? (this also assumes puffy ack is automated 5" by the potential damage output I have seen)

Old dar ring was 12 miles.

And the trajectory for hitting a target on the ground for a 5" at 10-12 miles is not as flat as you might think.

For example, a 5"/38 gun firing a AAC mark 49 round has to shoot at a 40° angle to get a range of 17,000 yards.

[Spikes]

puffy ack works both ways spikes   be the defender who brings the fight above 3k and watch what happens to the attackers also puffy works differently than Manned 5"ers

Think I know how it...works.
Fact of the matter is I've yet to see a set of bombers get killed by it while attacking a CV and it will knock fighters out of the sky all day in a furball.

[ACE]

In a way I like puffy but in another I always get killed by it lol.

Spikes just think if your the guy uping off the CV you have a big disadvantage cause you don't have a big plane set to chose from.
Basically, you don't have much of a chance unless you get above the 3k puffy limit so it can be on yoru side.
Put it this way the enemy is flying around on there crotchrockets and your sitting there on your mini bike lol 

[Spikes]

In a way I like puffy but in another I always get killed by it lol.

Spikes just think if your the guy uping off the CV you have a big disadvantage cause you don't have a big plane set to chose from.
Basically, you don't have much of a chance unless you get above the 3k puffy limit so it can be on yoru side.
Put it this way the enemy is flying around on there crotchrockets and your sitting there on your mini bike lol 

You also have a wall of auto ack to fly through and mannable 5", 40mm, 20mm guns to deal with. Can the puffy ack not be coaded to only fire at bomb-laden planes first?

[SEseph]

Old dar ring was 12 miles.

And the trajectory for hitting a target on the ground for a 5" at 10-12 miles is not as flat as you might think.

For example, a 5"/38 gun firing a AAC mark 49 round has to shoot at a 40° angle to get a range of 17,000 yards.

so in AH that would be the max extent of the range, as it's about 9.6mi. As the height of the barrel changes though so does the possible distance. The only way to achieve the maximum distance is to take the entire arc into account, thus giving the distance you quoted. Also, when changing angle, gravity's effects must also be considered. When one points a barrel at a 90 degree angle, the distance is cut in at least half, not only because you can't count the full arc as it's distance, but you also no longer have the kinetic energy you did during the 40 degree arc to get that distance to begin with. Most of it is used up just trying to get to that height. (It's easier to fly around the world than it is to launch straight into space which isn't all that far in relative terms.)

[Lusche]

so in AH that would be the max extent of the range, as it's about 9.6mi. As the height of the barrel changes though so does the possible distance. The only way to achieve the maximum distance is to take the entire arc into account, thus giving the distance you quoted. Also, when changing angle, gravity's effects must also be considered. When one points a barrel at a 90 degree angle, the distance is cut in at least half, not only because you can't count the full arc as it's distance, but you also no longer have the kinetic energy you did during the 40 degree arc to get that distance to begin with. Most of it is used up just trying to get to that height. (It's easier to fly around the world than it is to launch straight into space which isn't all that far in relative terms.)

And the point is?

[321BAR]

Here's the question...does puffy ack in the game have an altitude limit?

[IrishOne]

Here's the question...does puffy ack in the game have an altitude limit?

80k.   i think Chalenge likes to be alone up there tho 

[whiteman]

will say i've seen Auto Puffy kill plenty of fighters but never a set of buffs.

[321BAR]

will say i've seen Auto Puffy kill plenty of fighters but never a set of buffs.

buffs roll through the ack too fast to be hit by it

[whiteman]

buffs roll through the ack too fast to be hit by it

I'd take that as a good reason but I've got blasted out of the sky by puffy from a cv i never saw while in a 262 going much faster than buffs.