I bet this has made you mad before

[Tyrannis]

my story isent exackly the same as yours jo, but it was a dam long time.

couple months ago, was in EW, was trying to chase a lanc down, he was 4k above me, and if i ever started to gain on him, he;d raise his alt again, so for prob 20 mins we played the "raise your alt so he cant get me"game.

im guessing the lanc has a higher ceiling alt than the 190a-5, cus after we reached 30k, he kept climbing, but my plane wouldnt climb anymore. nomatter how many times i tried to pull up, my nose would just get pushed back down to 30k.

i followed him the best i can, the smug buff must of known i couldnt go any higher, cus he stayed JUST out of range of my guns,but close enough to taunt me with the kill. 

[Oddball-CAF]

So I chase buffs, they are at 30k and right before I got in icon range, he bails them all out

Hi Joachim,
    It wasn't perchance "vGazoo" of the Devil's Brigade, was it? I enjoy keeping track of Gazoo's epic exploits
ever since the day I was trying to CAP a fleet and thrice he intentionally bailed all three after waiting to
see if I was going to give chase to him after he dropped on the fleet.
  As soon as he'd expended his ords, he'd make a turn back home. However, once I turned towards him
and he could see the range closing, poof...he bailed.
  While I use vGazoo as an example, he's certainly not the only guy that does this and yes, I concur, it
absolutely is frustrating.

Regards, Odd

[Lusche]

Which once again points out how ironic it was yesterday, when some vDude was complaining about lame enemy bomb'n'bailers

On topic: No there is no good way to prevent this happening. A few years ago even Mr. Hitech himself started a discussion about this, however, no proposed "solution" was ever implemented, for it either could have been easily circumvented or would have hurt the "honest" player (often without much effect on the bailers themselves)

[RamPytho]

There has to be a way to code in, that if a bomber doesn't either receive land successfully message or you've been killed by messages that they get no perk for the sortie.

[Lusche]

There has to be a way to code in, that if a bomber doesn't either receive land successfully message or you've been killed by messages that they get no perk for the sortie.

If a bailer would care about perks, he would already try to get home (bailing does cost you perks). This is not a deterrent to someone who's simply trying to get as much lbs on the enemy in as little time as possible.

[VonMessa]

I say film it and then endlessly ridicule them on the BBS. 

Bombing and bailing has slowed down in a big way since the name-in-lights for buff drivers has been implemented.  While I thought that to be a silly idea, at first, it seemed to cut back on that behavior so perhaps it was not so silly...

Now, bomb/bail tards are less prevalent, but just as asinine.  I'm not sure that there is much more that can be done about it.

The things one must do to keep their "#1 base-taking skwad" status.

 It must be a hard life...

[Lusche]

Bombing and bailing has slowed down in a big way since the name-in-lights for buff drivers has been implemented.  

Now that you mention it... I think you may be right  

[DEECONX]

I say film it and then endlessly ridicule them on the BBS. 

 

[VonMessa]

Now that you mention it... I think you may be right  

There was never an incentive until recently.  It just used to be a blurb on country chat...  "I just dropped ords/VH/<insert object here> at <insert base # here>  The might have been a few thank-you's from some and a couple of WTG's from others, but not much in the way of a reward for landing them.  

How about this... (just came to me)

Proxy kills for bailing from undamaged buffs given to closest enemy player, regardless if you got damage from them or not.

System: <bomb/bail cpid> has just baled for no reason from a perfectly intact, undamaged set of <insert bomber here>

[Lusche]

Proxy kills for bailing from undamaged buffs given to closest enemy player, regardless if you got damage from them or not.

Then I will damage my buffs in a few seconds before bailing

[VonMessa]

Then I will damage my buffs in a few seconds before bailing

Undamaged from bullets.  Not counting self-imposed damage (as in ripping wings off)

(you make me think too much)   

Besides, I was just brainstorming...

[Soulyss]

I dunno, if you're going to impose a penalty on bailing from undamaged planes how about the chute automatically deploys and you can't tower out while in the air. 

[EskimoJoe]

I dunno, if you're going to impose a penalty on bailing from undamaged planes how about the chute automatically deploys and you can't tower out while in the air. 

/thread.

 

[VonMessa]

I dunno, if you're going to impose a penalty on bailing from undamaged planes how about the chute automatically deploys and you can't tower out while in the air. 

         

[Lusche]

I dunno, if you're going to impose a penalty on bailing from undamaged planes how about the chute automatically deploys and you can't tower out while in the air. 

They will just ride the plane to the ground then