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Offline Lusche

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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #60 on: March 06, 2011, 08:37:12 AM »
I mix it up sometimes I milk run a town sometimes I help out and hit hangers and or ord, is the 439% my carreer score or a sample taken early in this score period??. i was just calibrating just before I dropped and usually tried to drop a lil late.but then I started reading more in here and asked questions of the few people in game that will help in game.heard about using E6B for the first time in here,I tried setting my speed and keeping my alt just so,open my doors early,all that.I always tried to get my approach and e6B up as I cross into the radar ring.
and when I finally accomplish all these things I drop short...grrrrrrrrr. Of course I got the 5% from the ingame score sheet why wouldn't I? remember i am obviously an Idiot in many of you guys eyes so please keep the explanations simple

At any given point, your score is a result of all actions you made in the current tour, and it's reset at the begging of each new one.
The ingame score sheet is in some areas using some different formats, particularly in the hit% and damage hit% values. What seemed to you as 5% was actually 500%. The web bases score & stats pages do show not only the data in a slightly different format, they often do supply you with more details.

As with most things in game, bombing just takes a bit of practice to get the right feel, to know how & when to do what. You will learn how far away from your target you have to level off, so that you get to have steady speed & alt in time for a calibration, you will even be able to compensate for a few mph difference between actual speed as shown by E6B and the calibrated one (so that you don't have to re-calibrate frantically a few moments before the drop), and so on.

One quick tip: If your calibrated speed matches the E6B value, but you find your altitude being off: No need to recalibrate completely. By just going into calibration mode and leaving it you are calibrating your altitude only. So simply hit U twice, and you have the correct altitude data in a split second.
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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #61 on: March 06, 2011, 11:22:40 AM »
ok so I saw a guy that had a 12% ratio so he hit 1200% of everything he dropped on?

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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #62 on: March 06, 2011, 11:28:32 AM »
ok so I saw a guy that had a 12% ratio so he hit 1200% of everything he dropped on?

Yes, an ingame score sheet value of "12.0" translates into 1200% on the web score page (which is the one commonly used here in discussions).


But you can't use a phrase like "1200% of everything he dropped on". As i pointed out earlier, the type of target massively influences the hit% achieved. Dropping a bomb into a cluster of town buildings can give you > 3000%, killing an ords bunker with a single bomb will give you like 100%.
You hardly can measure a player's skill /ability to hit with this stat, most of the time it tells you more about his general choice of targets / playing style than about his actual skill level. (Which in general holds true for most things in score)

But i think this is way offtopic for the Bug Report Forum now... If you have further questions, you may better start another thread in the Help & Training section  :salute
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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #63 on: March 07, 2011, 07:46:16 AM »
Don't read a lot do ya krusty. Try giving my first post a CLOSE READING. Yes I am very accomplished in an AR234, I love hitting at 400mph+.

Sorry to say but Krusty is right, the 29 is very hard to bomb with. We have a squad member who has taken over 8 hours to perfect the bombing in a 29. Its not like any other a/c in this game, you dont just up it, bomb and fly home. Speed and RPM's are a big factor when bombing :salute
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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #64 on: March 25, 2011, 10:56:48 PM »
Just got done posting this in the General Disscusion topic about B-29 accuracy



Training arena. Perfect Callibration. The Bombsite crosshairs do NOT line up with the training arena's green "bombs will land here" crosshair.

The B-29 bombsite is NOT accurate.

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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #65 on: March 26, 2011, 12:17:46 AM »
Looks like your still accelerating.
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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #66 on: March 26, 2011, 12:59:45 AM »
Looks like your still accelerating.
even if accelerating, you drop them at 331 mph calibrated while youre going 331 mph it will hit dead on target if wind variables are out of the question
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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #67 on: March 26, 2011, 01:03:46 AM »
See Rule #4
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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #68 on: March 26, 2011, 01:32:39 AM »
Looks like your still accelerating.

A second test to remove lingering doubts that acceleration flawed my previous test.

Step 1:


Step 2:


Step 3:


The facts speak for itself. The B29's bombsite is NOT accurate.

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« Last Edit: March 26, 2011, 01:40:20 AM by Smkn »

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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #69 on: March 26, 2011, 11:42:24 AM »
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. Everybody kept saying "you're not calibrated right." It's frustrating and insulting. Thank you for posting the pictures, Smkn.
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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #70 on: March 26, 2011, 12:34:24 PM »
my b1tch is we dont need pictures to see this. I saw a post about all the other bombers possibly being off...but they are off such a small amount you dont noticee it...at all. in the B29 you can notice it. and it is sad. why was it modeled this way?
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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #71 on: March 26, 2011, 12:47:23 PM »
"Great job" to smkn & swoops for there pics of the bombsight issue. I really hope that it stays the way it is though since I have already developed my own "substitute" crosshair to use in the 29. I would kind of hate seeing this get fixed after I have spent time correcting it myself.

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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #72 on: March 26, 2011, 12:52:52 PM »
I left this topic alone because of all the creepy know-it-alls lurking around in here just waiting to attack.

Looking back, you basically had a meltdown after three posters merely questioned your original post not even a page into it.   :lol

Regardless, it looks like you guys uncovered a critical bug so nice job there.   :aok

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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #73 on: March 26, 2011, 01:00:39 PM »
See Rules #2, #4
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Re: B 29 bombing accuracy
« Reply #74 on: March 26, 2011, 01:07:24 PM »
You posted this:
Posting here sucks. I can post that "my house is white, I painted it with white paint, It has white shingles, I love the color white on my house" And someone will ask what color my house is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ARGHHHHHHHH

Is everyone here really that dense????

Basically after only Krusty questioned your post.  I'm just sayin, relax a little bit.  :aok