Collision question.

[BMathis]

I think it's time for General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett's pigheaded idea to be put into effect. This is all your fault with that sound reasoning mumbo jumbo.

Amen.  Quit making so much sense! 

[Karnak]

The problem with you, Lusche, is you have this knack of making sense.  

What about if both systems had to agree on the collision? I mean the rounds and ord are subject to the same laws I'd suspect, but not sure how difficult that would be to put in place or even the practicality.

That would enable aircraft not armed with explosive rounds to literally fly through their target, guns blazing.  It is hard to miss from 5 yards.

Needless to say, this would be a heavy distortion of air-to-air combat.

[morfiend]

Light speed too slow?

Yes, we're going to have to go right to....
Ludicrous speed.

  To be fair to Karnak I forgot to put the rolley eyes after my comment as I was being sarcastic!   I really meant when the internet runs at warp speed......




     

[Lepape2]

I think I found a new way to kill bombers when out of ammunition... do it 3 X times and fly home without a scratch 

[icepac]

I'm get hit by a plane while in a tank and the plane flies off undamaged?

Again....if I lost 75% of my collisions I would understand but there has to be some underlying issue why I lose 100% of them this last tour.

This counts me getting hit while in a c47 as well as my hitting a c47 yet I always die.

There has to be something other than game code that is causing this.

[Karnak]

I'm get hit by a plane while in a tank and the plane flies off undamaged?

Again....if I lost 75% of my collisions I would understand but there has to be some underlying issue why I lose 100% of them this last tour.

This counts me getting hit while in a c47 as well as my hitting a c47 yet I always die.

There has to be something other than game code that is causing this.

PEBCAK.

[Dantoo]

In fear of adding to the confusion - it is also possible to take damage from your OWN cannon at very close ranges.  I caught this on film a while back.  I was shooting at a plane that broke back into me as I fired.  I kept the button down and he exploded a millisecond before we should have collided (on my end).  On his end, we did collide, and I received a message saying so.  My damage was - can you guess??

A pilot wound!  I was originally quite confused.  How could a pilot wound be caused by a collision (and the message said he collided with me).  Slowing down the film showed cannon shells exploding on his fuselage just before I flew through his ashes and smoke.  The film also showed the pilot wound occurred fractionally before the "merge".

It may well be that if you are firing cannon into the face of a C47 at zero range then you are shooting yourself down.   A rare one for the purists anyway.

rgds

[LCADolby]

I think it's time for General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett's pigheaded idea to be put into effect. This is all your fault with that sound reasoning mumbo jumbo.

MERRRRRR

[Karnak]

In fear of adding to the confusion - it is also possible to take damage from your OWN cannon at very close ranges.  I caught this on film a while back.  I was shooting at a plane that broke back into me as I fired.  I kept the button down and he exploded a millisecond before we should have collided (on my end).  On his end, we did collide, and I received a message saying so.  My damage was - can you guess??

A pilot wound!  I was originally quite confused.  How could a pilot wound be caused by a collision (and the message said he collided with me).  Slowing down the film showed cannon shells exploding on his fuselage just before I flew through his ashes and smoke.  The film also showed the pilot wound occurred fractionally before the "merge".

It may well be that if you are firing cannon into the face of a C47 at zero range then you are shooting yourself down.   A rare one for the purists anyway.

rgds

Yes, hence why I specified guns firing non-explosive rounds would be able to fly through their target, guns blazing, in post #61 of this thread.  Explosive rounds have splash damage and you can shoot yourself down with your own guns, particularly in the 30mm+ sizes.