Ac fuel as a supply drop

[Seighin]

Ahem, I just spawned 25-30 miles and used no gas. And yes Krusty I know they burn no fuel.. that aside..
I do watch my fuel load. RTB always at 25% religiously. Mobile refuel, hmm... do not see the down side. As for yourself Krusty it just shows your awesomeness that you would never need it.

[fbEagle]

for all who say -1 whats the downside?

[MK-84]

The hundreds of squeakers crying on chnl200 for gas for starters...

[Krusty]

It cheapens the efforts of everybody else in the game. That alone is a massive detriment. It further de-values the "value" of landing safely in the first place. It brings the game down 1 step closer to arcade XBOX levels.

[surfinn]

The hundreds of squeakers crying on chnl200 for gas for starters...

ya I'm sure a ac on the ground would use 200 for a help call

[B-17]

I am one of the few people who would (I actually have in my two weeks) willingly drop fuel/supps/whatever to an airman in distress.

[Tilt]

Actually if it were possible to COAD that the supplies could only be collected on the basis that they were there before the ac landed for refuel then I would support it. The idea for me is to create a temporary forward base....... not provide emergency fuel for pilots who did not make it back to base.

[muzik]

The plan accordingly argument is just flat a bunch of bull. If every flight you do in here went according to plan you wouldn't ever die now would you? This option would take team work to do and leave you and another player very vulnerable on the ground for a short period of time.

As far as the getting your name in lights I personally could care less about that and really kinda wish they would take that out of the text buffer. I do like to land my aircraft at a field and if you could do that with the help of a squadie driving a 25% max fuel boast a short distance away from a airfield or close to a vehicle spawn point then again whats the problem with that.

Von the Tank supply comment was just simply pointing out that the programing tools are already hear and shouldn't take much to modify for a simple fuel boost. I'm not a programmer though so my assumption may be in compleat error on that point. Only a fool would take less fuel than what he needed for his flight. I cant imagine anyone using it as a gamie option it would leave ya to exposed.

Ozz it happened in England quite often.

This was a good idea the last couple of times someone made a thread out of it.

I suggest you dont waste your time trying to talk sense into the senseless, but I enjoy being reminded who's who and you never know, expose them to enough common sense and they might acquire some. Keep on fightin that BBS Justice League.

Go back and read the other threads on refueling a/c.

so, only one account of this happening?

No, it happened hundreds if not thousands of times on all sides. It happened before the war, it happened during the war, and it has happened since the war. It happened in training. It happened in combat zones. It has happened because pilots got lost, it happened because they got preoccupied and it happened because they got shot at. Anything else you want to know?

[Karnak]

My Mossie ran out of fuel the other day.

I still don't want this.

[thndregg]

I only read enough of this thread to get the pros & cons of this little debate.

My thinking is like a few notable others, here. Plan, plan, plan-bearing in mind there are many dynamic variables involved in any sortie or mission, INCLUDING getting your fuel tanks shot up.

I've put together many bomber sorties & missions, and people invariably ask me why I chose to launch from a far away field with "X"-amount of fuel, and why we don't haul *** right off the get-go to our destination & do our thing. It's simply because anything can happen. We plan our route, our fuel, our formation tactics, our altitude & exit accordingly, and it's the "bad-guy's" job to also plan how he/they will countermeasure our strategy.

The guys on the other side of the fence have an idea of what's going on as well. That's why this game is great at making you think about what you are doing before you commit yourself to either what turns out to be a great sortie/mission, or your unfortunate "demise".

[muzik]

It cheapens the efforts of everybody else in the game. That alone is a massive detriment. It further de-values the "value" of landing safely in the first place. It brings the game down 1 step closer to arcade XBOX levels.

I have to double post for this one.

So you say someone else taking the added time and effort (more effort than your "successful" sortie as a matter of fact) to wait for fuel and work his way back to base "cheapens" your timid yet successful flight.

And you punish player A with a perfectly legitimate reason for running out of fuel because player B...MIGHT try to game the game. (as if someone would consider waiting an extra 20 minutes for a fuel drop, a cheat) OMFG that's brilliant.

 but in this thread-->

What you suggest penalizes player A for player B's actions. Might as well roll a dice on landing and randomly remove points for no reason.

You cannot police thought patterns Grizz.

It's ok to cheapen the efforts of everyone else by landing wheels up in a perfectly good plane.