Ac fuel as a supply drop

[surfinn]

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.

[skorpion]

Ozz it happened in England quite often.

wheres the proof? or is that just a bunch of bull?

[guncrasher]

So I guess we need to conserve ammo as well too...bring enough ammo and RTB when your out...no resup

LOVE THAT IDEA A LOT!

you should that way we can stop those annoying 200 comments "go away no ammo".


semp

[surfinn]

wheres the proof? or is that just a bunch of bull?

There is one account in this book P-51 Mustang By Gardner N. Hatch, Winter Frank H.

A P-51 pilot named John P Kessler landed his ac safely off base refueled his air craft and flew it back to base the next morning. 

[skorpion]

There is one account in this book P-51 Mustang By Gardner N. Hatch, Winter Frank H.

A P-51 pilot named John P Kessler landed his ac safely off base refueled his air craft and flew it back to base the next morning. 

so, only one account of this happening?

[vNUCKS]

There is one account in this book P-51 Mustang By Gardner N. Hatch, Winter Frank H.

A P-51 pilot named John P Kessler landed his ac safely off base refueled his air craft and flew it back to base the next morning. 

On that note, let's include resupply, and you can wait until the next morning to fly back to base.  My guess is most of us will just end mission and be back in the air in 30 seconds.

[surfinn]

On that note, let's include resupply, and you can wait until the next morning to fly back to base.  My guess is most of us will just end mission and be back in the air in 30 seconds.

Well lets do the same thing for the gv instant repair to. The time constraint in this account was the flyer celebrating Christmas with the locals. You kind of have to read between the lines on that one but I'm sure if he would have instantly contacted his base they would have sent a Jeep with fuel a lot quicker;)

Scorpion Ive read a lot of books over the years that gave several accounts of Air craft landing safely off base due to low fuel or simple mechanical failure. I gave you but one example from a book that I know of. That example alone is enough for you to hopefully man up and retract your early comment if not then do your own research and find other examples or find examples where they just left the plane in the field because it ran out of fuel never to be used again.

I swear the objectores in here just cant stand the thought of a kill they didn't earn getting away.

[Wiley]

With all the people on the forums who seem to want the ability to ferry gas, pick up pilots after they ditch, and whatever other drudgery type jobs people want modeled, why are there never enough GV supplies, town supplies, or troops where they're needed in the arenas?

Answer that, and you'll have the answer why it's not worth the code to implement.

Wiley.

[Krusty]

If the SECOND you request or accept the extra gas, your sortie is scored and marked as a loss (also awarding kill to the person that last shot you up), would you still want it? Keep in mind you've been given as a kill to a bad guy still flying. Maybe as a proxy for the nearest bad guy. Would you HONESTLY waste an hour or two coordinating a gas dropoff and refuel, etc?

Remember: I said "HONESTLY"... No fibbing just to forward your agenda. You're done. The score is computed. As far as the game is concerned you towered. Sortie over. Maybe even disable all your guns until you up a new plane to prevent abusing the system by refueling every 5 minutes next to a furball because you only took 25% to game the game.


Would you still want it?

[cactuskooler]

+1, I just want to drive the Jeep though.

[guncrasher]

With all the people on the forums who seem to want the ability to ferry gas, pick up pilots after they ditch, and whatever other drudgery type jobs people want modeled, why are there never enough GV supplies, town supplies, or troops where they're needed in the arenas?

Answer that, and you'll have the answer why it's not worth the code to implement.

Wiley.

yeah these are the same people that wanted a ww1 arena, and the b29.

semp

[surfinn]

Krusty
Honestly no I wouldn't want that to happen. The person who last got a round in ya doesn't "deserve" the kill because he didn't get a kill if you can still land your ac refuel it and take off again. I'm not asking for nor do I want a instant repair or even more ammo just a fuel boost. Oh and to refuel every 5 mins next to a furball bringing only 25% fuel would be stupid. You would just give two kills to the furball, you and the person trying to help you.

To compare the code time it took to build a ww1 arena and this simple idea is a little bit extream I think

[VonMessa]

+1, I just want to drive the Jeep though.

I wouldn't trust you with driving a garbage truck   

[Tilt]

Our terrains have fields pretty close together these days. However as a generality I like the idea of player created  dumps.

IMO the real target is to effect seperate supplies for ammo, fuel, troops/repair.

I would not like to see aircraft repair in the field although some patch work was carried out at temporary fields. Dont see why troops shouldn't be dropped off to be later collected from a temporary strip.

[Wiley]

To compare the code time it took to build a ww1 arena and this simple idea is a little bit extream I think

It's nothing to do with the amount of time it takes vs the WWI arena, and more to do with 'adding something that gets used twice by everyone, then ignored by all but a couple of people'.  Same with the B29.  Majority voted for it, a tiny minority flies it.

Wiley.