Rescue/pick up downed pilots

[guncrasher]

Players can only join you from the tower. To change that would likely require a major rewrite of the game, Hitech will correct me if I'm wrong, for a very minor benefit.

If you truly want to rescue a pilot just for the fun of it all you have to do is land next to them, wait for them to exit to the tower and join you, then fly them home.

If you want to improve your score there are other ways to do that which don't require rewriting the game code.

you can join as a gunner from the tower.


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[FLS]

You can join any aircraft as an observer. There doesn't need to be a gunner's position.

[Babalonian]

but for score purposes it is the same thing.

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[PAKFRONT]

I think it would be kinda cool to pull the dumbo duty near a furball, When I land, start offloading all the guys who's plane didn't make it back.. Their kills start showing up as they step off the dumbo.. See a long column of kills landed in the buffer, you know the Dumbo made it home..
I think Dumbo and Rescap would be a cool addition to the game.. Some players don't care about gamedeath..  And others don't like dying.. This would be an option, instead of disappearing into the vast pacific, never to be seen again..

[guncrasher]

I think it would be kinda cool to pull the dumbo duty near a furball, When I land, start offloading all the guys who's plane didn't make it back.. Their kills start showing up as they step off the dumbo.. See a long column of kills landed in the buffer, you know the Dumbo made it home..
I think Dumbo and Rescap would be a cool addition to the game.. Some players don't care about gamedeath..  And others don't like dying.. This would be an option, instead of disappearing into the vast pacific, never to be seen again..

pilots who bailed cannot land successfully, and a bail/ditch is the same thing for scoring purposes  it only makes a difference on the perks earned I believe.

second of all do you see anybody actually opening their chute when they bail?  you seen anybody not shooting at the chute when it opens  .  you going with the assumption that a pilot will open the chute, then nobody will kill the chute, then that the enemy fighters would all leave and then you can go in a pick up the pilots and come back untouched.  wont happen very often.

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[Karnak]

I think it would be kinda cool to pull the dumbo duty near a furball, When I land, start offloading all the guys who's plane didn't make it back.. Their kills start showing up as they step off the dumbo.. See a long column of kills landed in the buffer, you know the Dumbo made it home..
I think Dumbo and Rescap would be a cool addition to the game.. Some players don't care about gamedeath..  And others don't like dying.. This would be an option, instead of disappearing into the vast pacific, never to be seen again..

As the rescued pilots would still have been shot down and lost their aircraft, there is no reason to think that HTC would allow them to "land successfully."

Any bonus large enough to make it worth it to those pilots, having been shot down, to sit on a hillside and wait for a slow vulnerable taxi to maybe take them home instead of .efing and rejoining the fight would be bad for the game.

pilots who bailed cannot land successfully, and a bail/ditch is the same thing for scoring purposes  it only makes a difference on the perks earned I believe.

It makes no difference for perks.  In both cases you earn 100% of the perks you had gotten prior to being shot down.  You get 125% of the perks you earned if you land successfully.

[MK-84]

I like the idea, except for one big problem

the channel flooded with "pick me up, pick me up"

This slows down gameplay, and would be an annoyance on country chnl.

[PAKFRONT]

As the rescued pilots would still have been shot down and lost their aircraft, there is no reason to think that HTC would allow them to "land successfully."

Well then, I guess that the oldest of Aviation wisdom just doesn't apply to Aces High huh???
"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one!" And if I am not mistaken, gettin fished out of the drink didn't nullify any medals, kills, or anything else for the pilot.. Just another act of heroic endurance and perseverance.. Atta boys all around!

Oops forgot to move the cursor before I started typing.. Oh well..

[Karnak]

Well then, I guess that the oldest of Aviation wisdom just doesn't apply to Aces High huh???
"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one!" And if I am not mistaken, gettin fished out of the drink didn't nullify any medals, kills, or anything else for the pilot.. Just another act of heroic endurance and perseverance.. Atta boys all around!

AH is a game and has to have scoring rules.  Reality is not a game and does not need clear scoring rules.  In reality, pulling a pilot out of the drink or from behind enemy lines allows him to rejoin the fight.  In AH doing so will delay his rejoining the fight because he could have just instantly been back at the tower and back in the game.

[PAKFRONT]

I know what you are sayin Karnak, I'm just looking for something new and different in the game..
The new doodads in game are cool, but haven't resparked my interest as I had hoped..

I hunger for new tactical problems to be solved..
New combat scenarios, new processes to work through,
Something NEW TO DO! But it's just not here, bummer..

While I was gone, game got some great new "Items"..
Outstanding work on the new tank controls and gunsights!

But alas, there is really only the same old objectives..
Still waiting patiently..   
Hell, the way things are going, I may not ever get back to this game again..
I know, who cares right, lol!

PAK

[Karnak]

Wanting new things is fine, I have posted such requests too, but we have to do our best to be sure that the new thing we ask for will be good for the game.  Making it something that will be used would be good too.

[tyronehoza]

Very good idea!