Storch Can Pick Up Downed Pilot to get a Landed Rescue Message

[Mitsu.]

If I can get 100 perks per 1 rescued pilot, +1. 

[Karnak]

Nah.  Hitech makes up his own mind.  Just pointing out why bad ideas are bad ideas, so perhaps if people see why they are bad ideas, they might consider their suggestions a bit more carefully, and refine their ideas before they come to the board with them.

Wiley.

Exactly.

[Baumer]

That isn't quite the same thing.  Running supplies in a jeep has an effect on the game.  If there were no cost to it being added and no benefit to the player using it I wouldn't have any problem with it being in the game, it would just be something for people to do when they wanted.  However, it has a cost in the time to program it and any benefit added to encourage its use would be detrimental to the game as the game requires players to fight against and the more the better.  Players sitting on a hillside waiting for rescue are taken out of that pool of participating players.

I also don't think it is reasonable to recover the perk cost of your B-29 if you don't land it successfully.

Karnak I purposely didn't state anything about the recovered pilots points or perks, you are applying your opinion and bias to what I said. Also, I agree with you that if this were to take SIGNIFICANT development I would be against it. However, I doubt it would take much time for HTC to develop this from the existing .join command.

I see only two parameters that would need to be checked prior to the .join command executing,
1.) Distance between the two players
2.) Speed of the player in the Storch     

[Karnak]

Karnak I purposely didn't state anything about the recovered pilots points or perks, you are applying your opinion and bias to what I said. Also, I agree with you that if this were to take SIGNIFICANT development I would be against it. However, I doubt it would take much time for HTC to develop this from the existing .join command.

I see only two parameters that would need to be checked prior to the .join command executing,
1.) Distance between the two players
2.) Speed of the player in the Storch     

If it were that easy to add and had no "Save your perks/score" feature, then sure, no harm no foul.  I do think that people would whine pretty fast that they waited for 30 minutes to be rescued only for it to not do anything for their perks/score though.

[tmetal]

If it were that easy to add and had no "Save your perks/score" feature, then sure, no harm no foul.  I do think that people would whine pretty fast that they waited for 30 minutes to be rescued only for it to not do anything for their perks/score though.

The way pilot rescue would affect a players score is why I am against it's inclusion in the MA but for it's inclusion in FSO and scenarios; where individual score means little-to-nothing and overall team score is the key factor.  However, I can't justify the time it might take to develop and code this feature, to only see use outside of the MAs. Quite the "rock and a hard place" problem for me.

[Chalenge]

This is a "WISH" forum, NOT a "demand" forum, people post "wishes". Why is it people get their panties in a bunch when someone makes a wish they disagree with?? Some of you guys act like your making up Hitechs mind for him...........

Consider it a primary vote with a lot of public input and interrogation of the suspect request.

[MAINER]

If I can get 100 perks per 1 rescued pilot, +1. 

  +1

[Rob52240]

LIke This?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na2RtXlFGsA

[Seanaldinho]

LIke This?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na2RtXlFGsA

Hey co-pilot why dont you do your job?! 

 

[BERN1]

I kinda like the idea.
maybe make the rescue score like a ditch.instead of a "you have been captured"
perhaps the pilots could split the perks if any applied? dont yell at me I do not understand the points system I just fly here

[Karnak]

I kinda like the idea.
maybe make the rescue score like a ditch.instead of a "you have been captured"
perhaps the pilots could split the perks if any applied? dont yell at me I do not understand the points system I just fly here

To the best of my knowledge, there is no difference in score between killed, captured, bailed and ditched.

[kvuo75]

To the best of my knowledge, there is no difference in score between killed, captured, bailed and ditched.

for perks, no difference, for actual score, yes.

[muzik]

"IT DOESNT ADD ANYTHING TO GAMEPLAY"   .........Oh brother  

How smart do you have to be before you have the mental capacity to understand that not everyones idea of "game" and "fun" are the same? There are several other sims out there that model LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNG boring flights, in boring aircraft, that are as successful or more so than AH. So your gameplay arguments are a complete fail.

As for the score whoring, what do you care if someone makes a few more points by getting picked up? Does it bother you when others get their name in lights? Do you feel jealousy? Do you think that you have a chance of catching up to the top players in the game if you prevent them from getting any more points or getting their name in lights?

I got news for you, you arent getting any closer to that number one spot than you are right now because your adolescent "I want to make the rules" attitudes show that you don't have the maturity to grasp basic common sense concepts. Perhaps the top players in the game were just as adolescent as you before they got to the top and mellowed out, so I will wish you all the best of luck in the hope of someday seeing fewer twits on the forums.

As for the coding, Im guessing an hour worth of work, tops. Lets see...how easy would it be to code this? HMM we already have a join command. Perhaps a little like this                 (if/command .join johndoe and johndoe is in xxxxxspecificvehiclexxxxx within xxxxfeetxxxx distance then player is attached to xxxxspecificvehiclexxxx)

you'll have to excuse my lack of coding etiquette, my genius is limited by my lack of interest in the subject.  

[Wiley]

"IT DOESNT ADD ANYTHING TO GAMEPLAY"   .........Oh brother  

I'm sorry.  I wasn't quite clear.  It would add something to gameplay:

Guy:  I'm bailed!  Somebody come and pick me up so I don't lose my score!
Guy2: I'm in the middle of sector 4,4! I have 3 kills!  Somebody come pick me up!
Guy3: PICKUP PLZ
Guy: ************************BAILED NEED PICKUP
Guy4: ne1 need pickup
Guy5: cmon guys somebody come get me ive been here for an hour

ad nauseum.

It takes people out of the fight to do menial tasks.  I couldn't care less about score.  I want opponents and people to wing with in the game, not bailed pilots waiting for pickup.

Simplicity of coding is irrelevant when it's not a good idea.

Wiley.

[RoGenT]

I like the idea because it is nice change to the game, and a chance to do something completely different. I think it might be fun to risk your score (if you in fact care about it) to brave the enemy fire to rescue a fellow countryman. Although he suffered some boo boos, BirdDog from Bat21 would be proud of this idea 

I say, +1