EVZ the best way I can see to explain it to you is, your way would produce an infinite number more complaints in a few months than the current CM has since it's creation. HiTech and Skuzzy ( along with numerous others) have told you why it would be a terrible idea, and yet you dismiss not only other members of the forum,but the developer of the game. You are sure you understand the workings of the CM, and think that your way would be a more fair system, and that is when it becomes apparent that you do not understand the workings at all. If your system was implemented ( not that HTC would implement it), then flying at all would be completely and utterly frustrating to the point that many many would quit. Who would be interested in paying a subscription on a game they do not like? So it would be fair for me to be flying along,avoid a diving enemy and watch him clear me by 50 yards yet a few seconds later both of us are looking at the inside of the tower, because on his screen he flew right through me? That's not even taking into account griefers, oh imagine the fun it would be for them. If you shot someone down and they were upset about it, they could keep you in the tower all day,even if they had no chance of killing you in a fight, just by flying into you on their screen (and of course no way you could avoid the collision because you can't even SEE IT coming). This is an attempt to illustrate why it would be a bad idea, that would cause much more discontent than the current CM ever has. If you still want the CM changed to your way, then from now on every time someone collides without you taking damage, then just bail from your plane, convince the other guy to do the same if he doesn't take damage and voila you both died in the collision. I don't suspect you will find many willing to go along with you on bailing, for the exact reason your CM model wouldn't work, the thought of "I didn't collide with him, why should I die when no collision even happened on my end?"
