Puffy Ack Whine Thread - WARNING: pictures

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Field ack isn't friendly safe at all.

I've had 3-4 situations where I've had a pilot wound or sheared wing from friendly field ack attack.  It's usually because they're firing at the guy I'm chasing, and as their shots are usually missing behind the plane, they're whizzing past me as I follow.

And the funniest thing is that if manned ack hits you by accident that won't do damage at all.

[zack1234]

Its a disgrace I flew over enemy cv and had two kills I dive down onto to set of Lancasters that was flying for CV ack cover, TKO and Twinboom saluted me for my efforts.

To be honest it was two sectors to get home and it was a godsend

I logged forwith and went for a plop and to get ready to do the weekly shop

[RotBaron]

I've had cv puffy ack take out a drone and more than once.

I've had strat puffy take out my lead plane and/or a drone countless times, and none of these times  (strats) was I less than 12k or greater, i.e. so it was not auto-ack.

It does happen.

 

[Big Rat]

I think it HTC's way of saying don't fly perk planes near the carrier, and nobody should be flying a spit XVI .  If you were flying a VAL you probably would have been fine   I agree though, Buffs do seem to get through the auto ack fairly easily.

 
BigRat

[Vinkman]

Caldera,

It has been explained over and over and over and yet you and others keep creating these stupid threads.  Bombers do get hit more than fighters do by far.  The issue you see is that a single hit will kill or cripple a fighter but a bomber is usually unaffected other than losing some hit points from the section that took the hit.

Why?

Bombers are much, much tougher than fighters.

Solution:

HTC increases the puffy ack damage by 100, thus any hit to any plane is fatal.

Result:

Players see that bombers get hit much more often than fighters.  Bombers are slaughtered by CV groups and by strats.

OR....

The Puffy shuts off in the presence of a friendly fighter. The fighter is much more of a threat to the buffs than the puffy is. So the puffy is making the carier more vulnerable. Certainly not the intention.
In real life, wouldn't they cease firing, if friendly planes were moving in to attack enemy planes?

wouldn't that make everyone happy?

 Win win. 

[Noir]

OR....

The Puffy shuts off in the presence of a friendly fighter. The fighter is much more of a threat to the buffs than the puffy is. So the puffy is making the carier more vulnerable. Certainly not the intention.
In real life, wouldn't they cease firing, if friendly planes were moving in to attack enemy planes?

wouldn't that make everyone happy?

 Win win. 

+1 but I can imagine the difficulty to coad it

[Pand]

OR....

The Puffy shuts off in the presence of a friendly fighter. The fighter is much more of a threat to the buffs than the puffy is. So the puffy is making the carier more vulnerable. Certainly not the intention.
In real life, wouldn't they cease firing, if friendly planes were moving in to attack enemy planes?

wouldn't that make everyone happy?

 Win win. 

Nice Vink!  This is the idea we have been waiting on.   

[Nathan60]

OR....

The Puffy shuts off in the presence of a friendly fighter. The fighter is much more of a threat to the buffs than the puffy is. So the puffy is making the carier more vulnerable. Certainly not the intention.
In real life, wouldn't they cease firing, if friendly planes were moving in to attack enemy planes?

wouldn't that make everyone happy?

 Win win.  

Probably be easier to make friendly Puff non damaging to you.

[Zoney]

OR....

The Puffy shuts off in the presence of a friendly fighter. The fighter is much more of a threat to the buffs than the puffy is. So the puffy is making the carier more vulnerable. Certainly not the intention.
In real life, wouldn't they cease firing, if friendly planes were moving in to attack enemy planes?

wouldn't that make everyone happy?

 Win win. 

Vinkman, Vinkman, Vinkman...................... ...........so simple....................... ................love this idea man, well done.  You gotta know HTC can do this, he's kind of a big deal in the world of code......

[JOACH1M]

My favorite is when I'm getting shot at my puffy and the cv is almost completely out of sight! I swear it shoots well beyond 20k radius.

Another favorite of mine is when the cv shoots me when I'm trying to defend the base from the horde and I can't even get up over 3k with out getting shot at even more.

[Triton28]

My favorite is when I'm getting shot at my puffy and the cv is almost completely out of sight! I swear it shoots well beyond 20k radius.

This happened to me a couple weeks ago.  Climb out to kill buffs inbound to CV, make passes (puffy popping all around - no hits on me), climb back out for more inbound... climb, climb climb, ping... dead.  Our CV was to my dead 6, no puffy popping, no enemy near, and the CV was a good ways back.  It was weird enough I thought I had run into an enemy CV. 

Squaddies told me I was just stupid.   

[Bizman]

If something like that happens, it'd be the best time to send in a lottery ticket, too. People really do get jackpots, as often as someone gets killed by their own puffy ack compared to the amount of sorties. Or, if you like, calculate the possibility of this true event: A hunter saw a wood grouse sitting on top of a spruce. He shot at it and missed, instead the bullet killed his brother who was sitting with other hunters at a fire two miles away. I'm surprised that those hording fluffy dust bunnies don't kill more.

[Vinkman]

Nice Vink!  This is the idea we have been waiting on.   

Thanks. Headed to the Wish list. 

[Vinkman]

+1 but I can imagine the difficulty to coad it

HTC already calculate which enemy is the closest to the CV and then calculates a puffy box around the enemy based on speed and course changes. So it might be really simple...

IF friendly in Puffy-box THEN choose different enemy.

So if all the bandits have friendlies near them...no puffy.

[caldera]

Interesting idea.  Either that, or have puffy ack actually hit what they are aiming at once in a while.