Kill scoring is fubar

[Wegaman]

  I in my b17, shoot down 1 NIkki who comes dead 6, he slowsly spins outta control down to earth in flames. His buddy gets me somewhow when i ping his plane all up, i go down and explode. I get no kills. shouldnt a kill count when u knock of thier stabs and wings? I am tired of being shot down and no kils for the people who are still goin down.

[StSanta]

When you explode or hit the ground, yer no longer flying (unless you count 3 million pieces of you   )

Seems a good compromise to me, even if kill steals and what you've just mentioned can be irritating.

It happens relatively rarely thoguh and doesn't bother me that much. I think we need to fix the kill stealer mentality rather than the software.

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Baron Claus "StSanta" Von Ribbentroppen
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
 
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I think." - A. Eldritch

[This message has been edited by StSanta (edited 01-27-2001).]

[eagl]

It would be nice if people would get the kill if they did the most damage to someone even if they died before the other person bailed or crashed or whatever.

I suggest a time period.  If I cause critical damage to someone but die before they "officially" die, if the other person dies within 1 minute of my own death I would still get the kill credit.  

This would avoid some of the really odd situations we saw in WB, where someone would get a kill credit for someone they pinged an hour and 2 deaths before, but it would still SEEM more fair especially if 2 people cause mutual kills in an HO or something like that.  

As it is now, if I remove someone's wing in a headon and he also removes mine, if I bail out and he rides it in and dies, he'll get the kill credit and I won't even though he died and I survived.  That just doesn't seem right to me.  Put a short time limit in there where kills still count after a death, and it'll all be good  



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eagl <squealing Pigs> BYA
Oink Oink To War!!!

[TheWobble]

I think the kill should be awarded when your adversary's or your plane suffers sufficient damage to render it un-flyable, I.E. wing totally gone, back of plane shot off...etc.

[Wegaman]

Wobble, people STILL KILL ME when they lose both wings or stabs, they ALWAYS SHOOT MY BOBMER DOWN AFTER THEY ARE GONE!

[TheWobble]

it happens wega, but did you not shoot them down? shuldent you still get a kill?  ya shot them down..