Send a bomber home! and bomber #'s when landing.

[Franz Von Werra]

As to if it's safer to send home or remain with pilot... obviously if you send it home, then it was decided - safer to send it home.

As to how it gets home, that's up to HTC... most of it is already programmed...
Consider how to make them land - come in slow, flaps down, drop gear... the two drones land on their own
So just need to extend the distance to final, maybe a last turn at most?
Wondering what happens if we come in perpendicular to a runway, drop flaps, lower gear...

and uh, there are never guarantees!

[XxDaSTaRxx]

There's just too many variables. How would you send the bomber home? What if it was intercepted? Would it fire back? There's limitless questions to this topic. It's not going to happen. As much as I want it to, it won't. It's possible, but there's so many more things that bombers need rather than this at the moment. Like a moon base, Arlo   good idea though

[gyrene81]

How would you send the bomber home? What if it was intercepted? Would it fire back?

just call on mario...

[Franz Von Werra]

I'm assuming that the ordered home drone wouldn't have an icon... making it safer than most anything else in the air!

[XxDaSTaRxx]

I'm assuming that the ordered home drone wouldn't have an icon... making it safer than most anything else in the air!

If bombers and bailers are already a problem, then it would make it worse. They could send both drones home, and then bail. The drones land, and give the bailer points. This topic just spells bad all over.

[Franz Von Werra]

If you send a bomber home, it does an autopilot dive straight to 'final' approach, and lands, ending part just like when we land our formation.
Oh and we only get landed if the player lands at least the last plane of the original three.

[Zoney]

-1

[SlipKnt]

This game is not intended for AI scenarios IMHO...

-1

 

[tmetal]

If bombers and bailers are already a problem, then it would make it worse. They could send both drones home, and then bail. The drones land, and give the bailer points. This topic just spells bad all over.

I don't really like the OP's idea, but this part is easy to avoid using one of two solutions.

1. even if drones are sent home, the player has to bail out of all three planes...just like they have to now before they are sent back to the tower to up another sortie; thus they would still collect the same penalty they currently get for bomb and bailing.

and/or

2. make it similar to the way torpedos are handled now. If a player can bail from his main plane and is NOT automaticly put into the drones he sent home earlier, but he is instead put into the tower, make it so that if he ups another sortie before the drones make it home the drones disappear and count as either ditches/deaths/captures based on thier location and any collected damage from enemy fire.

Again, I would -1 the OP idea but this particular argument against it is weak at best