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Offline SmokinLoon

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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2014, 10:58:25 PM »
I'd like to see the "Twilight Zone" fly boys get curtailed as well.  Stay on the map or back to the tower you go!   *puuf*
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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2014, 04:33:23 AM »
I didnt even know this was happening. Shame on those pulling it. Real cheesy.
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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2014, 09:30:04 AM »
Most people don't go to the edge of maps for a fight.  ;) 

No, but some get chased there.  And you can end up going off the map for legitimate reasons during a fight. 

So, how about a sixty second countdown, and then the fuel burn multiplier goes to 4X? 

Or...  Instead of a brick wall, as some have suggested, a wall of puffy ack.  It gets heavier and more accurate the longer you are off the map?
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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #18 on: February 17, 2014, 10:43:43 AM »
No, but some get chased there.  And you can end up going off the map for legitimate reasons during a fight. 

So, how about a sixty second countdown, and then the fuel burn multiplier goes to 4X? 

Or...  Instead of a brick wall, as some have suggested, a wall of puffy ack.  It gets heavier and more accurate the longer you are off the map?
4X is nothing to some bombers.  Make it 20X or 60 seconds and then <boom> back to the tower.
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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #19 on: February 17, 2014, 06:40:07 PM »
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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #20 on: February 17, 2014, 08:50:38 PM »
I used to love flying off map in RR small euro arena and end up in the other RR arenas.

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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #21 on: February 17, 2014, 08:57:28 PM »
How about as soon as you hit the end of the map all flight controls are disabled and you just keep flying further and further away until you get bored and bail... or end up in China.
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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2014, 09:50:05 AM »
Found our captured CV once at the edge.  Came back with bombers and it had disappeared.   Edge of the map is a huge green wall.  A 262 pops out of the wall and attacks..hmmmm.  We fly through the wall and theres the CV in the twilight zone.  Drop is good....wait...wait...boom boom boom booom....no damage.  Bullets and bombs were all rubber on the other side of the wall.

Map edge should be the game boundary.  Solid 60K cliff, giant flying squid or whatever, but something that puts you in the tower or makes you turn around immediately.
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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2014, 01:44:34 PM »
Found our captured CV once at the edge.  Came back with bombers and it had disappeared.   Edge of the map is a huge green wall.  A 262 pops out of the wall and attacks..hmmmm.  We fly through the wall and theres the CV in the twilight zone.  Drop is good....wait...wait...boom boom boom booom....no damage.  Bullets and bombs were all rubber on the other side of the wall.

Map edge should be the game boundary.  Solid 60K cliff, giant flying squid or whatever, but something that puts you in the tower or makes you turn around immediately.

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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #24 on: February 18, 2014, 04:41:00 PM »
anything that flies off the map should turn into a Storch
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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #25 on: February 18, 2014, 06:49:43 PM »
One of our huge maps on the right hand side has a finger of water that runs south past a V base. Then it has a hidden canal that circles the map. When you fly off the map over that canal, your weapons fire, bombs drop, but do nothing. CV's get hidden there for the duration of the map and tolerated with the general knowledge of the fact. Some argument can be made for the heat of the moment and you were forced there in a fight during air operations. Kind of lame since you know for a very long time where that boarder is.

If you cross that line, your bullets, bombs and rockets should no longer work when you cross back into the active game arena. It's like teachers today saying kids will be kids while watching your kids cheat on a test using their cell phones. Suddenly cheating becomes a noble enterprise with no consequences other to those who refuse to be cheaters in that school. Either going off the map is not wrong and get rid of the arrows calling it super NOE stealth mode. Or some boundaries have to exist to not insult your paying customers who play by the few rules in the arena.
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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2014, 07:47:21 AM »
Put a 50,000mph down draft at the edge of the map so that somebody trying to go out of bounds just has their wings torn off and is slammed into the ground.

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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2014, 08:55:03 AM »
you should appear on the opposite side of the map. like in asteroids.


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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #28 on: February 21, 2014, 09:13:16 AM »
you should appear on the opposite side of the map. like in asteroids.


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Re: Please HTC....make it possible to see how many cons are off map
« Reply #29 on: February 21, 2014, 11:54:47 AM »
I came back from AFK and found myself way off map and out of fuel when I noticed a train............so I shot it.