Instadeath for flying off the grid

[Mano]

........if you fly off the map to the east then you reappear in the west. 

The same for the north ---> reappear in the south
The northeast -----> reappear in the southwest
And ect.

That makes it fair for everybody and in certain situations it could cut some time off
of your long flight while you are getting altitude.

 

[Arlo]

Noooo nonono no please no.

[The Fugitive]

Fly off of map=kill engine/engines. 
Some folks may actually fly off of the map accidentally.  This way this will have a brief chance to glide back in play and restart their engine.

Coogan

I like this too, simple and sweet.

........if you fly off the map to the east then you reappear in the west. 

The same for the north ---> reappear in the south
The northeast -----> reappear in the southwest
And ect.

That makes it fair for everybody and in certain situations it could cut some time off
of your long flight while you are getting altitude.

 

not only NO, but cod NO!!!

[waystin2]

Can someone explain what the problem is with a player off the map? I don't intend to be argumentative I honestly don't understand the problem, everybody knows your off map if you are. If anything having the red arrow seems like a more precise locator than darbar in that you know where in the sector the bogey is when the arrow turns into darbar. Also there is at least one map where there is only a half sector on the map and when you go into it you get the arrows, green and red.

Another issue is that on some maps you cannot kill an enemy plane off the map.  You can fire all you want, but no damage is registered until you re-enter the maps boundaries.

[EagleDNY]

Just set a huge downdraft all the way to the deck (and destruction) when you exit the map boundary.   That way if you are playing close to the edge you will know immediately when you are on the wrong side of the line - you suddenly take a huge wind-shear dive towards the ground.   

[Arlo]

Of course, we all say 'just do this' as if we know how easy it would be to make a map boundary do that. 

[icepac]

Just invoke a 120mph wind moving away from the map on all the borders.

If the map leavers did so accidently and are able to make it back, they earned it.

[caldera]

The level of sweetheartbaggery is already epic in this game.  Flying off the map boundaries should be rewarded with a loss of 1000 perk points in all categories and your plane and drones immediately destroyed.

The perk loss seems excessive, but I agree with the auto-destruct when you leave the map.  There can even be a proximity warning pop-up when you near the edge. 

[Dragon Tamer]

It could be something like in Battlefield where the screen gets greyed out and you're given a time limit to get back into the area.

[bustr]

Why not you get a popup message at 1000yds from the deadline that crossing it means an insta tower event. Cross it and you are back in the tower you took off from. No perks need be deducted since no one killed you. And if you were part of some group plan, you just screwed your group. Or you just wasted two hours of your life. This would protect those on the throne for an emergency deposit or fallen asleep from too much joy juice in their chair.

It will work out better if an upside is included for inevitable accidents.

Cons:

I guess B29, 163, and 262 pilots can run into it to save their perk points. But, they have to be willing to take the community's response to being that much of a coward. Players will work very hard at catching that on film to share in the forums.

Bomb and bailers would use it to not have to fly home so have their damage to the strat or HQ be insta erased along with any score points if that pilot crosses the deadline instead of landing or bailing over game play airspace.

Tie that to any aircraft shooting rockets or dropping bombs on a strat. I suppose it would promote B-25H mass attacks against strat and the HQ at least once to get around the penalty.

This would probably be a programing PITA for Hitech and he will just ignore this wish.

[Slade]

Maybe if they fly off map have a 200 broadcast every 5 minutes that shows their:

Plane (AKA type), map coordinates, altitude, speed, heading and pilot.

Example:
SYSTEM> Joe is off map: Lancasters, (-5,-2), 15k, 300mph, heading E.

[kvuo75]

........if you fly off the map to the east then you reappear in the west. 

The same for the north ---> reappear in the south
The northeast -----> reappear in the southwest
And ect.

That makes it fair for everybody and in certain situations it could cut some time off
of your long flight while you are getting altitude.

 

the asteroids map functionality would probably be fun for one or two days.

[Drane]

Alien abduction, a little probing, and teleportation back to launch base would work.

[Cheyenn]

How about this, if some one fly's off the map say about 1000 ft or so, the game will take control of ur plane and auotmatly returns u back to the map.

[bustr]

A popup message would be nice. Hitech could hold a contest for the content of that message. Autopilot take over and flight back to game airspace sounds like a good compromise.