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Offline earl1937

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Spirit of the Game
« on: October 26, 2015, 04:55:20 AM »
 :airplane: I see a lot of good suggestions on here and some are worthy of consideration by HT, but I would like to see more "wishes" about improving the "spirit" of the game! Example yesterday, had a perfectly good 3 ship formation of 17's, but a head on pass killed me and I was moved to another aircraft and the "mother" ship crashed! There was no reason for that "mother" ship to crash because if it had a co-pilot who could take over, the aircraft could have completed the mission, if it didn't get shot down. I realize there is a "wish" on here concerning co-pilot position, but just trying to show how adding that position would improve the spirit of the game. This is basically a "air combat" game and removing one bomber from a formation only hurts the "spirit" of the game, which is to carry the "war" to the enemy, not to give the attacking fighter a "kill"!
I know I am going to get a lot of grief over this, so fire away!
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Offline TequilaChaser

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Re: Spirit of the Game
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2015, 05:11:20 AM »
I don't see why you would get grief over this, earl...

sounds great!   :aok

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Re: Spirit of the Game
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2015, 05:50:23 AM »
ive complained about that before. PW in buffs and trying to get home. Why cant the co-pilot just fly it??

+1 no griefing from me
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Offline Chalenge

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Re: Spirit of the Game
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2015, 06:45:35 AM »
It's psychological damage; when your copilot sees your brains all over his uniform he bails out.
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Re: Spirit of the Game
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2015, 10:55:53 AM »
If a 'two pilot' code gets modeled for planes that historically had such, there will still be times when both die in one pass. Probably happened a lot ... heck, explosive rounds and such, even if it disabled the second pilot might as well be dead. I reckon the planes I lost in my formations experienced such without the coding.  :bolt:
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Re: Spirit of the Game
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2015, 09:36:12 AM »
I just checked about 30 films. Nearly every cockpit shot I took involved filling the cockpit with something like 30 shots in a pattern loose enough to kill both guys. So, even if they change it I do not expect much difference to occur.
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Offline bustr

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Re: Spirit of the Game
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2015, 03:04:23 PM »
When I HO a B17 cockpit with my spit8, I watch both sides of the center post for the windscreen light up. Other times I'm not lined up perfectly straight and I see the sprites walk from one side across the other as I break off. In both cases the B17 explodes from that kind of head on pass.
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Re: Spirit of the Game
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2015, 03:06:54 PM »
Quote from: Arlo on October 26, 2015, 10:55:53 AM
If a 'two pilot' code gets modeled for planes that historically had such, there will still be times when both die in one pass. Probably happened a lot ... heck, explosive rounds and such, even if it disabled the second pilot might as well be dead. I reckon the planes I lost in my formations experienced such without the coding.  :bolt:

I've talked to several veterans who were sole survivor in the cockpit so only losing one pilot happened a lot as well.
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Re: Spirit of the Game
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2015, 03:20:05 PM »
Quote from: colmbo on October 27, 2015, 03:06:54 PM
I've talked to several veterans who were sole survivor in the cockpit so only losing one pilot happened a lot as well.

It's perspective, I suppose. Define 'several' and 'a lot', comparatively.  :salute
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