Punish bailers

[Vraciu]

Keep in mind if it was one buff and not "3 kills", would you still chase'em "3 sectors"?

Yes.  And I want the kill when the banana bails at 2.6 to grief me instead of 2.5.  He is bailing because I am there.  I am the reason he destroyed his aircraft.  Give me the bleeping victory.

Frankly, the only reason why it isn't that way here is because that's the way it was in Warbirds, and gawd forbid we be like them in any way...

Yes I said "WAY" three times in one sentence.  Proximity rule violation.  Apologies to Maj. Chapman (USMC, F-4s Vietnam).

[Chalenge]

As much as it would inflate my stats when I fly at high altitude, I am not in favor of this because there will never exist a range limit that will satisfy everyone. And, frankly speaking, that is all it would ever be to anyone. Your stats are either ultimately important, or they are not. I think there should be another solution.

[Oldman731]

He is bailing because I am there.  I am the reason he destroyed his aircraft. 

Then you have the deep satisfaction of knowing you have served the Fatherland.

- oldman

[Vraciu]

As much as it would inflate my stats when I fly at high altitude, I am not in favor of this because there will never exist a range limit that will satisfy everyone. And, frankly speaking, that is all it would ever be to anyone. Your stats are either ultimately important, or they are not. I think there should be another solution.

There already is a range that satisfies no one except the griefer.

[haggerty]

As much as it would inflate my stats when I fly at high altitude, I am not in favor of this because there will never exist a range limit that will satisfy everyone. And, frankly speaking, that is all it would ever be to anyone. Your stats are either ultimately important, or they are not. I think there should be another solution.

Visual range would satisfy me, most bomber bailers dont bail until they realize that you have found them.  As long as they bail before you get to 2.5k out they know they can still tower without granting any kills.

[JVboob]

I can understand that people bail after bombing strats, it can be a very long flight home and people wants to do more fun stuff instead. But i dont get why people are so afraid of being intercepted, that's part of the fun with flying bombers and in heavies like the B-17 its rare to loose all 3 planes without getting any kills. A decent bomber pilot can easily get a 1:1 k/d ratio in a B-17 and a really good bomber pilot, like Havermyr, can get a 2:1 k/d ratio so bombers are by no mean free kills if the bomber pilots decides to fight for it..

havermyr? lol 999000 though thats a shootin dude in buffs

[caldera]

havermyr? lol 999000 though thats a shootin dude in buffs

[Chalenge]

Visual range would satisfy me, most bomber bailers dont bail until they realize that you have found them.  As long as they bail before you get to 2.5k out they know they can still tower without granting any kills.

Yeah, five minutes after it is changed (if that happened) someone would want it changed to something else.

[haggerty]

Yeah, five minutes after it is changed (if that happened) someone would want it changed to something else.

Atleast the majority would be happy with the logical change

[Zimme83]

I see no reason to why we should give away free kills, the only thing that it would change is that you got a nicer number on you score board. But hovering within icon range of bombers and hope that they bail isnt going to improve the game.

Up and intercept the strat runners before they reach their target, if he then choose to bail then mission accomplished..

[haggerty]

They arent free if you spent the time to get to him.  Its not always possible to get to the runners before they drop, we need better maps for that.  There is no incentive for the players to get back to base, none of them are going to be winning the bomber of the month award because they arent in single mossies.  If we arent going to grant kills to the people making these guys bail we need to make more incentive to return to base after a drop.

[Zimme83]

Then i want to be awarded a kill for every La that runs from my Brewster, i put up a lot of effort and they are denying me the chance to kill them...

[haggerty]

Your analogy is no where near relevent.  The LA is using his plane's advantage to survive the fight.  If he bailed to survive then you should be granted a kill.  Bombers use their abilities to avoid me killing them all the time, flying over 30k ft makes it extremely hard to get guns on target if they do any maneuver.

[Zimme83]

But i dont want them to do that so i demand that Hitec change the game so that it fits me...

If the proxy range is changed to icon range then the bailers will bail before you get within icon range, but it will prob also lead to that people starts to fly within icon range of a fight hoping to get proxies to pad their scores..

[haggerty]

Proxy kills dont help your score, only hurts the person dieing.  And it isnt a demand its a wishlist for a logical request.  Being granted kills for people that run isnt logical.