death penalty

[popeye]

I would like to see a penalty for a suicide attack.  If an attacker dies within 5 seconds of destroying a structure, object or ship, the downtime would be 5 minutes instead of the normal value.

[Cjpedrido]

hehe....all my sorties are "one way trips" resulting in murder or suicide.  I would never get to play.

[popeye]

hehe....all my sorties are "one way trips" resulting in murder or suicide.  I would never get to play.

The suggested penalty wouldn't apply to the player.  It would apply to the effect that the player has on the game.  The objects destroyed by a suicide attack would rebuild faster than if the attacker had survived.  So you could still fly "one way trips" all day.   

[Ramesis]

And how would u determine who is suicidind and who is not 

[popeye]

And how would u determine who is suicidind and who is not 

Anytime a player dies within 5 seconds of destroying the target, whether they auger or get killed by ack or another player, they decided to push the attack to the "bitter end".   

[Mongoose]

Anytime a player dies within 5 seconds of destroying the target, whether they auger or get killed by ack or another player, they decided to push the attack to the "bitter end".   

  Not always. I have had a number of times where I hit a target, only to get killed by someone I didn't even know was there.

[Vraciu]

  Not always. I have had a number of times where I hit a target, only to get killed by someone I didn't even know was there.

Yep.  I've been de-acking a base only to get a PK by auto at random.

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[FLS]

There is already a penalty for death.

[popeye]

There is already a penalty for death.

I'm guessing that you are referring to a score penalty for the player.  However, if the player is not concerned with score, it is actually more effective to make a suicidal attack than to try to survive since the player gets to immediately take off for another run without the delay of rtb.  Just today I've watched half a dozen attacks that destroyed objects a second or two before the attacker crashed.  I could name players that "make a living" with suicidal attacks to take out ordnance bunkers and radar.

Just seems like lame gameplay to me, but if no one else cares, then ok.

[FLS]

What if they don't care about score or downtime?  Then they can do it more often. You might actually increase what you want to stop.

[popeye]

What if they don't care about score or downtime?  Then they can do it more often. You might actually increase what you want to stop.

Not trying to stop anyone, just to mitigate the effectiveness of suicide attacks.  But is seems that no one cares, so.... on with the show!   

[pembquist]

I would come from the other direction, meaning: give more reward for landing successful destruction of objects. I would argue for giving more reward for landing with damage too. Honestly though, after awhile rewards don't matter too much.

[Ramesis]

Anytime a player dies within 5 seconds of destroying the target, whether they auger or get killed by ack or another player, they decided to push the attack to the "bitter end".   

Not necessarily, many a time I havedive bombed with 1/2 a wing and could not pull out 

[popeye]

Honestly though, after awhile rewards don't matter too much.

Exactly.   

[ccvi]

Turn it the other way around. For every minute alive after destroying something add 30s of additional downtime. When landing safely increase remaining downtime by 50%.