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Offline Chairboy

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« on: May 07, 2002, 01:25:52 AM »
I wish to suggest a new feature, pilot rescue.

In RL, when a pilot bailed and parachuted, he would presumably be rescued (fate permitting) by friendlies.  I suggest creating an incentive for pilots to land and pick up bailed pilots in the form of perks, and an incentive for the bailer to wait around and coordinate said pickup.  

Perks would do nicely, I imagine.
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Offline CyranoAH

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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2002, 04:28:24 AM »
(Ah, yet another opportunity of waving the "Catalina to AH" flag)

Sure, I'd love to rescue downed pilots in a Catalina (wink wink). ;)

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Offline Dr Zhivago

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« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2002, 08:53:54 AM »
But how many downed pilot you can pick up to catalina ?
Five, ten ???
Waving the " Catalina/Emily to AH" flag at life boat :D
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Offline Sikboy

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« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2002, 09:43:30 AM »
One night, when all my squadmates had logged, and I had been forced to bail near a friendly base, I thought "What the hell, I'm right on top of the base, I bet it's just over that hill." So I started walking to it. After 40 minutes I was near enough to see some of the battles over the base. In fact, I was pretty sure I was going to be there in just a few more minutes. Then the base was taken by the enemy, and I was straffed by an La-7.

The moral of my story,  Well there isn't one. But I sure coulda used a rescue. Then agian, how many people are going to hang around waiting to get picked up? If you use perks, doesn't this just open the door to abuse? A whole squad takes turns flying Big Blue, picking up their squadmates who just bailed en masse?

Just wondering

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Offline CyranoAH

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« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2002, 10:28:44 AM »
I'd say the solution to that gaming the game is just giving a percentage of the perks of the downed pilot to the rescue pilot.

A pilot who has gathered some perks in a previous fight is not going to risk it by bailing if he can make it back on his own.

Also, the rescue pilot only gets his perks if his comrade gets back safely to the base... so it's a bit of a compromise... sure it can be gamed, but the rescue pilot wouldn't get many perks anyway.

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Offline AKDejaVu

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« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2002, 11:08:57 AM »
Hmmm... dunno why you'd want to encourage a downed pilot not to re-plane.

The PBY and pilot rescue would be good for scenario type stuff (very small scenarios)... but not for the MA.

How many pilots get shot every minute?  Last tour it figured out to be about 10.

Just take a few minutes to figure out what you're asking for... then realize that 50 pilots would have been shot down while you were thinking about it.

BTW.. I'm all for adding all WW2 aircraft to AH and the MA... but the pilot rescue feature seems to be something people aren't really thinking through.

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Offline Dr Zhivago

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« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2002, 11:17:52 AM »
Well how many perk points you get when you bomb city and few hangars down ? Not much.... 2-4 ?
This pilot rescue doesnt mean you are picking every bailed pilot from sea/ground. And who will try to rescue few crying pilots when theres 10-20 enemy planes over taget ? This feature is working when you fly at deck and rescue bomber/fighter/gv pilot from elsewhere than middle of battle...

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Offline BenDover

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« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2002, 01:13:00 PM »
how about POW camps?


edit: replyed to the wrong thread,lol
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Offline HFMudd

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« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2002, 03:10:25 PM »
Of course, the greatest benefit of this would be that a whole new avenue of whines would be created.

For example: "&$^%! luftwhiner rookbishnit rescue plane vulching dweebs have got to stop cause they are ruining the game for me my girlfriend my dog and those little blues guys that have been following me around since tuesday"
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Offline SKurj

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« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2002, 04:09:00 PM »
player # 1: HELP SOMEONE RESCUE ME QUICK!!
player # 2: HELP get a rescue plane over here ASAP!!
player # 3: Need pickup!!  somewhere near A#!!
player # 4: Come on Someone come get me please!!
player # 1: Hurry up damnit!
player # 2: screw player # 1 please pick me up anyone...
player # etc....


No thanx

SKurj
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Offline Kirin

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« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2002, 06:30:23 PM »
Well, pilot rescue would be a great feature for those who play AH for the immersion and reenactment of WW2 arial combat.

I remember a day in the GMT TOD (dunno how many years ago... :) ): I was almost totally green back then but got assigned as CO (man, I didn't even knew what CO meant ;) ). Of course our forces counted many casualties and because TOD meant  ONE life surviving was No.1 priority. So, after RTB was ordered for all my forces I upped a C47 to rescue the poor souls I lead into misery. I was sneaking 3 sectors NOE to finally find 1 of em. The terrain was quite rough (but no killer trees back then), nevertheless I set for landing near the bailed pilot, a few seconds later I was sliding past him with no gear  ( :) ). (Heck, I have some screenshots of that somewhere) Well, since we still wanted to survive, I called in another goon to rescue us. One of the RTB'ed pilots (err, one of the Finish aces... yeah, right Camo it was!!) did so and came to rescue us. He landed near us and we pretended to enter as we went back to tower. The flight home was about the funniest time I ever had in AH - singing, ranting, joking... :D

Well, but it might be true that this kind of "useless" feature can't be integrated... MA is nothing more than
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« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2002, 06:40:36 PM »
This would rock.  There are quite a few stories of pilots landing (even in single engine fighters) to pickup a downed buddy.
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« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2002, 12:10:12 PM »
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Originally posted by funkedup
This would rock.  There are quite a few stories of pilots landing (even in single engine fighters) to pickup a downed buddy.


where the hell would he sit?!?! The wing?!?!:eek:

tow rope?:confused:
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« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2002, 12:23:04 PM »
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where the hell would he sit?!?! The wing?!?!:eek:

tow rope?:confused:
In the Gulf War, an A-10 pilot landed to pick up another A-10 pilot that had been downed.  One sat on the other's lap.

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Offline Dr Zhivago

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« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2002, 12:28:32 PM »
Usually they stuffed passenger or two into the hull of plane and bound more into the wings. So single plane could carry four person...
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