Maintence Hangar

[BZip]

All good ideas but I don't agree. The more you add stuff like this, the game becomes less acurate and more arcade and in some cases, RPGish.

Next we'll have people wanting to craft and trade plane parts for lasers and photon torpedos.

Ok, maybe not that bad but let's keep some of the realism in the game.

[bockko]

As for the rest of you're equally moronic post about waiting overnight, why not lets have someone stood behind us with a gun to shoot us when we get shot down..no wait that would have to be an American only option.

Harharhar, this coming from someone with a queen and them thar princes

[Mister Fork]

I disagree BZip.

The whole idea behind the rearm pad is to allow pilots to refuel/rearm their aircraft without having to exit and re-up.  It actually GIVES a sense of realism too.  We all know it takes about 15 minutes to do a hot-refueling of a real WWII aircraft, but it's pretty nice to do it anyways.

Besides, if you're in a mission and you capture a base, you re-arm on the pad, you can continue to the next target. Fun stuff!

The idea of a repair pad for aircraft is just as valid. A possible functional pad could fix your aircraft  in timed intervals. Fuel leaks take 10 seconds, oil 30 seconds, missing parts 1 minute.

[BZip]

I have no problem with the rearm pad. If a pit crew can put 4 new tires and gas up a car in 15 seconds then I can at least draw some kind of real-life comparison. I know a plane takes longer but that's not my point.

Let me put it this way...

If I were to fly a mission, use up all my ammo and land my plane, I should not suffer any penalty. This is why I have no problem with the rearm pad.

However, If I was flying and I was unfortunate to get shot and I'm able to return to my base and land, I don't think I deserve to go to a maintenance hanger and wait a few seconds and re-up with the same plane.

Theoretically, I could fly back and catch the guy who blew half my wing off and blow him away (him being in his original flight and me being in the same plane). This doesn't make sense or sound fair to me.

[SOB]

Revvin is still gay!


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[vorticon]

well why not have it so that it does take 5 -10 minutes to fully repair a plane and while that particular plane is being repaired you have to up another plane or something...of a different type...(and i know i know now ill have the YOUR REMOVING THE PEOPLES CHOICE people are going to be on me for THAT...)
oif course if our kill streaks just kept going instead of ending when we landed or got shot down...if we did get shot down the streak could still end if we got captured of course...

[oboe]

Originally posted by BZip
However, If I was flying and I was unfortunate to get shot and I'm able to return to my base and land, I don't think I deserve to go to a maintenance hanger and wait a few seconds and re-up with the same plane.

What makes you think you're not re-upping with the same plane when you exit and go to the tower, BZip?   I have it on very good authority that when you exit, for example, a P-51B, then go quickly to the hangar and select the P-51B, the ground crew elves put you back into EXACTLY that same plane you just exited, except that they have magically repaired EVERYTHING that was broken on it in just seconds.    I know-- I've looked over these plane's exteriors and cockpits very carefully, and I know I always get the same dang P-51B, the same dang Ki.61, the exact same P-40E, every dang time.   I just don't know how they can fix it so fast!    These guys change an engine out and repair busted ailerons, flaps, and fuel leaks quick as a wink and without making a sound!

Even if I transport myself to a different field, those dang little elves magically bring my same old planes along and have them all ready to go for me, good as new.   I'd just like to see a little more realism with the repairs, thats all.   I want to hear the ground crew cuss and listen to their hammers pound out a broken piece, I want to hear the clang of tools thrown into the bin once the repair is done...

[Saintaw]

sounds like a good plan to me.

[Zanth]

If you could at least fix leaks that would be very welcome.  Many times I have wished to be able to fix leaks in an otherwise perfectly fine airplane.