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General Forums => Achievement System => Topic started by: BluBerry on February 18, 2014, 10:57:02 AM

Title: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: BluBerry on February 18, 2014, 10:57:02 AM
Last year I had the pleasure of shooting down Midway at 43,000 ft. It got me thinking that there should be an achievement for getting a kill fighter vs fighter at or above 40k.

Not because I am trying to promote combat at such an extreme alt, but because fighting up there is insanely difficult compared to the normal AH 0-20k range, and that seems deserving of an achievement.
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: Zoney on February 18, 2014, 02:18:43 PM
(Salivates)

 :airplane:
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: caldera on February 19, 2014, 09:45:44 AM
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Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: BluBerry on February 19, 2014, 10:49:17 AM
(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/Aces%20High%20Motivational%20Posters/rooks.jpg~original) (http://s343.photobucket.com/user/caldera_08/media/Aces%20High%20Motivational%20Posters/rooks.jpg.html)

 :lol
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: USRanger on February 19, 2014, 11:55:28 PM
(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/Aces%20High%20Motivational%20Posters/rooks.jpg~original) (http://s343.photobucket.com/user/caldera_08/media/Aces%20High%20Motivational%20Posters/rooks.jpg.html)

 :rofl :aok
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: ReVo on February 20, 2014, 11:38:40 PM
How about we encourage players to waste less time climbing and more time engaging in cartoon combat? -1
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: BluBerry on February 21, 2014, 12:10:06 AM
Revo, this is about adding achievements, achievements do not always correlate to the combat you want it to be.

Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: ReVo on February 21, 2014, 05:02:19 AM
Revo, this is about adding achievements, achievements do not always correlate to the combat you want it to be.


And I am saying I feel this achievement is not needed.
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: Greebo on February 21, 2014, 05:58:46 AM
There is a historical event this achievement could be attached to:

 On 12th September 1942 Pilot Officer Emanuel Galitzine in a stripped-down Spitfire intercepted a Ju-86R at 43,000 ft over the Solent in the UK. After hitting the German plane with a single 20mm round one of his cannons jammed, making accurate gunnery next to impossible. So the Ju-86R escaped, but operations of this type over the UK were immediately halted by the Luftwaffe. This was the highest recorded air combat of WW2.


Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: BluBerry on February 21, 2014, 09:29:32 AM
good stuff greebo.  :cheers:
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: Zoney on February 21, 2014, 09:49:33 AM
I'm sick and tired of guys who have more patience than me taking advantage of my lack of SA and killing me with an alt advantage. -1

Fixed  :devil


Revo is my friend :)
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: Delirium on February 21, 2014, 01:31:27 PM
I had to do this... it called me and I could not resist!  :devil

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff14/DeliriumP38/snooze_zps2ca0288b.jpg)
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: ReVo on February 21, 2014, 05:05:42 PM
Fixed  :devil


Revo is my friend :)

You say patience, I say compensating for a lack of skill.

I very rarely die to the alt monkeys unless I am already engaged with multiple cons. I would just rather spend my time fighting then climbing up to 25k+ only to have little girls like you dive for the nearest ack.  :)

Zoney is my friend. :)
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: USRanger on February 23, 2014, 07:58:07 PM
I had to do this... it called me and I could not resist!  :devil

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff14/DeliriumP38/snooze_zps2ca0288b.jpg)

Haha! :rofl
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: USCH on February 23, 2014, 09:04:36 PM
Flying and fighting at alt is a whole different ball of wax, I say +1. Also, you don't like guys flying at high alt? Tough sh$$, it's a game filled with aircraft, 50% of them flew at or above 20,000ft. I wish I could be so single minded as to say people who fly high are somehow in the wrong or dicks. No one is bashing you for flying low. What gives you the right to say people who fly high run to ack when low?
Title: Re: high altitude combat achievement
Post by: icepac on February 28, 2014, 11:38:00 AM
+1

I once took a yak9 up to 32,000 feet and was bounced and killed by a yak9 that was at 35,500 feet over our hq.

I was looking below me for dots since I figured nobody would be higher and was surprised when the same plane type jumped me and shot me down from an even higher altitude.

If you look at action reports, there are plenty of references to find the enemy higher than 30,000 feet or jumping the enemy from higher than 30,000 feet.

Flying high was done in the war.

I'm still looking to jump a 163 with a 163 and fight at super high altitude.