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Title: Bailing
Post by: Boat on February 01, 2004, 05:13:21 PM
When you're shot up and going down (it happens I'm told) what is the score benefit to bailing (a) over friendly territory or (b) over enemy territory where you are likely to be captured?
Title: Bailing
Post by: YUCCA on February 01, 2004, 08:30:52 PM
Helps your k/d ratio... If you bail ditch or get captured you get a fraction of a death.
Title: Bailing
Post by: Blooz on February 02, 2004, 01:38:46 PM
To see how the scoring/ranking system formulas calculate, you can go to the Aces High Home web page and select Help, Game Overview, Scoring.

You'll see that in the "death" multipliers listed the difference between bailing and living isn't much different from bailing and getting captured. However, there is a big difference between bailing and dying versus bailing and living.
Title: Bailing
Post by: jthemenway on February 03, 2004, 11:01:00 AM
what is a disco ?
Title: Bailing
Post by: TequilaChaser on February 03, 2004, 11:34:03 AM
Quote
Originally posted by jthemenway
what is a disco ?

A disco is a nightclub that plays that funky 70's music, [ahem] you mean disco in AH, don't you. :D

Well a disco in AH is where you have lost connect with the host and are dumped/disconnected from the server, instead of being reported as a death/crash/bail etc it reports a disco.
Title: Bailing
Post by: Adogg on February 03, 2004, 11:34:30 AM
my question exactly...or should i just RTFM
Title: Bailing
Post by: Furious on February 03, 2004, 12:58:03 PM
It is always worth it to bail out.  Please do so.
Title: Bailing
Post by: MaddogJoe on February 03, 2004, 04:41:21 PM
this is the for the best points, and perks....

Landing is the best,
ditching is next,
bailing is next,
dieing is left  :)

Not sure of the point/perk count, but have heard that you get FULL points/perks for landing, 75% of points/perks for ditching, 50% points/perks for bailing, and 25% for dieing.
Title: Bailing
Post by: Sway on February 03, 2004, 04:52:46 PM
Which is why I hose chutes... ;)
Title: I had no idea...
Post by: Adogg on February 04, 2004, 10:25:38 AM
....that dieing impacted perks so drastically.
makes sense of course.
I always land after a sortie so i've never noticed a degredation of my perks...yeah right.

thanks I'll remember to bail sooner to avoid the messy face-plants I've been known for.
Title: Bailing
Post by: HavocTM on February 04, 2004, 01:57:30 PM
Who knew? LOL

I have always just "died" on my missions, either through augering or getting killed.  I have much too short an attention span.

However, I have been trying to land this month or at least bail.  My stupid rank jumped 1000! I can't believe it!
Title: ...jumping ranks...
Post by: Adogg on February 05, 2004, 01:19:25 PM
...couldn't have something to do with the new tour could it? ;)

My ranking jumped 1500 slots. Frankly i just attribute it to my exponential improvement as a pilot since i started reading the forum. :D  :aok

Oh...and face planting a lot less.