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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Sox on January 17, 2001, 03:34:00 PM
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Im sure in the long time that this game has been around that this has been answered already. But CV groups can have more than one gunner and thay work fine. I think it would solve this Buff problem some what?
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Evil Ace.
When a poor man dies, do not try to revive him.
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If I remember right this question came up when buffs were first given the capability to have a gunner on board that was not the pilot himself.
I think the answer was related to the way the buff guns were already programmed to allow the pilot to man the guns and all available guns would be firing at the target. Allowing another person to man the guns was a relatively easy task, but allowing more people on board to man guns would be somewhat of a major programming rewrite.
For what it's worth, I think that was the answer. Maybe Hitech will shed some additional light on the subject.
Ranger Bob
[This message has been edited by RangerBob (edited 01-17-2001).]
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Been asking myself that for a long time.
In AW3 you could have all guns manned by human players, and it was LOADS of fun. But most of the time buff raids consisted of 2 or 3 buffs with 2 gunners aboard each plane. THOSE were the good times.
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OK ,, give buffs more gunners , BUT ,, Buffs are too uber now . If you can add more gunners , it would be nice if we could kill a gunner without the ship going down . as it is now , gunners only die when AC goes down .
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this isn't a related subject , but when do I lose the Junior Member status ??
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I remember the day that HT implemented the single gunner firing all weapons that could be brought to bear on the target.
I was one of his alpha testers and had visited HTC just a few days earlier. I live in the area.
From what I remember, HT was trying to strike a balance between the uber "Oto" A.I. gunner in WB and no gunner at all. He came up with this plan to allow the pilot to fire all weapons that would come to bear on the opponent as replacement for the dreaded Oto.
I was online at the time and he asked me to call him via land line and he told me of his plan and wondered if I thought it would be a good compromise. I was then,and to a certain degree still am,primarily a buff jockey. I thought it was a grand idea so I can be held partly responsible for how it turned out.
What I don't remeber though is if "carry on" gunners were available at first.
That is part of the history of why we have the gunner situation on buffs we do now. As to how much of a programing "thingy" was involved I havn't a clue.
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With more than one gunner aboard, how would you decide which of the otto-aiming-firing guns was slaved to each gunner?
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More than one gunner would mean the end of AH as you know it. 2 gunners would be bullet-proof, provided the first question was answered..
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Paintmawson,
Patience weedhoopa... before you can leave the temple and be called a member monk you must walk across the rice paper without leaving a trace. Hmmm for you maybe we could make it 300 chute kills... ahh no no no... we can't do that.. you would be the master.... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) Really, I think you have to make 30 posts or something like that and it changes you to member status. Not sure of the exact number though.
Thunder
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Im with Tac. IN AW3 it was a blast and even with a full load of Gunners it was not any harder realy to kill a buff than it is Now in AH. I just thougth that the way the Buff is now it seems kind of Uber. Its a game tho and it was a question. Its fine ether way. Just have to learn to be paitent attacking them. It was just a lot more fun when you had A B17 full of gunners. THanks for the replys. <<S>>
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Evil Ace.
When a poor man dies, do not try to revive him.
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Originally posted by paintmaw:
OK ,, give buffs more gunners , BUT ,, Buffs are too uber now . If you can add more gunners , it would be nice if we could kill a gunner without the ship going down . as it is now , gunners only die when AC goes down .
Well, you can destroy a turret now, if the buff has 2 gunners wgy not let that gunner man a different gun?
AKskurj