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Title: collision messages?
Post by: killnu on December 19, 2005, 03:48:12 PM
if you get a white message saying so and so collided with you, he suppose to take damage...correct?

if orange saying you collided, you take damage?  
and if both message, both take damage?
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Schatzi on December 19, 2005, 05:08:10 PM
Thats the way it is.


But keep in mind that there are guns involved. He might have shot you before ramming into you, which would result in you getting the white text *and* damage (from his bullets, not a collision).
Title: collision messages?
Post by: killnu on December 19, 2005, 05:33:02 PM
ok.  so, no pings, only white text saying he rammed me, then a message he shot me down.  i went instantly to tower.  from my view, he shouldnt of had gunz on me, then again, he shouldnt of rammed either.  he may of fired and hit on his end, but once again, i heard no pings and no blood splatter from a one ping pilot kill that i normally get.  sigh

wanted to make sure i understood it correctly first. thanks.
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Guppy35 on December 19, 2005, 05:52:30 PM
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Originally posted by killnu
ok.  so, no pings, only white text saying he rammed me, then a message he shot me down.  i went instantly to tower.  from my view, he shouldnt of had gunz on me, then again, he shouldnt of rammed either.  he may of fired and hit on his end, but once again, i heard no pings and no blood splatter from a one ping pilot kill that i normally get.  sigh

wanted to make sure i understood it correctly first. thanks.


Had one of those two nights ago.  LA7 literally in my cockpit as he rammed me, at least from my end it looked that way.  I see my wings come off and one of his, down I go.  He gets a kill I re up and there he is, flying on his merry way with no damage.

I was all set to get worked up and realized how tired I was from work.  Decided against saying anything dumb and logged off, knowing I wasn't in the right mood for the game :)
Title: collision messages?
Post by: SlapShot on December 19, 2005, 05:56:36 PM
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Had one of those two nights ago.  LA7 literally in my cockpit as he rammed me, at least from my end it looked that way.  I see my wings come off and one of his, down I go.  He gets a kill I re up and there he is, flying on his merry way with no damage.

I was all set to get worked up and realized how tired I was from work.  Decided against saying anything dumb and logged off, knowing I wasn't in the right mood for the game :)


Thats it !!!! ... SKUZZY !!! ... ban him !!! ... he decided against saying anything dumb and logged off ... freakin' newbie.
Title: collision messages?
Post by: killnu on December 19, 2005, 06:41:30 PM
I logged off myself as well.  

This was just making sure I understood what was suppose to happen.  And figures what was suppose to happen didnt happen when film was running.  Maybe next time.
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Guppy35 on December 19, 2005, 06:46:01 PM
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Originally posted by killnu
I logged off myself as well.  

This was just making sure I understood what was suppose to happen.  And figures what was suppose to happen didnt happen when film was running.  Maybe next time.


It doesn't feel like there is a lot of logic to the event.  I can't count the times I've been rammed, only to look behind me and the tail booms of my 38G are gone.  How he hit me in the nose and took my tail off makes no sense.

Then again I've given up trying to make sense of anything connected to computers :)
Title: collision messages?
Post by: killnu on December 19, 2005, 06:49:34 PM
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Then again I've given up trying to make sense of anything connected to computers


Im slowly, but surely getting there.;)
Title: collision messages?
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 19, 2005, 07:00:41 PM
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Originally posted by killnu
ok.  so, no pings, only white text saying he rammed me, then a message he shot me down.  i went instantly to tower.  from my view, he shouldnt of had gunz on me, then again, he shouldnt of rammed either.  he may of fired and hit on his end, but once again, i heard no pings and no blood splatter from a one ping pilot kill that i normally get.  sigh

wanted to make sure i understood it correctly first. thanks.


I might as well get IN now.

Im not dissagreeing with you as I see the same things.
But this conversation is opnly gonna head one way and end one way and next week we will still be getting collision messages and dieing from collisions we cant see and didnt happen from our end
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Schatzi on December 20, 2005, 06:54:13 AM
Well, my guess is he was firing while very very close to you. Maybe even when on his FE he was 'inside of you'.


Those instant tower never saw/heard a hit on my pilot happened to me, too, when people are really close when firing. Maybe hit sounds are overlayed by the debris adn engine sound you get when hes so close to you.




DRED, youre not being killed from collisions you didnt see. Thats what people are asking for when they say "both planes should die in a ram". :)
Title: collision messages?
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 20, 2005, 07:22:55 AM
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Originally posted by Schatzi


DRED, youre not being killed from collisions you didnt see. Thats what people are asking for when they say "both planes should die in a ram". :)


Sometimes yea, I am
I dont mind the ones where it looks to me like we collided.
The infuriating ones are the ones where on my end we completely miss but I get a collision message as I spiral down to the earth.

By the same token and while less frequent I have also been in situations where to me it was obvious we collided yet didnt get a collision message. Or damage either

Dont know about anyone else but I'm also seeing (and not seeing) ALOT more collisions since last update
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Tilt on December 20, 2005, 08:09:48 AM
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Had one of those two nights ago.  LA7 literally in my cockpit as he rammed me, at least from my end it looked that way.  I see my wings come off and one of his, down I go.  He gets a kill I re up and there he is, flying on his merry way with no damage.


You say you saw his wing come off "and one of his " and then he has no damage?  I think you only see what his FE reports (except for gun hits) so
either......

You did not see his wing come off

or

He was  flying with  damage.(ie a wing missing)



also if you did not recieve a message saying he had collided with you............ he had not collided with you. (you had collided with him)


What to you was a ram was to him a close pass.
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Sketch on December 20, 2005, 09:14:48 AM
If both planes died during the collision, I would not care so much as we 'both' would die.  But when I get a message that 'they' rammed me and they fly away clean.... that is the part that gets you ticked off.:furious
Title: collision messages?
Post by: wipass on December 20, 2005, 09:21:41 AM
tilt,

This last week I took a wing off of an F6F, I saw it happen and I saw the F6F minus a wing.  Thinking that's him out of the fight I  carried on searching for other targets, 30 seconds later he is trying to run me down and by now he has two wings, there was only one F6F in the vacinity and I didn't get a kill message until I killed him for the second time,

strange things are happening

wipass
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Saxman on December 20, 2005, 10:00:43 AM
Tell me about it, I was gunning down a Goon last night, blew some chunks off him, including what looked like a big part of his tail, and he just vanished. No boom, no kill message, just "poof," like he wasn't even there (I've heard other guys on vox saying the same thing, guys just disappearing).
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Goth on December 20, 2005, 10:32:18 AM
I also am having a lot more of the "collision" problem. Two flights in a row last night resulted in instant tower transportation. I'm wondering if this is patch related or if it is more in tune with moving from savvis....if that has happened.
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Tilt on December 20, 2005, 01:17:47 PM
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Originally posted by wipass
tilt,

This last week I took a wing off of an F6F, I saw it happen and I saw the F6F minus a wing.  Thinking that's him out of the fight I  carried on searching for other targets, 30 seconds later he is trying to run me down and by now he has two wings, there was only one F6F in the vacinity and I didn't get a kill message until I killed him for the second time,

strange things are happening

wipass


I would suggest that what ever happened was not a function of the collision model.

If you saw a wing fall off then (I believe) its because your FE recieved a packet  (part of which originated from the F6f's FE) to say that it was without wing........


If it grew another one (and flew is if one were not missing) then the original data was in error........even if your hit sprites suggested that the wing should have fallen off.

I would mention severe lag as a cause but I have never seen dismembered AC reconstruct them selves even if I have seen severe lag apparantly allow wingless fireballs to continue combat.
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Clifra Jones on December 20, 2005, 01:24:27 PM
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Originally posted by ChristCAF
If both planes died during the collision, I would not care so much as we 'both' would die.  But when I get a message that 'they' rammed me and they fly away clean.... that is the part that gets you ticked off.:furious


Interesting, I've never seen the message "{gameid} rammed you" the only message I've seen are "you have collided" and "{gameid} collided with you"

So which message is it?

If it's "you have collided" then yes you collided with him (on your FE) and you take damage.

If it's "{gameid} collided with you" and you take damage then he shot you.

What you have to understand is that if all you see is the 2nd message, the dweeb may have been flying straight at you (on his FE), with no intention of turning away. You don't see it as an impending collision so you don't turn hard away. When he gets real close he starts firing. His FE see bullet hits and a collision, you don't see the collision. So what happens?

1. Bullet hits on his FE causes damage to your plane on your FE.
2. He gets the message "you have collided" and take collision damage.
3. You get the messages "HOST: DweebTard has collided with you" and "HOST: DweebTard shot you down"

On your end it certainly looks like you were killed by his colliding with you but that is not the case. You were killed by gunfire that you did not see because he was so close to you or even shooting past you from your point of view.

As I said in the collision thread in the bug forum, maybe HT needs to put a message "You were killed by weapons fire" in when you get killed. I might clear up some of this confusion. (but I seriously doubt it)
Title: collision messages?
Post by: Lye-El on December 20, 2005, 04:25:42 PM
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Originally posted by Saxman
Tell me about it, I was gunning down a Goon last night, blew some chunks off him, including what looked like a big part of his tail, and he just vanished. No boom, no kill message, just "poof," like he wasn't even there (I've heard other guys on vox saying the same thing, guys just disappearing).


I have on several occasions been tooling around in different aircraft. Things start getting real interesting. Usually a lot of movement involved. And then: HOST CONNECTION LOST. I am sure that I just disappeared on everybodys elses front end. Log back on and not have it happen again. Generally only happens every couple of months or so.
Title: collision messages?
Post by: DoKGonZo on December 20, 2005, 04:42:28 PM
I've had people ram me for no damage. Once I was in an IL2 I had the same P47 ram me twice and he took no damage.
Title: collision messages?
Post by: wrag on December 20, 2005, 07:29:16 PM
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Sometimes yea, I am
I dont mind the ones where it looks to me like we collided.
The infuriating ones are the ones where on my end we completely miss but I get a collision message as I spiral down to the earth.

By the same token and while less frequent I have also been in situations where to me it was obvious we collided yet didnt get a collision message. Or damage either

Dont know about anyone else but I'm also seeing (and not seeing) ALOT more collisions since last update


I actually WON a collison today!!!!!   1st one in I don't know HOW LONG!

I also had the plane pass far enough away that we couldn't have hit each other on my FE but I got collision and down I went and the other plane kept flying????????

Whats with that????  Thought you HAD to see the collision on your FE to take damage?????

Naturally I didn't have film on at the time.  Now I got a folder filled with film :(

My ping used to be at 280 but latley it's more like 210.  Dailup at 37.2.

No DSL or cable available here :(
Title: collision messages?
Post by: killnu on December 20, 2005, 09:02:39 PM
so tonight, there i was....blasting a la7 from <200, hit him real hard 3 different times and pinged him multiple other times, he flies on...turn to a ki84, laid 2 solid shots into him, he flies on, see both of them minute later in same fight, both come ho at me, hit them both right in prop, ki84 rams me(white message saying he has collided with me), both fly on, both loop over, la7 comes for another ho pass, i try to roll to left, no ping tower.  not a lot of fun.