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Title: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 10, 2010, 07:41:31 PM
OK, so I was on today, and rooks had least number of fields, and fewer players (at one point, but didn't last long) than the knits.

Tiger was perked at 32, and a knit buddy of mine informs me that the tiger was perked at 25 for the knits. Can anyone tell me how that works?
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: oakranger on February 10, 2010, 07:44:55 PM
bish conspiracy.   :noid
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 10, 2010, 07:57:59 PM
I'm not even joking. Can anyone tell me how the perk system works?
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Tec on February 10, 2010, 07:59:48 PM
I'm tired and mushy but IIRC ENY is based off total number of players online, while perk mult is based on "in flight" numbers.  So if they have less guys "in flight" their perk rides will be cheaper.  I'm sure Lusche will be along to straighten us all out tho.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 10, 2010, 11:05:13 PM
Seems a little backwards there. Just me, but seems like eny should be based on numbers in flight.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: CAP1 on February 10, 2010, 11:19:32 PM
OK, so I was on today, and rooks had least number of fields, and fewer players (at one point, but didn't last long) than the knits.

Tiger was perked at 32, and a knit buddy of mine informs me that the tiger was perked at 25 for the knits. Can anyone tell me how that works?

htc did it 'caudse you were a rook./
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: AWwrgwy on February 10, 2010, 11:42:47 PM
I'm tired and mushy but IIRC ENY is based off total number of players online, while perk mult is based on "in flight" numbers.  So if they have less guys "in flight" their perk rides will be cheaper.  I'm sure Lusche will be along to straighten us all out tho.

No.

This is the agenda you have been pushing for on how you think ENY should work.  (OK.  Maybe not you....) 

ENY is based on the total number of players per side in an arena.  The more players on your side versus the other two sides, the higher your ENY. 

The "price" of perk rides is adjusting constantly based on the numbers in the arena.  If you do not refresh your clipboard you will not see this adjusting. 

So, you can be sitting in a hanger looking at your clipboard for five minutes and it shows a Tiger for 25 perks and you launch and are immediately killed by a spawn camper.  You may lose more than 25 perk points because more people joined the arena on your side or left the opposing sides during the five minutes you were figuring out what to do in the hanger.

I call BS on the "fewer players" claim if another side had a smaller perk for the same gv.

Screen shot?


wrongway
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: LLogann on February 11, 2010, 01:05:30 AM
Would be better with screen shots.  Without them...... It's just words on a forum.

Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: dedalos on February 11, 2010, 09:31:12 AM
HT is Bish.  Home court advantage?  :D
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Shuffler on February 11, 2010, 09:39:21 AM
If you didn't fly perk rides all the time this would not be an issue.

You'd have so many perks in the bank as to never look at cost.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: waystin2 on February 11, 2010, 09:41:09 AM
Doh!  Shoulda took a Panzer! :D
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: shiv on February 11, 2010, 10:00:10 AM
HT is Bish.  Home court advantage?  :D

That must be why Bish get the advanced clipboard, FM radio, and the invisible helicopters for supply runs. 
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 11, 2010, 06:26:56 PM
I don't ususally take screen shots of perk prices, and then upload them to photobucket. IDK about sandwich.

I just wanted to know how the perk system worked. It was probably that I didn't refresh my clipboard, and so didn't know the perk price had dropped.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Spikes on February 11, 2010, 06:35:10 PM
htc did it 'caudse you were a rook./
Have a little too much to drink CAP? :)
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 11, 2010, 06:40:35 PM
Lol!!! didn't even notice that at first  :D. Is it true you only read the first and last two letters and fill in the rest? Just curious.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: SectorNine50 on February 11, 2010, 11:31:29 PM
Lol!!! didn't even notice that at first  :D. Is it true you only read the first and last two letters and fill in the rest? Just curious.
Kinda.  The letters in between the first and last can be scrambled, but they have to be the right letters or you subconscious won't figure it out.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 12, 2010, 06:19:10 PM
Ok, thats pretty cool. Gona try it on my friends  :devil.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: danny76 on February 12, 2010, 08:53:27 PM
I really don't understand ENY or the need for it. i know, i know 'refer to thread blah blah@ or check rule number 728, but seriously, this is a contentious issue. i pretty much only fly spit 8 and seafires, i get shot down by mediocre pilots in early war a/c, i sometimes shoot down good pilots in late war perk planes, including a 262 (once)

I hear so much on here and in game about its the pilot not the plane, i could up 262's every day and die all the time, same as dying in tempest etc. My point is that it is mostly about the pilot, and his ability to capitalise on the relative advantages of a particular a/c. I'll be the first to admit that I am pretty hopeless as a pilot, and that it's unimportant to a certain extent what you fly, good pilots in a spit 1 or brewster will wipe the floor with poor pilots in 38's and spit 14's f6's etc.

Why not just let everyone fly what they want to fly, if it's 5 to 1, you're most probably going to be toast, even if you're in a spit 14 and the enemy is in gloster gladiators
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Lusche on February 12, 2010, 09:07:15 PM
I really don't understand ENY or the need for it.

Maybe you would if you had been here before ENY was implemented ;)
For most players, it's no fun being massively outnumbered, but being massively outnumbered by an enemy that can fly what he wants (=110 noe hordes, Spi16's Temps and so on) is even less fun. Eny is just leveling the playing field a bit.

I hear so much on here and in game about its the pilot not the plane,

One can hear many things that aren't entirely correct. ;) It's about the pilot AND the plane. A Tempest or P-39D - It's a huge difference in terms of balance & gameplay.

it's unimportant to a certain extent what you fly, good pilots in a spit 1 or brewster will wipe the floor with poor pilots in 38's and spit 14's f6's etc.

Yes, to a certain extend. And that "extend" is quite smaller than you may think. I think I can consider myself being a above average pilot, and I do have good success in a Hurri I, but still it's a huge difference to being in a La-7, Pony or Tempest. For the average pilot the difference the plane scan make for gameplay is even bigger.

Why not just let everyone fly what they want to fly, if it's 5 to 1, you're most probably going to be toast, even if you're in a spit 14 and the enemy is in gloster gladiators

Almost all of the time everbody can fly what he want's to fly (perk rides aside). And if ENY kicks in, you still can: If the plane matters so much to you, switch sides, fly for the underdog.




Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 12, 2010, 10:55:14 PM
The "its the pilot, not the plane" thing doesn't apply to GV's. Tiger pwns, period.

Average tiger driver agains an average panzer driver: tiger wins.

Poor tiger driver against average panzet driver: tiger wins

good tiger driver against expert panzer driver: 50/50 chance the tiger wins.

In planes, its much less clean cut. I've seen great T-34 drivers that will charge a tiger, turret it, get in behind, and kill it before I've even got a shot off at it.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: The Fugitive on February 13, 2010, 09:12:55 AM
The "its the pilot, not the plane" thing doesn't apply to GV's. Tiger pwns, period.

Average tiger driver agains an average panzer driver: tiger wins.

Poor tiger driver against average panzet driver: tiger wins

good tiger driver against expert panzer driver: 50/50 chance the tiger wins.

In planes, its much less clean cut. I've seen great T-34 drivers that will charge a tiger, turret it, get in behind, and kill it before I've even got a shot off at it.

LOL!!! you havn't been playing long have you?  In the game the tiger isn't much and is easily killed by a number of other GVs. Do a search on the boards here to see the complaints of the tiger being too easy to kill.

As for the "its the pilot, not the plane" it is true, but more for the better than average pilots. ENY helps evens things up for the rest of us  :D
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Bronk on February 13, 2010, 09:39:34 AM
snip
Go to the DA, fly in the dweeb lake area and fly on the low number side.  You will quickly figure out the need for both perk and eny. :old:
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 13, 2010, 02:33:21 PM
Thats arguable fugative. If there are no AC attacking it, then the tiger can be, and often is a tough nut to crack.

I wasn't saying thats how it would be, but its the way to bet. I've been killed in a tiger mostly by being swarmed and bombed. Nothing can do much against 6 panzers, and an M4 swarming toward you.

Notice I never said a thing about the T-34/85 and M4. They can give the tiger an actual fight, but I have yet to see a panzer or a T-34 kill a tiger single handed. Yes, there are great drivers that can kill a tiger no mater what they're in, but I've never seen one get a kill alone.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: CAP1 on February 13, 2010, 04:25:02 PM
Thats arguable fugative. If there are no AC attacking it, then the tiger can be, and often is a tough nut to crack.

I wasn't saying thats how it would be, but its the way to bet. I've been killed in a tiger mostly by being swarmed and bombed. Nothing can do much against 6 panzers, and an M4 swarming toward you.

Notice I never said a thing about the T-34/85 and M4. They can give the tiger an actual fight, but I have yet to see a panzer or a T-34 kill a tiger single handed. Yes, there are great drivers that can kill a tiger no mater what they're in, but I've never seen one get a kill alone.

i've seen t34's and panzers kill the tiger. i know, 'cause i was the tiger.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 13, 2010, 06:24:17 PM
I know it can happen, what I'm saying is that I haven't seen a lone panzer or T-34/76 beat a lone tiger.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: CAP1 on February 13, 2010, 06:27:42 PM
I know it can happen, what I'm saying is that I haven't seen a lone panzer or T-34/76 beat a lone tiger.

it was a lone tank each time that got me.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 13, 2010, 06:34:19 PM
Had you been hit multiple times before then? Or were you both in fresh tanks?

If you were, then I will admit my position isn't as solid as I thought it was, but I still have some ground to stand on.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: E25280 on February 13, 2010, 07:36:17 PM
Had you been hit multiple times before then? Or were you both in fresh tanks?

If you were, then I will admit my position isn't as solid as I thought it was, but I still have some ground to stand on.
It isn't solid.  Lone Panzers kill Tigers all the time.  It is more difficult with the T-34/76, but doable (and I've both done and had done to me).  It is all about range and hit location.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: The Fugitive on February 13, 2010, 09:00:46 PM
I know it can happen, what I'm saying is that I haven't seen a lone panzer or T-34/76 beat a lone tiger.

Like I said, your new. Spend some more time in the tiger and you will find it dies as easily as any other tank. I suck in GV's and even I can kill a tiger in one shot with a panzer and have done it many times.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: LLogann on February 13, 2010, 09:30:48 PM
Agree 100% about the Panzer...... But unless they changed the T34/76 with the new update, it CANNOT kill a Tiger even at point blank range. 

Like I said, your new. Spend some more time in the tiger and you will find it dies as easily as any other tank. I suck in GV's and even I can kill a tiger in one shot with a panzer and have done it many times.

And before anybody tries to tell me I'm dumb for saying it, go offline, up a T34/76 and hit the H spawn, go and try and kill the Tiger on the base.  Come back and agree with me biattttch!
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Nemisis on February 13, 2010, 09:56:16 PM
Tried it before you you even posted. I COULDN"T kill it from the front even with HVAP rounds. I finaly got bored and gave up. Took like 3  HVAP rounds from the back.

Any good hit locations on the tiger? I know about the ones on the T-34's and the panzer. And any on the M4 I should know about?
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: E25280 on February 13, 2010, 11:05:27 PM
Best place to hit a Tiger is the side, not the rear.  Aim for the cross, and use HVAP.  If you are close enough, and hit at roughly 90 degrees, one shot will kill them.
Title: Re: Can someone explain?
Post by: Tec on February 14, 2010, 12:48:07 AM
Another tip for killing Tigers.  Shoot for the turret first.  One good hit in the front of a Tiger outside point blank range will most often not kill, let alone the bounce offs, a good hit to the turret will disable it.  Once they lose the turret they can sit there while you shoot them, or run for it exposing either their side or rear.