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Title: Border Line
Post by: SPIKER on September 08, 2012, 09:45:32 PM
AH, Please tone down the CV ack just a little.  2 to 3 miles out is border line ridikalus!

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Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Masherbrum on September 08, 2012, 11:25:43 PM
AH, Please tone down the CV ack just a little.  2 to 3 miles out is border line ridikalus!

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Seems fine to me as it is.     :confused:
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: MK-84 on September 09, 2012, 02:06:31 AM
Ack isnt a problem at all.  Its completely predictable.  If you think it is THAT dangerous, do not fly in it. 
I do not like that it works off of percentages, as in no matter what I do, there is still a chance I will get hit.  Unlike field guns that are somewhat possible to adapt to and avoid.

Still, CV ack rarely shoots me down, because I am not dumb enough to tool around in it.

CV ack works like this:

It has a certain % to hit your aircraft.  This % is lessened if you:

Are farther away from the source
Flying at a higher rate of speed
Are maneuvering
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: zack1234 on September 09, 2012, 02:58:07 AM
So if move around more your safer :old:
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Scca on September 09, 2012, 07:29:01 PM
Bring bombers, they never get hit.
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Butcher on September 09, 2012, 07:31:35 PM
Bring bombers, they never get hit.

not true, bombers do get hit but their durability is far more higher then fighters. Fighters can barely take a licking and go down, bombers on the other hand are simply tough beasts.

Where a bomber can lose an engine or oil, a fighter can't afford too.
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: titanic3 on September 09, 2012, 07:55:03 PM
Getting killed by a random AI is never fun...
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: SPIKER on September 09, 2012, 10:25:25 PM
  Again tonight up at 14k with a 262 mixing it up with a mustang, all of the sudden I see one puff of smoke and next moment I’m in the tower.  There was no indication a ship was near me.
   While I appreciate your opinion and I understand you may not fly the same as I do.  I would hope AH would at least check to see if the settings have changed, because I do not think what I have experienced lately represent WWII five inch gunfire.

Thanks
Spiker
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: titanic3 on September 09, 2012, 10:37:14 PM
  Again tonight up at 14k with a 262 mixing it up with a mustang, all of the sudden I see one puff of smoke and next moment I’m in the tower.  There was no indication a ship was near me.
   While I appreciate your opinion and I understand you may not fly the same as I do.  I would hope AH would at least check to see if the settings have changed, because I do not think what I have experienced lately represent WWII five inch gunfire.

Thanks
Spiker


WWII AAA fire was even more accurate and dense. Still, this is still an anti-fun-smack-in-your-face mechanic that turns fighting anywhere near a CV over 3K into a lottery. IMO, remove AI puffy all together. Instead, give players control of more guns in one position. Ex: one player controlling the movement and fire of 5-6 guns at the same time.
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Tilt on September 10, 2012, 03:00:05 AM
Are the MA arena settings for aa > bombers the same as aa> fighters?.
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Slate on September 10, 2012, 07:33:50 AM
   Jet Dweebs are not allowed to whine.  :old:
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: doright on September 10, 2012, 11:16:53 AM
AH, Please tone down the CV ack just a little.  2 to 3 miles out is border line ridikalus!

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Spiker

No! No! We need it further out. How else will I ever be able to find an nme CV group without their welcome to the neighborhood fireworks show. The braille CV scouting method.
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: iKo on September 10, 2012, 11:57:26 AM
AH, Please tone down the CV ack just a little.  2 to 3 miles out is border line ridikalus!

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Spiker

1 if its because your getting killed just stay out of it, So NO its fine
2 if its to bomb them more, NO CV is to easy to kill as it is
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: BFOOT1 on September 10, 2012, 12:00:19 PM
   Jet Dweebs are not allowed to whine.  :old:
+1  :rofl
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: lunatic1 on September 10, 2012, 12:03:58 PM
  Again tonight up at 14k with a 262 mixing it up with a mustang, all of the sudden I see one puff of smoke and next moment I’m in the tower.  There was no indication a ship was near me.
   While I appreciate your opinion and I understand you may not fly the same as I do.  I would hope AH would at least check to see if the settings have changed, because I do not think what I have experienced lately represent WWII five inch gunfire.

Thanks
Spiker

in that case--it was probably the 88  at a base it has a 11 or 12k range--and alot of people have benn getting very good at it.
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Nathan60 on September 10, 2012, 12:09:44 PM
Oh I thought a young Madonna would be in here.  :banana:  Npot that ANOTHER one of these threads isnt appreciated. IN before that Hitech dood comes in and says somthing snarky
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: icepac on September 10, 2012, 12:36:01 PM
You can't avoid the cv ack if you can't see the CV.

Maybe make it visible once puffy ack engages your plane or something?

Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Nathan60 on September 10, 2012, 01:22:38 PM
You can't avoid the cv ack if you can't see the CV.

Maybe make it visible once puffy ack engages your plane or something?


If your seeing the ack you KNOW there is a cv nearby you dont have to see it  to know the flack is coming from somewhere. if you turn `180 you are pretty much guaranteed to be flying away from it
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Lusche on September 10, 2012, 02:34:43 PM
Oh, I thought the thread was about a former girlfriend of mine...  :uhoh
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Nathan60 on September 10, 2012, 03:16:29 PM
Oh, I thought the thread was about a former girlfriend of mine...  :uhoh

You dated Madonna? :aok
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: save on September 12, 2012, 03:49:06 AM
Why is the low-altitude of puffy set to 3k ?
Gameplay or realism ?




Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Paladin3 on September 12, 2012, 06:00:31 AM
I agree - turn it down. Flight time for a shell cannot be as quick as it is in the game. If it is it is flying faster than the sabot rounds I flung from my M1A2 tank! I can adjust my heading by 15 - 45 degrees and altitude by 3,000 feet and still get hit and taken out. That is allot of maneuvering! If I am doing more than that I am no longer traveling in the same direction. Ack is like having a SA-2 chasing you down, and the amount of first shot kills is pretty high.
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Rob52240 on September 12, 2012, 11:47:33 AM
The randomness of the puffy ack will rarely seem random.  It will oscillate between kill you everytime and never kill you.  GIve it a week or two and you'll see your luck change for a while.
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Scca on September 12, 2012, 11:49:43 AM
The randomness of the puffy ack will rarely seem random.  It will oscillate between kill you everytime and never kill you.  GIve it a week or two and you'll see your luck change for a while.

Field ack is the same for me.  Sometimes I could almost deack an entire base and never get a ping.  Other nights, first pass, cockpit shot, boom!

It's almost as if the setting change just a little bit once in a while.
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Rob52240 on September 12, 2012, 12:20:16 PM
Field ack is the same for me.  Sometimes I could almost deack an entire base and never get a ping.  Other nights, first pass, cockpit shot, boom!

It's almost as if the setting change just a little bit once in a while.

I think it has 2 causes.

1.  Distribution of random numbers leads to clusters and not an even distribution.

2.  Computers are incapable of generating true randomness.
Title: Re: Border Line
Post by: Daddkev on September 13, 2012, 09:49:00 AM
 :x :x :x :x I love serving a Big ol piece of Puff pie.......and all the whines feed my soul!  :devil :neener: :devil :neener: :devil :neener: :devil