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Title: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Vraciu on October 14, 2014, 12:26:47 PM
Title says it all.  Landed at Strats three times now....fuel farm, hq, and ammo.   Stopped on pavement intact.  Ditch.   Makes no sense.   Can we change this?
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Arlo on October 14, 2014, 12:40:25 PM
Why? Did someone tell you strats were bases and their roads were runways?
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Vraciu on October 14, 2014, 12:41:51 PM
^^^^^ You are ignoring this user.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Arlo on October 14, 2014, 12:42:57 PM
Apparently you aren't but I still think this is a rather useless wish. Tell me what it accomplishes.  :D
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Vraciu on October 14, 2014, 12:43:49 PM
^^^^^ You are ignoring this user.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Arlo on October 14, 2014, 12:44:35 PM
Apparently you aren't. ^^^^^^^  :D
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Tilt on October 14, 2014, 05:20:26 PM
A "runway" object has to be assigned to a field #

Strat objects are assigned to countries or zones within countries.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Vraciu on October 14, 2014, 05:40:51 PM
A "runway" object has to be assigned to a field #

Strat objects are assigned to countries or zones within countries.

Easy fix then.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Lusche on October 14, 2014, 05:44:52 PM
A "runway" object has to be assigned to a field #

Strat objects are assigned to countries or zones within countries.

I think it's just a question of tile being used. Until very recently (last year), we had been able to land sucessfully at the HQ. Since the HQ artwork was redone, you can't land there anymore because the new town there doesn't anymore have the same 'pavement/concrete' as towns or bases do have
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Chalenge on October 14, 2014, 05:49:17 PM
You worried about score or something? Just bail after your package lands and re-launch.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: bustr on October 14, 2014, 05:57:04 PM
The AH3 HQ picture Waffle posted didn't have anywhere to land anything. I wonder if AH2 complaints at this juncture are over things that may not exist in the new version? That picture doesn't look anything like AH2. If AH3 will be the next release, and AH2 as is, is stable, maybe a little irritating. Why expend energy needed for the next version release HTC doesn't have to spare with it's ultra tiny development team?

Personally I try to land on the big factory building just to see if I can pull it off.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Vraciu on October 14, 2014, 07:07:31 PM
You worried about score or something? Just bail after your package lands and re-launch.

Perhaps I am.

Doesn't matter.

Stupid aspect of this game that should be fixed.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: GhostCDB on October 14, 2014, 10:00:43 PM
You worried about score or something? Just bail after your package lands and re-launch.

He K/D is precious to him.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Vraciu on October 14, 2014, 10:05:24 PM
He K/D is precious to him.

He grammar no have.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Lusche on October 14, 2014, 10:18:57 PM
He K/D is precious to him.


If so, he's fighting the wrong battle, as ditching doesn't impact K/D at all.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: APDrone on October 14, 2014, 10:21:56 PM


Personally I try to land on the big factory building just to see if I can pull it off.

Doable..

(http://www.airmageddon.com/ClaimJumpers/goon_on_factory.jpg)

As far as the OP goes.. if you landed a perfectly good airplane at a location that wasn't an airfield, the disciplinary repercussions would probably alter your speech tones by an octave or so..

Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: GhostCDB on October 14, 2014, 10:31:40 PM
He grammar no have.

Notice he didn't deny said accusations, but instead he made an attempt to troll my grammar.  :lol
Einstein was said to have been ignorant in the art of English literature, yet he was one of the worlds greatest physicists.

Just saying....
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Vraciu on October 14, 2014, 11:01:23 PM

If so, he's fighting the wrong battle, as ditching doesn't impact K/D at all.

People can read.  A ditch ain't a landing....
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Arlo on October 15, 2014, 07:38:41 AM
Great men fight great battles. Petty men ..... well.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: pembquist on October 15, 2014, 09:22:34 AM
The inability to land at hq could be solved by hardening/bomb proofing HQ. (See multiple other threads and posts.) it just feels gamey bailing or ditching on "concrete", but the idea of making a return flight just seems like enabling the abuser.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: bustr on October 15, 2014, 05:36:01 PM
You guys get the point that the ship has sailed, and AH3 is HTC's focus now?

Note, the AH2 ubiquitous 30mm bug is simply sitting in the Bug Post forum. HTC has <1% of the number of programmers other game companies keep on staff. You want AH3 or you want to whine? AH2 is AH2, and this is the last of AH2. Burn a copy to DVD for posterity. I bet HiTech has issued Skuzzy ear plugs until the grand release of AH3, so he can get his work done.

Then by all means, bellow like stuck leviathans. HTC will need the feed back as always with new code releases.

Well at least this isn't at the end of Brave Heart. It's just the middle with the numpties and their scrolls.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Arlo on October 15, 2014, 05:48:30 PM
Well at least this isn't at the end of Brave Heart. It's just the middle with the numpties and their scrolls.

Dafty dobbers!  :D   :cheers:
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: pembquist on October 16, 2014, 10:14:13 AM
You guys get the point that the ship has ...............

We prefer to whine. It is our only creative outlet.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Lucifer on October 16, 2014, 10:29:43 AM
I'm not sure... Me109s never landed at a Panzers factories after defending it...
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Randy1 on October 16, 2014, 11:08:42 AM
There should be a nice chunk of cheese for the folks that break away from game play to fix something that should not be broken anyway.

Last time there was a 109 hovering over HQ shooting all the goons. I had great pleasure of getting the kill on that %&@#.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Arlo on October 16, 2014, 01:20:06 PM
May as well wish for one of these over each HQ:

(https://dieselpunksencyclopedia.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/flying-aircraft-carrier-popmech-may-1942.jpg)
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: earl1937 on October 19, 2014, 03:51:07 PM
 :airplane:
May as well wish for one of these over each HQ:

(https://dieselpunksencyclopedia.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/flying-aircraft-carrier-popmech-may-1942.jpg)
:airplane: RIFL
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Oldman731 on October 19, 2014, 07:24:44 PM
May as well wish for one of these over each HQ:


In the early 1970s, in college, I told Navy ROTC Marine-op people that I thought the carrier of the future was dirigibles carrying gyrocopters (the Bond movie "You Only Live Twice" had recently come out).  They took me seriously.  I kept that conversation going for weeks.  I haven't been able to take them seriously since.

- oldman
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Arlo on October 19, 2014, 07:45:45 PM
(http://airbot.net/gfx/tapety/gfx023_Macon_Curtiss.jpg)
Hooking up for retrieval on the U.S.S. Macon

(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h80000/h80772.jpg)

(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/89/87/f3/8987f3640f1c018d8660fb9b801e1154.jpg)

U.S.S. Macon cutaway

(http://www.laboiteverte.fr/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/avion-dirigeable-porte-akron-15.jpg)

F9C2 on maneuvers

(http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4516&d=1279416884)

Inside the Akron

(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h77000/h77428.jpg)

Another F9C2

(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g410000/g416534.jpg)

Trapeze viewpoint - Akron

Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: Arlo on October 19, 2014, 08:18:04 PM
More F9C2 Sparrowhawk images:

(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/50/5c/02/505c022cbbec0c0e6cd7c03a35798cda.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Curtiss_XF9C-2_Sparrowhawk.jpg)

Without the trapeze attachment.

(http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/261735/261735_1203631329_large.jpg)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_F9C_Sparrowhawk

I wonder if the U.S. Navy would have still been utilizing them at the start of WWII if the Akron and Macon hadn't both been destroyed successively in the mid 30s.
Title: Re: No Ditch For Landing at Strats
Post by: tunnelrat on October 20, 2014, 11:19:57 AM
How about we ask for a little utility runway/field at the strats?

They should have one anyway, I mean, I would assume parts coming in and going out would be using air transport at least to some extent.

Maybe have an uncapturable small field with only storch's available for take-off?

Would be nice for pilots defending the strats to land with their radiator hits (you know, if they fly 190s)