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Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Yeager on March 09, 2001, 08:38:00 PM
Is there any interest in awarding perk points for killing high ranking pilots?  Perhaps if you kill a top ten (or top 100, whatever...) pilot you get a YTBD perk award.

I know perks are a somewhat dynamic and controversial subject.  Im just wondering if there is any interest in getting perk rewards for success against pilots?

Imagine the joy of killing xxxxx and getting 5 perks or something........or xxxx and getting 10 perks.

Might make for a more psychologically interesting arena.

Yeager


 
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Thog on March 09, 2001, 09:28:00 PM
Yeager, do you really want posse's of gits chasing someone all over the map, through ack, rain, storms, hangers, furballs and orbital bombardment, because they want to get the points from killing them? Like a gigantic game of 'Highlander'? "There can be only one!! <ZOT!!>"? People like Drex afriad to take off, because as soon as they score a kill every knobb within 15 miles comes roaring in to make sure they NEVER MAKE IT HOME ALIVE....

I'm in no danger, but still....

Thog
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: iculus on March 09, 2001, 09:31:00 PM
Great idea Yeager.  I was thinking something similar.  In essence it would be nice to have some sort of perk point coefficient based on the rank of the shooter and the "shot" (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)  Another idea would be to have higher perk prices for the higher ranking pilots.

Why is this good?  It will help solve the problem that has been posted all over the board:  The top pilots are more likely to to get the perks.

<S>IC
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Torgo on March 09, 2001, 09:36:00 PM
 
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Originally posted by iculus:

Why is this good?  It will help solve the problem that has been posted all over the board:  The top pilots are more likely to to get the perks.

As I've pointed out all over the board, this is a non-problem.

Why? Because it's a hopeless waste of time to try to GET perks in a perk plane, or the top unperked AC.......CHog, La-7, Niki, Dora, etc.

This is constantly forgotten (and deliberately ignored in the anti-AH propaganda found on WB boards, etc.)

For a top pilot TO fly perks all the time, he's got to spend MOST of his time flying non G10 109s, P-47s, etc.

So actually the perk system levels the playing field, overall.

Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: iculus on March 09, 2001, 11:46:00 PM
Good point...
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Midnight on March 09, 2001, 11:49:00 PM
Who needs perks?

FLY the P-51D Mustang, Baby  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

2 kills of Ta-152. No deaths by Ta-152
1 kill of Ar-234. No deaths by Ar-234



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"...it's better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it." -Christian Slater True Romance
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Dead Man Flying on March 10, 2001, 12:06:00 AM
 
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Originally posted by Midnight:
1 kill of Ar-234. No deaths by Ar-234

You're bragging about that?  What was he gonna do... ram you?   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

-- Todd/DMF
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: lazs on March 10, 2001, 09:47:00 AM
yeager answers the question  "is there a way to make the perk system even more idiotic?".
lazs
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Jigster on March 10, 2001, 11:44:00 AM
I've actually killed some in an Arado...

I took my empty 234 and rammed him, only way to catch him  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Both of us got insta-death, but eh it was 70 points well spent.

Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Hangtime on March 10, 2001, 12:30:00 PM
Killin perk planes is fun. Maybe we should get more points fer killin perk chutes?

(did i say that??)

 

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Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: air_guard on March 10, 2001, 01:12:00 PM
lol scoring better in killing high ranked people will make the whole arena chasing some few planes from <a> to (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
and that goes for the name instead of plane toejam also seen that in FA and it dont works at all.
better plane less points and so on more fair.

airguard
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Hooligan on March 12, 2001, 12:25:00 AM
Thog:

People hunt drex all the time.  I don't think it bothers him.  It's more like "meals on wheels".

Hooligan
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: -aper- on March 12, 2001, 12:33:00 AM
Should depends on streak of killed pilot

If his streak was 0 you get 0 perk points
If his streak was 70 you get 70 perk points

fair enough  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: funked on March 12, 2001, 12:34:00 AM
I played a game called "Tanarus" where the score for killing a player was based on how many points he had scored since his last death.  The "bounty" for each player was displayed in the roster.  The arenas were pretty small (16 people) so if you saw a big bounty and you knew the guy's style, it was quite possible to set up an ambush and take his bounty.  But then of course his bounty was added to yours, and you became the new target of the hunters.   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Thog on March 12, 2001, 03:16:00 AM
Hooligan,

Please leave me my little fantasies.

Thog

Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Ripsnort on March 12, 2001, 07:40:00 AM
Just award the killer the points of the perk plane cost, kinda like commadering his A/C.

If you shoot down a perkie with a non-perkie plane, you get the (50-70) points?  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Wilbus on March 12, 2001, 07:58:00 AM
 
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Why? Because it's a hopeless waste of time to try to GET perks in a perk plane, or the top unperked AC.......CHog, La-7, Niki, Dora, etc.

Actually, gettin pekrs in those top planes with around 20 points or lower isn't that hard. I get about 3-10 every sortie in my Dora, would be about the same in the P51.
It's not about quality, it's the quantity.

Yeagers Idea sounds great, get more points for killing a pilor wich is ranked top 100.

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Rasmus "Wilbus" Mattsson
III/JG5 Eismeer



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Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: wolf37 on March 12, 2001, 05:45:00 PM
hi all:

I have placed a post on this before kinda. why not set up some kinda bounty system. it cant be that hard to do can it.

say I want to put a bounty on.. oh lets say Hangtime, just because.

I go to place bounty location.

type in Hangtimes name.

type in the amount of perk points I want to plave on his head.

hit enter.

now Hangtime is a wanted man.

Now if anybody else want to add to the bounty they can do so by going to bounty place, type in Hangtimes name, and add to the bounty.

Now with this system, there is no complaning about how many perk points somebody is worth or how it should be set up. I can place as many perk points on Hangtimes head as I want as long as I have that many to pay. the points are taken from my perk points account right away. and who ever kills Hangtime gets the points. its simple, it could work, and it could be fun.

so what do you all think.



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Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Fishu on March 12, 2001, 06:11:00 PM
 
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Originally posted by -aper-:
Should depends on streak of killed pilot

If his streak was 0 you get 0 perk points
If his streak was 70 you get 70 perk points

fair enough   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

..I could already see myself in 'most wanted' list.

..or maybe not, nowadays im not much after such stress of keeping streak. (eventually I would kill myself on purpose just to cut that stressing streak  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif))
Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Vulcan on March 12, 2001, 07:21:00 PM
Ohhhhh man I got EGO-ENVY!!!

 
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Originally posted by Fishu:
..I could already see myself in 'most wanted' list.

..or maybe not, nowadays im not much after such stress of keeping streak. (eventually I would kill myself on purpose just to cut that stressing streak   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif))

Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Fishu on March 12, 2001, 07:55:00 PM
 
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Originally posted by Vulcan:
Ohhhhh man I got EGO-ENVY!!!

 

If you wan't some ego-envy, how about looking at Citabria.
Then you forget all that.

I can't even joke about things that someone did throw in as a joke, without someone flaming me.
Fact is that I've been long time streak hogger, since thats what has been my understandment of 'fun'

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Title: Award perks for success against specific pilots
Post by: Voss on March 12, 2001, 08:47:00 PM
I would most surely accept perks for killing guys that 'outrank' me.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/cool.gif)

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13th TAS