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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Halo on July 04, 2002, 05:16:20 PM

Title: One More Time: How Does My Chute Kill?
Post by: Halo on July 04, 2002, 05:16:20 PM

I researched this thread about why a pilot gets credit for a kill with a parachute (NOT shooting other chutes, a separate more volatile topic), but I'm still not clear why it happens.  

The most interesting post was by HiTech in 1999 who said it was a bug that would be fixed in the next release.  

I had two kills in my chute last round and still am not sure why.  I think it is because while I was in my parachute, my opponent's plane crashed?  If so, why wouldn't my machine that zapped him be acknowledged instead of the parachute I escaped in?

Or could I be credited for a kill simply by being in my parachute when an enemy I had not engaged crashes near me?  If so, why would I be credited at all?

Or it is something else?  

Getting a kill credited to a parachute doesn't seem to please either the killer or the killed.  Can this be clarified?

Title: One More Time: How Does My Chute Kill?
Post by: Hortlund on July 04, 2002, 05:41:49 PM

It is called proximity kill.

When you were floating in your chute, the pilot of the enemy plane got scared or distracted by a girl or something and dived into the ground.

You were inside icon range and you were his closest enemy pilot.

Title: One More Time: How Does My Chute Kill?
Post by: GunnerCAF on July 04, 2002, 06:28:50 PM

A few nights ago, just before I was going to log off, I took a load of supplies to HQ, landed than bailed to run around HQ.  A Tiffy was kind enough to crash right next to me and I recieved a kill message.  I checked the score board and saw it have me a shute kill. :)  Yes, these are proximity kills when after you bail.

Gunner

Title: One More Time: How Does My Chute Kill?
Post by: eskimo2 on July 04, 2002, 10:26:07 PM

The instant you bail, your sortie is over.  IE, if you dump troops at a base, die, then it gets captured, you won't get credit.  

eskimo

Title: One More Time: How Does My Chute Kill?
Post by: Halo on July 04, 2002, 11:50:41 PM

Hmph, if those are proximity kills, I don't want them, and I don't think the dead enemy pilots want their demises credited to a floater either.

Why isn't this practice just stopped?  Doesn't seem to add anything to the game.

Title: One More Time: How Does My Chute Kill?
Post by: Fatty on July 05, 2002, 07:22:57 AM

Just kill all the chutes you see and it won't be a problem.

Title: One More Time: How Does My Chute Kill?
Post by: Hortlund on July 05, 2002, 11:05:23 AM

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Originally posted by eskimo2
The instant you bail, your sortie is over.  IE, if you dump troops at a base, die, then it gets captured, you won't get credit.  

eskimo

Really? I thought "alot" of people gamed the game by dumping troops at a base, auger, replane now in another type of sortie (attack) --> get base capture points  in attack sortie.