Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: senna on August 13, 2002, 02:56:23 AM
-
I landed a sortie today and was severly damaged. Made it back to runway landed gears up and slid. Ended up just a bit off the runway but mostly on it. Very close the main body was on the ramp and the tail was off. Server said I ditched. That sucks. HT, how about changing it so that landing anywhere near a field is not a ditch, is really a crash landing or emergency landing. In situations like this the aircraft did make it back to base safely however just totaled it furhter upon landing.
-
Senna of the ++++ Blue Knights ++++ Crash Landed 4 kills in a P-38L of a wreck.
There now I dont feel jeeped off.
:D
-
there has to be a line of demarkation somewhere - you were just unlucky enough slide over the line, but if the universe is just something good will happen to you to balance it out, like you will find a quarter on the sidewalk
-
hmmm, good point.
What about adding a landing zone to airfield around?
Example:
Set a Rectangular Landing Zone to Airfield around.
If you landed to the zone, system will judge you as "landed".
-
careful...next thing you'd have is nobody using runways anymore
-
Hristo, to be honest, how many WW2 airfield had real runways?
Many many times a "runway" was just a flat mud field or a nice green meadow depending on the weather.
So that why not add landing zones.
-
...and I thought I was clever ;)
You're right, Naudet. Changed my mind, landing zone is OK.
-
Hi,
Funny thing happened to me today. Spawned in a hangar which had been destroyed so I hit the tower button to avoid running over the dangerous rubble on the way out. System said I'd ditched. Has it always been that way?
Cheers.........Witless/Trikky
-
I like the idea of not only having a plane that can land and pick up downed pilots, but also having an airfield tender type of vehicle so that someone can drive and tow your bellybutton to the field if you run out of gas and land just outside the field. Of course, with senna's wheels up heavily damaged aircraft I do not know how viable this would be.
-
lol i had a wing tip off the runway when i landed this il-2 with 6 kills and it said you have ditched...............
-
Originally posted by NOD2000
lol i had a wing tip off the runway when i landed this il-2 with 6 kills and it said you have ditched...............
Why bother landing in H2H?
-- Todd/Leviathn
-
Lol, sad but true Dead man
-
Good point hristo. Landing on the ramp is still alot safer though since you will ensure not hitting hangers and ack guns etc... I would prefer a runway landing anyday but if I have to risk it, being off the ramp and on the field should be a safe landing. How about allowing a walk home as well. Say you crash just outside of the field and you then bail and walk on up to the field. That should be considered getting home safe also.
-
Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
Why bother landing in H2H?
-- Todd/Leviathn
duh!
claim your kills:rolleyes:
-
Originally posted by BenDover
duh!
claim your kills
Ah, of course. And so by this logic, since it was unnecessary to "claim" kills prior to v1.10, I must conclude that landing kills in H2H never happened prior to the latest release.
Right? Right.
-- Todd/Leviathn
-
I like senna's idea about walking home, just walk onto the runway and Land safely, if you crash nearby. :)
-
a good fraction of fields had paved runways, especially in europe. i think the coral runways in PTO count as paved - they weren't just large amophous area. in north africa the US engineers built over 300 miles of runway - mostly over 150' wide - in under a year. the only wide use of 'landing fields' i know of was by British fighters at auxilary fields in the Battle of Britan.
-
Fields on Eastern front were mainly grass
-
Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
Ah, of course. And so by this logic, since it was unnecessary to "claim" kills prior to v1.10, I must conclude that landing kills in H2H never happened prior to the latest release.
Right? Right.
-- Todd/Leviathn
stop being ignorant
landing with kills b4 1.10 wasn't the main reason people landed, it was trying to land their shot up piece of junk
-
Originally posted by BenDover
stop being ignorant
[/B]
Ignorant? I'm not the one who essentially argued a point that should, by logic, have been invalid prior to v1.10. And yet plenty of players attempted to land their rides in H2H prior to the latest version.
landing with kills b4 1.10 wasn't the main reason people landed, it was trying to land their shot up piece of junk
Clue me in as to why this reason no longer holds while "claiming" kills does. In any event, shouldn't the thrill of attempting to land shot up pieces of junk also be to avoid being shot down while doing so? And yet time and again in H2H I've seen people call, "LANDING DO NOT FIRE!" while attempting to land. Hm.
Explain to me then why exactly players try to land in H2H then. For points or stats? There are no points or stats. For "claims?" Maybe, but H2H is small enough that the other players will know who the hot shots are in short enough order that landing the kills really doesn't matter. For the thrill of landing a damaged ride? With the standard H2H convention of allowing landing planes unfettered access to the runways, "thrill" is hardly a word I'd use to describe the experience.
-- Todd/Leviathn
-
i guess you haven't tried to land a plane with a missing wing tip, damaged gear?
most people won't belive you got over 10 kills, therefore you need to land so it shows have many kills you got for other people
oh, and if its an FFA game, killing people landing is just a cheap kill, really requires alot of skill to shoot down a low and slow plane, doesn't it?
and i was saying you were ignorant because you were ignoring the fact that the kill system changed in 1.10
and you SHOULD be smart enough to know i'm on about post-1.10, but i guess not:rolleyes:
-
Originally posted by BenDover
i guess you haven't tried to land a plane with a missing wing tip, damaged gear?
[/B]
In H2H? No. Why bother? You still haven't answered my question.
most people won't belive you got over 10 kills, therefore you need to land so it shows have many kills you got for other people
[/B]
Which you didn't need to do prior to 1.10, and yet people still landed in H2H, thus invalidating your point. My guess is that people currently land post-1.10 for the same reasons they landed pre-1.10. What I don't get is just what those reasons would be. In addition, I've flown H2H with v1.10 and never landed a single sortie, but that didn't stop everyone in the arena from trying to gang up on me because I'd racked up lots of kills. The arena knows.
oh, and if its an FFA game, killing people landing is just a cheap kill, really requires alot of skill to shoot down a low and slow plane, doesn't it?
[/B]
Who cares if it's easy or hard? By definition, anything goes in a FFA environment. Part of the thrill of landing should be avoiding those who would deny you the pleasure. In that sense I could understand landing as a way to beat the odds or thumb your nose at would-be landing vulchers. However, as current H2H standards frown on vulching would-be landing planes, this rarely comes into play.
and i was saying you were ignorant because you were ignoring the fact that the kill system changed in 1.10
[/B]
And you're ignoring the fact that this hasn't really changed behavior; it's merely given you another justification for old behavior without actually explaining what causes it.
and you SHOULD be smart enough to know i'm on about post-1.10, but i guess not
And you should be smart enough to know that my original statement included all versions, not just 1.10.
-- Todd/Leviathn
-
ok, maybe i should have posted more, but it was late and i wanted to get to bed
Originally posted by BenDover
duh!
claim your kills:rolleyes:
AMONG OTHER REASONS
there happy?
ok, to be honest, i've got no idea why they want to land in h2h
although i've given 3 reasons:
claim your kills
pride of landing your badly shot up plane
rearm & refuel
btw, if you think you can shout landing anytime you want in h2h, your wrong