Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Chairboy on November 13, 2002, 02:33:40 PM
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Howdy,
The current game model doesn't give any good incentive to ditching versus bailing. In RL, a ditched aircraft could become a source for spare parts or, if luck was with the military, a repaired airplane.
In AH, you are treated the same whether you ditch or bail. If you have a perk plane, for instance, there's no incentive to risk a ditching versus a safe bail because if you die during ditch, you'll lose all perks and you don't get anything for ditching succesfully.
For a change, I'd enjoy it if ditches were treated better then bailing. If you have a perk plane, maybe a ditch would mean you would only lose 1/4 the perks instead of the 1/2 you lose for succesfully bailing now. For an Me-262, it could be a real gamble over whether the risk of ditching would be worth the 50 perk advantage to ditching. It would really become a test of ones mettle.
For your consideration.
Regards,
Chairboy
Comments?
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I agree with you!
also I think that you have to see your plane crashing when you've bailed out.
It's a shame that if I bail I cant see a proper crash :D
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when you ditch your enemy gets no kill , when you bail he gets a kill.
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Ditching doesn't count as a death in the stats! Thats some incentive.
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Originally posted by Innominate
Ditching doesn't count as a death in the stats! Thats some incentive.
yes it does...
try ditching near a con.. you'll get a "you have ditched" message followed by a "you have been killed by... " message.
+ when they land it counts in their kill # for the sortie.
i know this cause a osty ditched near me w/never having hit it and i got kill message + it allowed me to land 4 kills instead of the 3 i really did.
i have also spawned to the wrong direction and immedately "ditched" and somone got the kill on me
oh well my 2¢
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I agree, there isn't enough of a real difference between ditching, bailing successfully, bailing and being captured, and just plain getting killed. Ditching in enemy territory should probably also result in capture.
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I have to agree with JB73.. Last night I ditched a shot up FM-2 and was very happy with my self until...."you have ditched" XXX shot you down.
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you know what makes this worse....
tonight i was killing panzers at A1..
one of them was fester.
well every time i hit his turret he'd ditch (and i wouldn;t get a kill :eek: WTF) but the few times i got hit and "ditched" there would be a kill message......
I call BS!!! the system either isn't working right or something.
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I think it's time we moved on from the "easy mode".
When you play IL-2, you're really careful with take-offs and landings. First time I upped a Bf109 in IL-2, I ground looped it, wrecked it into a tower nearby and watched it catch flames upside down and blow up. Likewise, first time I landed a Bf109, I wrecked the landing gears and tumbled into a ditch. First time I tried to DITCH a Bf109, it failed and my plane blew up!
"Ditch" is a last resort move. AH pilots can pull it off in their sleep, but try ditching in IL-2 and you'd have sweat running along your forehead.
I always thought take-offs and landings were too simple in AH. If the potential dangers of ditching or landing in places that is not a runway are accurately depicted, people will start respecting the runways.