Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Axis vs Allies => Topic started by: eskimo2 on January 19, 2003, 07:39:54 AM
-
If you flew in the CT while the Lives per Hour limit was on, please answer these questions;
1. Did you ever hit the limit?
2. If so, what did you do after you hit the limit?
(and what happens/message did you get when you hit it)
3. Did you alter your flying/playing style at all because of the imposed limit? (if so, how)
Thanks,
eskimo
-
1. Did you ever hit the limit?
no
2. If so, what did you do after you hit the limit?
(and what happens/message did you get when you hit it)
N/A
3. Did you alter your flying/playing style at all because of the imposed limit? (if so, how)
no
Note, I was only on for about 30 - 40 minutes or so last night. Flew 1 aircraft and 2 GV sorties.
eskimo
-
No, I didn't hit the limit. I flew for a couple of hours, only had time for a couple of sorties.
Imho 6 lives per hour is a lot. How long is the fuel endurance on the various planes?
Camo
-
Fuel in a hurricane (100%) will give over an hour and a half of flight, as far as I can remember.
I cant even remember the last time I hit 6 per hour.
Please, drop it to 4. This will produce the wanted effect.
erg
-
I hit it .. kinda wanted to see if it would work and kinda didn't fly too smart :)
I got a message saying I had hit my death limit and could not replane
- so I logged :)
I thought it'd been more than an hour but I didnt know the exact time I logged on so I could be mistaken. Good idea - good fun.
-
Nope, didn't hit the limit. Generally I don't go through that many lives in an hour even in the MA where I often fly a lot more stupidly than I do in the CT. I feel 6 lives doesn't really have that much of an effect if you fly halfway smart. And if you do a couple of bomber sorties (and do them properly, not low-level "kick me" runs) then they can take over an hour in their own right.
Four, as Erg suggested, sounds like it might have more of an effect. A good sortie fighter sortie in the CT I've found genrally lasts about 15-20 minutes for me, regardless of the outcome.
I was a little confused as to definition of life, and maybe that could be clarified in the MOTD. Wasn't sure if it was actual deaths that were counted, or rides (i.e., are bails and ditches counted against the total).
It's a great idea tho, keep playing with it.
-
proabally would have spent 4 in 20min doing jabo someone was using mannable ack kept geting me so I gave up and went to the MA.
-
Nope, never hit it. Probably came close tho.
Was in Jabo w/ Key and dido'd on manned ack. HAWK !!! .... ;)
We de-acked VH rtb to A12 rearmed returned to VH about 3 min later and all ack were back up ??? The only thing I can think of other then the regen being porked is that someone resupplied it ???
Need to lower it one or two notches ???
Jospe
-
I flew some stuka fighter missions, didn't hit the limit but also didn't get credit for any of the kills I made :(
I'll still go in there and do it for the fun tho.
-
i flew two bomber missions lost three plane each time. i think group bombing should only count as one kill but then again i like getting the three kills Catch 22. other than that i never met the 6 lives.
lowridin
-
I never hit the limit....but in this map you fly for 20 min to get to fite!!
-
Never hit the limit.....
oh, wait...
I guess it's because the limit it's active in a time that usually I spend to sleep (GMT+1 here) ;)
Extend the time limit full time (24/24 & 7/7) !!!
:)
Any news about the gunner mode?
it's included in the lives limit?
What about Ditches, bail, capture?
Anyway, I think that Life limit it's a powerful tool for Scenarios.
Would be nice to test it at full in CT
-
3 lives per hour is my opinion. And it shall be always on. I think anybody cannot die 6 times in a hour in CT. Or if he can, he don't have the face to tell it here!:D
Ps. I'm very often near the limit...:rolleyes:
-
Flew 3 Sorties tonight (1/21/03) during squad time. Well over an hours time.
1. no
2. N/A
3. Caused me to fly a little smarter but did not influence my engageing the enemy. Flew like I usually do.
COMMENT: Many of the newer guys to the CT are not up to the calibur as the rest of us. Might leave it at 6 LPH for them. Definately not less than 4 LPH.
-
Tonight I flew 3 sorties using the Ju 88 as a fighter. Managed 6 kills and 13 assists without sustaining any damage, beyond an ack hit that took out my left landing gear. I also flew several bomber sorties, killed A12's FHs three times. Again, no losses. Finally, with only two enemy players remaining. I flew two fighter sorties, shooting down everyone who came up (just 3 enemy showed up). Once again no losses.
It wasn't like I avoided risk, furballing with a Ju 88... Somedays you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug, I guess.
My regards,
Widewing
-
Never hit it.
-
Originally posted by Widewing
Tonight I flew 3 sorties using the Ju 88 as a fighter. Managed 6 kills and 13 assists without sustaining any damage, beyond an ack hit that took out my left landing gear. I also flew several bomber sorties, killed A12's FHs three times. Again, no losses. Finally, with only two enemy players remaining. I flew two fighter sorties, shooting down everyone who came up (just 3 enemy showed up). Once again no losses.
Somedays you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug, I guess.
Widewing
Once, I built a great big battleship and sailed across the ocean, sinking 200 U-boats and an aircraft carrier. Then I joined the army and killed Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Mihn before capturing Stalingrad and Chattanooga. Twice. After that, I invented ice cream.
:D
Splash1
the bug
-
Originally posted by Dennis
Once, I built a great big battleship and sailed across the ocean, sinking 200 U-boats and an aircraft carrier. Then I joined the army and killed Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Mihn before capturing Stalingrad and Chattanooga. Twice. After that, I invented ice cream.
:D
Splash1
the bug
:)
good one!
eskimo
-
NO
N/A
Well I was "aware" of the limit,
but I can't say I changed much.
-
Originally posted by Dennis
Once, I built a great big battleship and sailed across the ocean, sinking 200 U-boats and an aircraft carrier. Then I joined the army and killed Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Mihn before capturing Stalingrad and Chattanooga. Twice. After that, I invented ice cream.
:D
Splash1
the bug
ROFTLOL!! :D
-
Originally posted by eskimo2
If you flew in the CT while the Lives per Hour limit was on, please answer these questions;
1. Did you ever hit the limit?
Finally managed to get almost a full hour in last night, didn't hit the limit. In fact, to my surprise, I wasn't really even close. Probably you do have to reduce it to 3 or 4 lives to see an effect.
2. If so, what did you do after you hit the limit?
(and what happens/message did you get when you hit it)
N/A
3. Did you alter your flying/playing style at all because of the imposed limit? (if so, how)
No, I wanted to see what would happen if I flew like I usually do....
....well....now that I think about it....I did bail. Twice. Both times because I'd taken off from a field too far away from the battle, and wanted to get back quicker. In the Traditional Oldman Style, I had no idea when I should pull the D-ring, so I became a wet sticky ball the first time, and lost any time advantage the second time by floating forever.
- oldman
-
never came close. SHould be 3 or 4.
Didnt even think of it last night.
erg
-
No way did you invent ice cream. Good job on Adolf though:D
-
LOL I forgot that thing was turned on. Wasn't affected. I don't think it would actually affect anyone except the "fly till you die" type of gamer anyway, and those are rare in the CT.
VOR
edit: I agree with 4 being a more appropriate number. If a bomber pilot loses his flight of 3, he still has a chance to do something for the rest of the hour.
-
Nope, never hit it. Even got reckless and tried to BnZ with a formation of Ju-88's even but couldn't get guns on anything and nobody wanted to play...
It would have to be 3 or 4 to have an effect.
-
Bomber pilots using three lives in a formation attack.......I SUGGEST NOT TAKING A FORMATION NEXT TIME.....DUH!:rolleyes:
Use the two extra planes, use the two extra lives.
-
Please don't take offense but I think you missed my point Hawk. I didn't loose three lives... I finished a level bombing mission and then took the formation into a furball to see if could bring down a Spit with BnZ tactics using a formation. (Thought it would be "braggable.") I never hit a thing and none of Spits bothered with me either. After about four tries I got tired of it and landed all three bombers.
My point was: I'm an average or below stick. If 6 lives per hour were enough for me to screw around by bringing a formation into a furball, then 6 per hours is too generous.