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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Terror on May 19, 2003, 09:35:32 AM
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Here is what I did and is this gaming the game??
Upped a TEMPest to defend a CV that was ~30 miles away. I get over the CV and proceed to kill a formation of B17s that had just sunk the CV (I am a great defender, eh?). After 2 passes the B17s are dead, with only one ping to me. But that one ping had a "bad" sound to it, so I check my damage list. Sure enough, a one ping hit to the radiator. I am 30 miles away from the nearest friendly base, and if you have ever had a radiator hit in a TEMP, you don't fly very far without coolant. So I level out at 6K ft and set a heading the base. I keep a close eye on the temperature guage. I'm pissed about loosing my perks to one ping, so I start thinking "what can I do....?". Just as the temperature guage reaches max, I cut the engine and reduce RPM, thinking at least I could glide in close enough for a ditch instead of a capture. I notice the engine cooling off quite quickly so as the TEMPest slows down to stalling speed, I up the RPM, start the engine and go full throttle. I am able to get up to 200+ mph before cutting the engine again just before it "locks up". As I get within 5 miles of home base, I put the nose down and easily glide it into the approach and use the engine to set her down softly to a successful landing.
Is this taking advantage of a "bug" or "mis-modeling" in the game, or is this taking advantage of the capabilities of the TEMP?
Terror
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wow, this is quite a nice tactic! will try it someday!
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no, thats not a bug, the air flow will cool the eng, you can use that with a oil leak also, the oil will stop leaking when the eng is off. works with all A/C.
just remember to save a little engine for the landing/taxi.
i had the water pump quit on my boats outboard motor, and i used the same tactic.....run till hot , then shut down and coast , then run a little etc etc.
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Originally posted by Terror
Here is what I did and is this gaming the game??
Upped a TEMPest to defend a CV that was ~30 miles away. Terror
I think this begs the larger question...what's a USN guy doing in a TEMPEST?
(shakes head in disgust...)
Gainsie
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I do that too..but most of the time, you just run out of juice (alt).
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hiya terror, you probably don't know me, but i tangled with you last night, quite fun for the most part. You were a hog, i was in 51. I had been switching joysticks and had just reinstalled my ms twisty and upped. Funny thing happened -- any time i input right rudder my plane twitched left severly, making plane a POS. To make a long story short, you flew your hog quite nicely, and after my solution fell apart and I died [thks for putting me out of my misery :( ] I find out that instead of reversing the axis on my throttle, I had reversed the axis on my dang rudder! Oh the shame! I distincly recalled seeing your id as the victor....all i could think was 'dang, another good engagement lost to me *($*( with sticks' .
thanks all, just had to share that
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you did the right thing.
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Originally posted by bockko
hiya terror, you probably don't know me, but i tangled with you last night, quite fun for the most part. You were a hog, i was in 51. I had been switching joysticks and had just reinstalled my ms twisty and upped. Funny thing happened -- any time i input right rudder my plane twitched left severly, making plane a POS. To make a long story short, you flew your hog quite nicely, and after my solution fell apart and I died [thks for putting me out of my misery :( ] I find out that instead of reversing the axis on my throttle, I had reversed the axis on my dang rudder! Oh the shame! I distincly recalled seeing your id as the victor....all i could think was 'dang, another good engagement lost to me *($*( with sticks' .
thanks all, just had to share that
I made every mistake during that engagement. Both you and an LA7 had me at one point. It was pure luck that I survived at all. No skill on my part, just deperation and luck. I logged after that mission, feeling that all my good luck had been exhausted for the night.
Was a fun fight, had me sweating for sure!
Terror
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I did that sometimes as well, but most of the time, I just get impatient, cry a little & be done with it (auger) :)
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"Radiator is out ... what do you do??? "
I sweat.
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I do the same thing.
Works great with most planes.
I don't think its gaming I think its being creative.
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Its not gaming the system....its not a bug....its using all of your available resources to come up with a solution to get your hide back to base! Good Job!
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Yeah it's not gamey. I do it all the time.
I spent one Christmas dinner landed on a beach waiting for a tiffie to cool down enough to make the last hop over the water to home base.
(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)
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Radiator is out ... what do you do???
fly a jug :)
Bozon
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Good answer bozon :D
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try it in the dora once... shouldn't be hard just fly it and you will get radiator damage :rolleyes:
it overheats soooo fast its real tough.
1 time i HAD to set down about 10 miles from base.. guess what?
it took me 35 real life min but i taxied but shutting on then off the eng all the way home.
thats gaming the bug
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Keep running the engine, looking for a way out of the fight.
If the engine hasn't died by the time I'm landing, I'll shut it down and take her in on just the good engine. She's a vicious b***h when she loses an engine while landing, very likely to kill you.
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i run around the room screaming in terror calm down and proceed to watch it BURN
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I land
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Originally posted by john9001
no, thats not a bug, the air flow will cool the eng, you can use that with a oil leak also, the oil will stop leaking when the eng is off. works with all A/C....
I doubt that the oil stops leaking. If so IMO its a bug. It should a t leaast "drop" out of the hole.
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Depends on where the hole is I think even with engine off it still leaks some, but with the engine on its spraying the oil out of the holes.