I fly bombers allot and you will rarely find me below 10K. I take the time to climb up to altitude usually 15 to 20K pick the angle of attack on the target to do as much damage as I can and take time to calibrate just right to be dead on.
In the past I had similar thoughts about rewarding bombers pilots for a job well done. Yes currently we get our name up if we manage to shoot down the few guys that come after us at 15 to 20K but that is not the purpose of a bomber. My goal is to blow your strat to ashes so you can't use them while taking as little damage to my planes as possible.
I understand some peoples thoughts on this regarding dweebish factory raids just to help score or the dweebish practice of dive bombing heavy bombers that in reality probably didn't happen, or at least wasn't a common practice.
But I do think those of us that really make an effort to use bombers as they were intended should get some recognition for doing this thing we do so well.
There for I'm going to try to make an equitable proposal for all involved.
What about something like this----
1. You must be above say 15K (modifiable)
2. You must be in bomb sight unless you are in JU's and other bombers with dive capability.
3. Strat factories would be excluded from this as even a sloppy bomb drop could hit a high % of targets. I know some of us wouldn't stoop that low to get our name on the board but I feel a good majority would. I would like to be able to include factories but it's just to easy of a target most times. This would be to keep the text buffer free from the dweeb factory runners.
(Only Field targets/CV's will be counted.)
4. Only runs that score 75% or higher accuracy will be shown (may be adjusted to as needed)
Therefor you should come out with something that looks like this....
SYSTEM:Your name here Scored 85% Accuracy at 17K in a B24J of -------------
Problem: This would probably have to replace the current #of kills message unless you don't drop any bombs (therefor no accuracy %) and just shoot some people down, fly home and land.
But like I said befor the primary purpose of bombers is to bomb not to be big multi engined fighter planes with guns faceing every direction.
Now Hitech/Pyro I don't know how hard a system like this would be to implement and it might not be practical but I hope you give it some serious thought for those of us bomber pilots that are really exelent at what we do.
I know there are those of you that will never be happy with any kind of system like this mainly because you hate people like me that love to fly for 15 to 30 min to splat your hangers to end what looks to me like a fighter stale mate. To you I say I hope to see you in the sight of my tailgun trying to stop me.
Salute all.
