Who should die in a collision

[Bronk]

i saw the white one....wouldn't the orange one have been right with it?

You still missed it.

[Slate]

   I know AH tries to simulate realistic combat but in real life collisions don't both aircraft usually go down? Maybe a rare occurrence with a fighter and Bomber like the ramming campaign of the Luftwaffe.

[Bronk]

   I know AH tries to simulate realistic combat but in real life collisions don't both aircraft usually go down? Maybe a rare occurrence with a fighter and Bomber like the ramming campaign of the Luftwaffe.

Try looking at the pics I posted. Tell me why the lead spit in the top pic should take damage hmmmm?

[NoBaddy]

   I know AH tries to simulate realistic combat but in real life collisions don't both aircraft usually go down? Maybe a rare occurrence with a fighter and Bomber like the ramming campaign of the Luftwaffe.

The collision model is not there to simulate real life. It is there to prevent opponents from flying through each others planes with guns blazing.

[Shuffler]

I can answer this once you grab this pebble from my hand grasshopper.

[CAP1]

   I know AH tries to simulate realistic combat but in real life collisions don't both aircraft usually go down? Maybe a rare occurrence with a fighter and Bomber like the ramming campaign of the Luftwaffe.

check this link. simulated combat mission.........


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE

[Zazen13]

And how well did that decision work out for Kesmai?
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Seems to me they no longer exist.

Hitech,

I'm fairly certain Kesmai's victimization by corporate skullduggery had absolutely nothing to do with their philosophical posture on the technological limitations of modelling air to air collisions over the internet...

[Dawger]

Sure turn it off.. Now I'll be able to drive through buffs guns ablaze. Taking no damage from running into em.

I don't think you read my post. Not off. Randomly off and on. A reduction in the dissatisfaction inherent to collision modeling but enough collisions to keep people honest.

I could be that way right now and you wouldn't even know it. I suspect it may be. If it is that way I'd like the percentage off to be higher:)

[Bronk]

I could be that way right now and you wouldn't even know it. I suspect it may be. If it is that way I'd like the percentage off to be higher:)

I highly doubt it.

[Karnak]

Not all collisions happen with that extreme amount of lag but I (Image removed from quote.) under the multitudinous amount of posts on the subject.

That lag was not extreme.  In fact it was quite moderate.

[E25280]

   I know AH tries to simulate realistic combat but in real life collisions don't both aircraft usually go down?

Check out at about 5:40 . . .

Long Odds

Clearly, in real life, the collision model is porked.   

[Slate]

The collision model is not there to simulate real life. It is there to prevent opponents from flying through each others planes with guns blazing.

   Most of the time collisions are head on. Also I've had the message X has collided with you and I'm toast and his (Usually a Spit) plane flies off into the sunset. A solution to stop collisions would be for both aircraft to be disabled thus causing pilots to avoid headon attacks. I can understand glancing hits but some use the head on tactic too much.

[Enker]

Not me, that's who! 

Thats the problem, you are "Not me" to everybody but you.

[sntslilhlpr6601]

The system as it stands is the best solution.  If you don't want to suffer collision damage, then maintain a safe distance from the other aircraft.  It could not be simpler.

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It's really not that hard to understand once you get a grasp of latency. Light travels extremely fast but it's not instantaneous, therefore what you see and what the opponent sees is slightly different. "Both go down" is simply not feasible on the internet.

[smokey23]

I got it I SHOULD DIE in every collision seems i do anyway wether its my fault or not. however from what i understand from all the guru's that spend their time playing this game its because, I have a latency in my protracted floppy whitch intern pulls GB from my twisted parodoqical ram and therefore creates a laguistic compromise in my bytes and cause me to lose a tail and DIE and i thought it was because someone ran into my cartoon plane...imagine that