Hitting the Silk

[MK-84]

If you bail from your plane the ".EF" command should not count towards a bail or a capture if you are still in freefall or floating towards the ground.  It should count as "you have been killed" if you .ef before your toon's feet are firmly on terra firma.

[Lusche]

why?

[Krusty]

The sortie's over. The kill has been awarded. You are shot down. Doesn't make 1 iota of difference if you waste 5 minutes floating or not.

[Babalonian]

If you bail from your plane the ".EF" command should not count towards a bail or a capture if you are still in freefall or floating towards the ground.  It should count as "you have been killed" if you .ef before your toon's feet are firmly on terra firma.

If implimented, I hope you're the first player to bail and, intentionaly or otherwise, open their chute at 32k.

[Volron]

I'll say this now, it will NOT matter to me one bit that I am killed if I ef before I hit the ground as I do not care about score one bit.   And I'm sure that my statement applies to a few guys here as well.

[Tilt]

May be he wants to shoot your chute and deny you the bailed successfully...... Also I note that bailing at low alt with a quick .ef gives you a bailed successfully when the chute would not have deployed in time todo the same.

[MK-84]

why?

For the same reason we have the option to bail out in the first place.

We have "bailed" "captured" "ditched" and "killed."  .ef currently puts you in the bailed or ditched category regardless of whether or not you would have even "survived" the bailout. 

So I can hop out of my plane instantly after it loses a wing at 500 feet off the deck and immediatly jump out and .ef and I will in terms of stats "survive" when I should be going splat.  If I want my toon to survive a bailout, I want him to actually have to survive it.  If I dont care a simple .ef just counts as a death so I can get right back into the action. 

[MK-84]

If implimented, I hope you're the first player to bail and, intentionaly or otherwise, open their chute at 32k.

If you bail from your plane the ".EF" command should not count towards a bail or a capture if you are still in freefall or floating towards the ground.  It should count as "you have been killed" if you .ef before your toon's feet are firmly on terra firma.

[Rino]

     So when you die, do you log off?   

[Masherbrum]

     So when you die, do you log off?   

[The Fugitive]

For the same reason we have the option to bail out in the first place.

We have "bailed" "captured" "ditched" and "killed."  .ef currently puts you in the bailed or ditched category regardless of whether or not you would have even "survived" the bailout. 

So I can hop out of my plane instantly after it loses a wing at 500 feet off the deck and immediatly jump out and .ef and I will in terms of stats "survive" when I should be going splat.  If I want my toon to survive a bailout, I want him to actually have to survive it.  If I dont care a simple .ef just counts as a death so I can get right back into the action. 

I'm pretty sure it counts the same whether you bail and float all the way down, or if you bail and .ef.

[MK-84]

I'm pretty sure it counts the same whether you bail and float all the way down, or if you bail and .ef.

You are correct.  Thats what I was asking to have adjusted.  So if you want your toon to survive a bailout, you gotta land on the ground.

For me its a realism thing for when I'm roleplaying mr. pilot as opposed to when I'm in fly and die mode.  It's like in the game red baron, I purposely played with the intent on surviving the war because the game allowed you to.

[icepac]

Landing my chute is very often the beginning of a big adventure.

[Nathan60]

Landing my chute is very often the beginning of a big adventure.

that is true for the first time ever in this game I got shot while in my chute last night . lol guess I'm going to start opening the chute low.  I usually just ride it out and auger in,and the first time I bail in a very long time I got shot by a guy  in a pony guess he was afraid I was gonna pop his radiator with my 45. I do agree that you should land  for it to count as successful bail. You cant end flight in a gv if moving why so in a chute?


Edit: imagine punctuation in above run-on at your own leisure.

[Nathan60]

On exception my be over an enemy base, all that ack trying to shoot my chute sometimes  allows others on my side to strafe the field with less guns firing at them, while its good for my side  as they face less guns its not really all that realistic(not that I expect this game to be 100%) for  ack to fire at a chute while a jug is  rocketing all the other guns.