Historical achievements suggestions

[Cheyenn]

Here is a Historical Achievement by  Fighter Group: On March 24,1945, the 332nd FG flew the longest escort mission ever flown by the
15th USAAF to Berlin. The 332nd FG was suppose to be relieved by another Fighter Group, however that other Fighter Group never showed
up. So the 332nd FG contiune onward never leaving the Bombers they were escorting alone.
Once at Berlin, in the pursueing Air to Air engagement in and around Berlin, Roscoe C. Brown Jr., Charles Brantly and Earl Lane, each shot down
a Me 262 a piece. So how about this "Shoot Down three Me 262 in a P-51D.

[Babalonian]

Sorry if anyone suggested these before.

Successfuly complete a sortie launched and recovered off a carrier.  "Wings of Gold" / Naval Aviator Badge
Shoot down 34 aircraft while flying a F6F.  "Ace of Aces" / David McCampbell (Highest scoring US Navy ace of WWII, 3rd highest in US forces, highest scoring ace to survive the war.)
Shoot down 5,223 aircraft while flying a F6F.  Hellcat Mastery / Cat Tamer / "You've done this, how many times?" (The F6F in service during WWII with the USN, USMC, RNFAA were credited with destroying 5,223 aircraft in combat.)
Shoot down 4,950 aircraft while flying a P51 (B and D).  Mustang Mastery / Horse Tamer / "Riding the pony"

[mthrockmor]

Babalonian's idea of somehow recognizing the massive kills by Ponys and Hellcats is a decent idea, if that many kills are registered in one month.

I fly the 190A5 almost exclusively. I would be happy to find some thresholds in Butcher Birds, so Gallands 99 kills all the way to Nowotny. It would be fun to track how many kills you've had in a month by which ace.

Again, if that is of interest I am happy to track down names and numbers. Just let me know.

Boo

[Babalonian]

I wouldn't suggest within a month, or even a year.  The real pilots in wartime conditions even had a few years to accumulate that number. 

It hopefuly would have a hefty reward for earning it.  If it would likely take your average AH pilot, flying an average of 2-hours every day (or alternatively one or two days on the weekend), racking up an average of 10-kills an hour (a very generous rate), 261.15 days to earn that single achievement.  If bombing 5 ammo bunkers is doable in ~30 minutes for 10-reputation points, then to scale the reward for an achievement that took 261 2-hour days to earn will/should/could be huuuge.  Not that getting 5,223 kills in a F6F isn't already an awesome achievement in this game, but imagine if it got you 500 or even 1k reputation-points for it (or, alternatively, a unique star/symbol next to your name on the roster/buffer).

IMHO: I don't think there should be a lot of "big" achievements, but there shouldn't be a lot of "little" or easy achievements either.  A good balance should have a few on both ends of the spectrum.

[icepac]

Maybe one for kills over 30k feet?

[shoresroad]

Thanks for the list below, Pyro.  Please keep this updated and posted somewhere easy to find (maybe a sticky on this bb).  Have already printed this off and am starting to work towards these achievements!

Here's a list of the current ones in the game.

Shoot down 17 planes in 1 day while flying a Bf 109F-4   Hans Marseille
Get 80 kills in a WW1 plane   Manfred Von Richofen
Shoot down 9 planes in a sortie while flying an F6F   David McCampbell
Shoot down 352 planes while flying German fighters.   Erich Hartmann
Shoot down 34 planes in a Spitfire Mk IX   Johnnie Johnson
Shoot down 39 airplanes in a B-239   Hans Wind
Land 50 sorties in an American heavy bomber   50 Mission Crush
Land 25 sorties in a B-17   Memphis Belle
Shoot down 13 planes in 1 fighter sortie   Erich Rudorffer
Shoot down 3 planes in a sortie while flying a SBD   Swede Vejtasa
Shoot down 7 planes in a sortie while flying an F4F   James Swett
Shoot down 7 planes in a sortie while flying a P-51   Bill Shomo
Destroy 519 tanks while flying a plane   Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Shoot down 18 planes in 1 day while flying a Fw 190   Emil Lang
Shoot down 17 planes in 1 day while flying a Fw 190F   August Lambert
Shoot down 22 planes while flying a P-40   Clive Caldwell
Shoot down 87 planes while flying an A6M    Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
Shoot down 16 planes while flying a Me 262   Heinrich Bär
Shoot down 5 planes in 1 sortie while flying a P-40   Clive Caldwell
Shoot down 26 planes while flying a P-51   George Preddy
Shoot down 28 planes while flying a P-47   Gabby Gabreski
Shoot down 35 airplanes while flying a Hurricane   Pat Pattle
Shoot down 62 airplanes while flying a Lavochkin   Ivan Kozhedub
Shoot down 50 airplanes while flying a P-39   Nikolay Gulaev
Shoot down 68 Spitfires while flying a Luftwaffe fighter   Pips Priller
Shoot down 25 airplanes in an F4U    Robert Hanson
Shoot down 15 airplanes in a Typhoon   John Robert Baldwin
Shoot down 11 airplanes in a Tempest   David Fairbanks
Shoot down 36 American heavy bombers   Georg-Peter Eder
Shoot down 3 American heavy bombers in @1 fighter sortie   Egon Mayer
Shoot down 94 tank killers   Otto Kittel
Shoot down 38 planes while flying a German @heavy fighter   Eduard Tratt
Shoot down 40 planes while flying a P-38   Richard Bong
Shoot down 13 P-47s while flying a fighter   Theodor Weissenberger
Shoot down 11 P-51s while flying a fighter   Heinrich Bartels
Shoot down 17 P-38s while flying a fighter   Franz Schiess
Shoot down 19 planes while flying a Macchi.   Teresio Martinoli
Shoot down 11 B-29s while flying a fighter.   Nagao Shirai
Shoot down 4 B-29s in 1 fighter sortie   Tadao Sumi
Destroy 14 tanks in 1 tank sortie   Michael Wittmann
Destroy 168 tanks in a German tank   Kurt Knispel
Destroy 5 Panthers in 1 Firefly sortie   Wilfred Harris
Shoot down 26 planes while flying an F4F   Joe Foss
Shoot down 9 planes while flying an FM2   Ralph Elliott

[morfiend]

 Pyro,

 Has HTC considered some achievement awards for the TA?

  Such as I setup my Joystick.... the poindexter

    I took off and landed...  The Woodstock  {bird in charlie brown}

 There's many more I suppose but the purpose would be to encourage players to actually go into the TA and use it.



     

[Delirium]

I'd also like to see this one for the TA;

'Helping Hand'

Awarded by a Trainer to anyone who helps out someone in the TA or the MA that they didn't know previously, without expectation of a reward. It is extremely aggravating to see the community giving new players the wrong information because they think it is funny.

[morfiend]

I'd also like to see this one for the TA;

'Helping Hand'

Awarded by a Trainer to anyone who helps out someone in the TA or the MA that they didn't know previously, without expectation of a reward. It is extremely aggravating to see the community giving new players the wrong information because they think it is funny.

   










   

[jeffdn]

I'd also like to see this one for the TA;

'Helping Hand'

Awarded by a Trainer to anyone who helps out someone in the TA or the MA that they didn't know previously, without expectation of a reward. It is extremely aggravating to see the community giving new players the wrong information because they think it is funny.

Especially the Alt+F4 and enter three times advice. It's just not nice, and some sensitive folks might be extremely discouraged by that.

[kvuo75]

Especially the Alt+F4 and enter three times advice. It's just not nice, and some sensitive folks might be extremely discouraged by that.

the alt-f4 is even more lame now than it was before, because now it doesn't even work... aces high captures the keystroke and asks you to confirm. 

[Cheyenn]

This maybe an achievement, crash landing with no wheels {ur wheels shot up) or landing with one wheel down because of damage to the other one.

[guncrasher]

what about the midway achievement.

sink a cv using an sbd.

we dont nearly have enough cv/cruiser achievements in the game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway


semp

[colmbo]

The "All American"

B-24G of the 765th BS, 461st BG on a mission on 25 JUL 44 was credited with shooting down 14 enemy aircraft during the mission.

Due to our short span missions it might be better to make this simply shooting down 14 enemy aircraft from a bomber.  Fourteen kills in a single sortie would be a challenge.

[Greebo]

Shoot down two Me 262s in a prop driven fighter in a single sortie: - Urban Drew.
http://www.brianbatemanavart.com/two-for-drew.html

Or make it less specific: Shoot down two jets in a prop driven fighter in a single sortie.