Ditching.... needs changing IMHO

[Wiley]

That would be stupid, too, to a degree.   


Crashing an airplane and spinning off onto the taxiway minus every part is a "ditch" more so than rolling off the runway or base by an inch with an intact aircraft.

But if you look at it from a gameplay perspective, it makes a bit more sense.  If it were more 'logical', and your smashed up plane was only going to get a 'ditch' if you RTB shot up no matter where you put it on the runway, what's the point of RTBing?  Same reward if you just get over the halfway line between enemy and friendly bases and ditch in the woods.

It's gamey.  The entire system for RTBing is gamey, solely there to get your name in lights and the perk/score bonuses that go with it.  Essentially it's saying you were more or less in control of your aircraft when you got back to base, little to do with real world logic.

Wiley.

[Vraciu]

Hard to argue against that I guess....

[lunatic1]

Where's the runway?



This would be something easy to change I would think.  Changing the small and medium fields to grass with a "good" landing determined by proximity (which is already in the game for other purposes) would make things more realistic and offer more variety in field types being both grass and other materials (ie: concrete or steel mesh, etc).

Putting my wheels on the concrete path at a VH base for a "good" landing is ridiculous

dude if you want grass fields to land on and takeoff on-then land on the grass and roll to the runway---if you want to take off on grass then roll off runway and take off on the grass field.

most american airfields had concrete or metal mesh runways....plus there is no reason to have grass fields when we already have concrete runways

[Vraciu]

dude if you want grass fields to land on and takeoff on-then land on the grass and roll to the runway---if you want to take off on grass then roll off runway and take off on the grass field.

most american airfields had concrete or metal mesh runways....plus there is no reason to have grass fields when we already have concrete runways

I didn't realize this was an American-only game.  Plenty of Luftwaffe rides I see to go along with Spit I and Hurri I types.....

[The Fugitive]

Its a game and the rule for a good landing is landing on the runway, not an inch off. Much like 3 of a kind beats 2 pair in poker, its the rule.

[kvuo75]

Its a game and the rule for a good landing is landing on the runway, not an inch off. Much like 3 of a kind beats 2 pair in poker, its the rule.

as has been said, there has to be a line, and our line is concrete..  

[WWhiskey]

If your not worried about score ,,then any ditch that doesn't result in a kill logged is good enough,,
 The game does however register a score and for that score to work, you must play by the rules,, landing on concrete is one of those rules!