#3673608 - 11/01/12 06:12 PM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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Last night I got a hole in my Spad 7's engine from a DFW tailgunner. After about 5 minutes I had insufficient engine power to do anything but descend towards home, and I shut off the engine (as it was redlining) to prevent fire...the SECOND the engine went off the message "Jedi Master was shot down by Ground Fire" (I guess tailgunners count as ground gunners??) appeared, and I was still at 1500m and gliding back to base with full control of the plane.
The Jedi Master Sounds like you got shot down to me!
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#3675736 - 11/05/12 05:05 PM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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"Shot down" in RoF means your aircraft was forced out of the fight. If your engine dies due to damage, you are unable to fight. However, if you fly on servers that use Vaal's stats algorithm, you will often find that credit is not given for every in-game shot down message. I just ignore the in-game message except to note that the other guy is damaged enough that he is forced down.
Also, that engine shut off tactic is a big reason folks with dead engines get shot at. If you're shutting it down just to avoid the kill message, that is gaming the game. So if you get shot when your prop isn't spinning, I see no room for complaining.
When I get oil or notice engine damage, I try to disengage to return to home base. Regardless of scoring, I know if I landed or not and I like to try to land safely (as I certainly would do in real life!). If I can, I cut throttle as I have found you can fly a lot longer with a damaged engine if you don't stay at max throttle.
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#3675890 - 11/05/12 09:00 PM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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That does bother me too a weee bit, I think the other person also gets a credit too though??
BUT I've purposely rammed people when out of bullets to down them, many times living and crash landing. Especially I do this in heavy bombers when someone is close on my tail and my tail gunner is dead... So I'm glad that rammers do get some credit...
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#3675968 - 11/05/12 10:43 PM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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My problem with ramming is it's far too unpredictable. This goes for other sims like Il-2 where you can do it as well. I've experienced it both ways, where I shred another plane and experience minor to no damage, and have been shattered like cheap glass while the other guy continues to fight with no adverse effects. "Shot down" in RoF means your aircraft was forced out of the fight. If your engine dies due to damage, you are unable to fight. However, if you fly on servers that use Vaal's stats algorithm, you will often find that credit is not given for every in-game shot down message. I just ignore the in-game message except to note that the other guy is damaged enough that he is forced down.
Also, that engine shut off tactic is a big reason folks with dead engines get shot at. If you're shutting it down just to avoid the kill message, that is gaming the game. So if you get shot when your prop isn't spinning, I see no room for complaining.
When I get oil or notice engine damage, I try to disengage to return to home base. Regardless of scoring, I know if I landed or not and I like to try to land safely (as I certainly would do in real life!). If I can, I cut throttle as I have found you can fly a lot longer with a damaged engine if you don't stay at max throttle. I hardly think shutting the engine off so it doesn't catch fire and result in your roasting alive is "gaming the game." Besides, I don't play on servers online, so that is no concern of mine. There is no human gunning for me. The Jedi Master
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#3676141 - 11/06/12 03:23 AM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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No! I wasn't shot down. I was so proud of myself for getting out of that situation and making it home in one piece. That's just ego. Let it go - who cares. It amazes me how attached some are to these kinds of things. Nobody is thinking about you or caring whether or not some message says that you got shot down. Just fly and have fun - you know what happened during the mission.
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#3676147 - 11/06/12 03:40 AM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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If you're shutting it down just to avoid the kill message, that is gaming the game.
I hardly think shutting the engine off so it doesn't catch fire and result in your roasting alive is "gaming the game." You should re-read what I actually said. I helped you out by reducing the quotes above to the relevant bit.
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#3678197 - 11/08/12 09:00 PM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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I've always considered my streak to say if I was really shot down, or just forced down. Land behind enemy lines due to engine failure or killed in the air/in a crash, and streak ends. Otherwise, someone can get credit but the streak still continues. I agree, kill streak is the stat I care about. I can get shot down, crash, engine die, whatever, but still survive. K/D isn't impacted until you get player killed and then it starts over. Regardless of game stats, that's how I treat it.
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#3679385 - 11/10/12 07:19 PM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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Aces High did something like that, and it turned out to be better. Instead of a global broadcast that someone shot down somebody, only the shooter-downer and the shot-downer would see it. The only global broadcast was "'someguy' landed with x kills." That's brilliant! The current chat system is too narcissistic.
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#3683072 - 11/16/12 10:31 AM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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...Being forced to play something technically brilliant but vapid and impulsive is boring and I can't stand it. Vapid is overstating the issue, though yes, there are some vapid players. I wouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. New MP missions on SYN server are exploring ways to get more historically realistic air warfare. Ultimately nobody is forcing you. Play SP, or if you just "can't stand it", uninstall and goodbye, though we need all the MP players we can get (vapid or not) so your loss from the roster would not be an acceptable solution IMHO.
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#3683142 - 11/16/12 01:53 PM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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I've not seen 10 to 1, obviously that's an exaggeration - but you can't influence players and what they engage. That is not game design, that is the players of the game. Multiple planes engaging fewer, or even single, opponents did happen in WWI.
Map rotation is the server operators decision, not game design. If you want a longer rotation, start up your own server.
The score screen is arbitrary values put together. How do they know what "influenced" the war - the person that bombed the most plane factories, the most airfields, destroyed the most balloons? You can't quantify an influence on the overall battle without setting some value for it and then it's going to be who destroyed the most what.
And again, this is how you want it to be played. Maybe other people don't want it to be that way. Personal choice, but you want to force how you want it to be on other players.
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#3685224 - 11/20/12 02:49 AM
Re: Does This Bother You, Too?
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Online "wars" or whatever title it could be granted, have been that way across many air combat environments. They simply have the atmosphere for it. The dogfight servers or whatever name they could be labeled, have always been the pick-up game type venue. Join, find a fight, engage, and either get shot out of the sky or return to base in whatever condition.
There has never been a game out there that has recreated the battles it sets out to portray, save for the historical scenarios where it's all setup and preplanned ahead of time simply because forcing people to play a certain style forces many away.
Having been involved in online air combat sims/games since Confirmed Kill v.93, the closest I've seen to having what you want is historical scenarios that take a lot of planning and cause a lot of gray hairs for those involved in setting them up. At least in those environments, everyone that is partaking in it is there because they WANT to be a part of that type of environment. Those that don't, stay away and stick to the 24/7 pickup style combat arenas where everyone can play how they see fit.
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